What with the Kaz Hirai fanclub lately?

[thismeintiel]

sales2099 said:

thismeintiel said:

Didn't realize we had a similar discussion going on in another thread.   

Anyway, no.  I'm saying a few months headstart for MS will do nothing.  Like I said in the other thread, the PS3 came out 1 1/2 years after the 360, yet is 5.5M ahead of the 360.  This gen, EU will most likely treat the NeXbox like the Wii U, especially if they only have to wait a few months for the PS4.  Japan will definitely go Sony over MS, so that's 2 major regions right there.  As for the US, given the price will be similar, as well as similar launch periods, it will be anyones game.  Though, I do see Sony winning back quite a bit of the marketshare it lost.  MS has got one heck of a battle going against it.

Unless offcourse MS gets the casual crowd that made Wii what it was. WiiU doesn't have that same magic and somehow I doubt the PS4 will be a casual magnet, especially with MS's very ambitious goals to be a all-in-one media/entertainment hub

Well, if rumors are true that they are using the NeXbox to push Windows 8, that's not going to appeal to casuals very much.  Kinect has also lost its luster with the casuals, so unless its a great improvement over the first one, Kinect 2 probably won't have much of an impact, either.  Personally, I think next gen is going to go back to the core crowd.  Sure there will be casuals, but they won't be the ones determining the direction the industry goes in.  I think this is partly evidenced by the recent sales of the Wii U.  It's not that expensive, and seems to scream casual magnet, yet its selling like a dying console at the moment.