sunK1D said:
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I normally discourage those but people seem to think that because of the overall bad financial standing of the company that they can't spend money on anything now. As in they won't advertise or have to sell PS4 at a profit, which I think is ridiculous. Personally I'm not predicting anything as this generation proved the previous one means very little in determining the next. People who make safe bets like "MS will win America, Sony Europe, and Nintendo Japan" are just using this gen as indicators ignoring all the variables that still are left unresolved. Price is a pretty big freaking deal and we don't know what MS or Sony will price their machines. I don't think power will matter that much as I don't think MS or Sony be powerful enough that devs will want to take advantage with multiplats (just like PS360 it didn't other than a few Sony 1st party titles). Will MS have a subscription based model? Will Sony charge for online? What exclusives will there be ready? The release dates are hopefully both for this holiday so we can have an even competition there (at least between the MS and Sony), but what about streaming? What about BC? I'll wait till at LEAST the 20th to decide. My personal way of looking at it is MS had 4 HUGE advantages this gen (price, release date, architecture, and exclusives at the start when they matter a lot more). What happened? They are going to end up last. If the 2 biggest of those are taken away (price and release date) then we could see a very large shift towards Sony. But maybe I'm wrong and xbox brand is too big in US and UK now. Maybe MS will make some monstrously powerful console and destroy the competition. Maybe MS doesn't care as long as their OS dominance is protected so they'll just take a $200 loss and undercut Sony that way. Who the hell knows at this point?
