RolStoppable said:
platformmaster918 said:
Sony home consoles and portables are incomparable imo. They've had 2 portables and their most successful one sold just 1/2 of its competitor. They've had 3 home consoles with 2 being dominant market leaders and one on pace to be near 100m by the time it stops selling.
I also take issue with your statement that Sony first party has had no influence on their systems. The PS3 gave no reason for consumers to buy it (more expensive and late compared to the system it was directly opposing with shoddy third party support and sub par online features at first) other than free online and its first party games yet it has outpaced the 360's sales and is probably going to reach at least 90m sales lifetime. By process of elimination it's one of the two and I've personnally sold 3 people on PS3 just by showing them the first party games. If anything Sony's biggest flaw is advertising, or advertising poorly with no features listed or gameplay showed, its games. Hopefully that will be fixed this upcoming gen. I see nothing but an upward trend for Playstation this trend with most of these handicaps from last gen either being greatly reduced or non-existent.
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I said "no major role", not "no influence".
I'll offer you an alternative for why the PS3 outpaced the 360 in launch aligned worldwide sales: The 360 was never a global console, it only made big inroads in the USA and UK. It was virtually non-existent in Japan and always had problems to sell well in mainland Europe. Brand definitely played a bigger role than free online and first party games, especially in Japan where neither online gaming and Sony first party games are really popular.
Don't forget that both, the 360 and PS3, were struggling at their $400+ price points. That's the most important thing here, because both companies are preparing to launch expensive systems again.
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I think WiiU is showing that brand loyalty from gen to gen isn't what most think it is. As was shown by N64, Saturn, and Atari 5200 before it. People buy what has the most appeal. Maybe in Japan you could say that but then NA has changed from Sony to Nintendo to MS in the past 7 years so who knows.
