Gamerace said:
Regardless of your feelings about WiiU, my point is still valid. PS3 & 360 are so close in sales that the winner will ultimately be decided by who supports their legacy system longest (almost certain Sony) |
PS3 and 360 are so close that it doesn't matter who is second or third. Statistically these two consoles are tied this generation.
I don't know how you can say long term support is a key to break a tie. How are you going to measure long term support if the next gen xbox is fully backwards compatible and the PS4 isn't? or vice versa? Wouldn't most potential owners buy the new console rather than the old console so they can play both sets of games? It is highly likely that MS will have backwards compatibility because of their architecture. Sony is shifting architectures drastically next gen which makes backwards compatibility less likely.
This is an victory for both Microsoft and Nintendo, because last gen, the PS2 was well over a 150,000,000 consoles. This gen Sony will probably barely clear half of that. Whereas Microsoft and Nintendo over doubled their sales. The momentum is clearly not with Sony this generation.
