NightDragon83 said:
Because the gaming market as a whole expanded pretty drastically from the 32/64-bit gen to last gen. According to the platform totals on here, the three major gen-5 consoles sold a total of around 146m units, while the three major gen-6 consoles (excluding the Dreamcast) sold around 205m units. That's a pretty big jump, and it was even bigger a generation earlier when home console sales nearly doubled from gen-4 to gen-5 thanks to Sony entering the market. One of the biggest reasons for this jump was the evolving image of game consoles as home entertainment hubs with the advent of the DVD medium, rather than strictly game machines aimed primarily at the under-18 crowd. Both Sony and later M$ were able to capitalize on this growing trend in the industry, whereas Nintendo was stuck mainly catering to their niche audience that was growing smaller and smaller each year until the Wii. That's why I suggested that if the Xbox hadn't existed, then most of its user base would have ended up in Sony's camp, because they both catered to a similar audience. |
Which is exactly as I said to Jega, Microsoft likes to dominate markets themselves and cannot tolerate it when others do it. Microsoft likened themselves to Sony so they were virtually indistinguisable and beefed up the marketing. They are are sitting on half of the PS2 marketshare that trickled down to the seventh generation. Next generation Sony and Microsoft will finally face off company to company instead of one year after the other. This gen will make or break who really holds power. Now that Sony is about 50k closer to tying with MS and then passing them, all they need now is to launch GT6 and commence with the inevitable. 
