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thismeintiel on 02 February 2013
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Turkish said:
PureDante said:

As was said before; Wii U will be deeply effected, but for nextXboxer's, it depends on region. A PS4 announcement will dominate the Japanese and European territories IMO, but it'll only generate -some- hype in America; the next Xbox will be a guaranteed success in America, considered it's current dominating presence. 


PS2 was also dominant in America, it didn't ensure PS3 winning there. It really doesn't matter how big the 360 is in America right now, everything can change next gen. The system with the most games and the lowest pricetag is likely to win.

People who constantly bring up the Xbox dominance in the US always seem to forget this.  The 360's starting at $200 less, having better 3rd party support for the first 2 years, and coming out 1 year earlier is what helped the Xbox seize hold of the US market this gen.  However, next gen Sony will not have those disadvantages this time around.  Does that mean that the Xbox can't still win US?  No.  But MS is going to have to bring their A game, since just like the PS3, it can't sell on name brand alone.

As for this announcement, it will probably hurt Nintendo.  For the few weeks before the announcement, as well as after the announcement, the media and gaming crowd are going to be talking about nothing but the PS4.  Nothing Nintendo announces will have any affect on sales of the Wii U, barring a price cut of $80-100.  Nintendo has got their work cut out for them if they want to turn around sales, and contrary to Nintendo fans beliefs, its going to take more than a few remakes and a 3D Mario. 

How this affects MS is going to depend on if the rumors surrounding it are true.  If its true that MS is sacrificing graphical power in order to push Kinect 2 and Windows 8, then that's not going to play out well.  First of all, a lot of core gamers didn't exactly like the Kinect, or MS's focus on it for the past 2 years.  If MS shows that they are really pushing Kinect 2 big time, its going to turn a lot of away from the NeXbox.  The lukewarm response to Windows 8 isn also going to be a turn off if it truly is the OS it uses.  Graphically, the NeXbox graphics aren't going to be as impressive if the PS4's graphics have already been shown weeks/months earlier and they are not only on par, but better than the Nexbox's.