freedomland:
"Why Sony already won the Next-Gen Console War"
And I'll tell you why *I think* you're wrong. Your whole post is full of assumptions based on what is already a fact on what the current generation already produced. On a software level and marketing strategy, Microsoft pummeled Sony in this department. Sony simply just doesn't have the money to burn that MS does. Your numbers also belie what you state in the current gen market. On a hardware level, Sony may have had a slight edge in power, they simply failed at getting developers the tools to utilize the Cell processor. While Sony is a bit behind in console sales, if you do a year over year average, Sony kills MS in hardware sales, they lag pretty much behind in software sales on average. Think how much money MS makes for charging for Xbox Live gold subscriptions (aside from killing the software sales), while Sony touts its free usage. MS has money to burn now and it even leveled up their pay-for subscritpion charges through marketing while still gaining pay-for subscriptions.
I am not a fanboy, and I don't own a PS3, never will as owning two consoles makes no sense to me. I prefer how the 360 and it's software works. Sony lacks in that area and I don't see the next gen taking anything away from what MS has achieved already since the hardware will differ little in power and I do not see MS falling behind in how they had the better software (operating system) on their consoles. It has already been pretty much shown that the PS4 hardware will be a bit more powerful (though the numbers show it to be only by minor amounts), as it was with the PS3 over the 360. But what matters is how marketing, flexibility of operating system software and how much money the company can throw at their system to promote sales; in this, MS will still kill Sony.
Sony did the right thing for the next gen in dropping Cell processor which has no busniness in software calculations, as much as it excels in number crunching. Sony screwed up using the Cell as it delayed software releases by a full year at minimum for AAA titles. Developers will easily adapt to Sony this time tying into a symmetrical CPU system, but will they benefit from the asinine marketing strategy that left them behind from this current gen, in what should have killed MS; MS is just advancing a better marketing scheme. The CPUs for both systems (purportedly) will be 6 cores on the next iteration while the PS4 will purportedly have the better graphics hardware, similar to this gen. At this point, even if Sony has the earlier release, I don't see them able to market their hardware and software meaning much as they cannot throw the money around like MS can, like it or not. Had Sony gotten the hardware right with the PS3, they would have had that money right now and owned MS in this gen. As it stands now, MS is licking their chops when it comes to marketing and throwing money at the next gen and their system/software.
I could be wrong, but time will tell.
