| tuscaniman99 said: @DialgaMarine I'm 32 and started gaming on the Atari 2600. I remember Playstation dominance and there were many reasons why this was so. Third party exclusives, media, etc. Sony doesn't have these advantages over Microsoft. There is a 0% chance of PS4 dominating the Xbox One in America. A tie is the best they can hope for. I'm talking lifetime sales. |
I'm 33, so we lived through pretty much the same thing. If you remember correctly, the reason the first Xbox got a foot hold in the US is because of Halo 2 and XBL. XBL was a revolution at the time, and American's ate it up. This is pretty much why the 360 blew up like it did. There simply wasn't anything like it, even after the PS3 came out. But that advantage has slowly been eroded.
The fact is, MS decided to shift towards families and casuals. Back in the day, the first Xbox was for die hard gamers. I'd say it was the hard cores console of choice. More power, amazing online gameplay, it KILLED the PS2. But those days are over. The Xbox brand has now pretty much become a casual console that can also play a few core games, and casuals are pretty much gone. The hard core, over the last few years, have slowly shifted over the Sony thanks to Sony's brilliant marketing. While they DID launch the Move, they did it in an almost "oh, by the way, we also have this thing called motion controls, IF you want them". That was a genius move because it allowed them to stand alone. While MS was focusing on avatars, kinect and turing their E3's into Lets Dance demos, Sony was using Kevin Butler in ads saying "long live game". They did to MS what they did to Nintendo in the 90's. They used MS's blunder to their advantage, which is what they're best at.
This is why PS4 is going to win the US imo. Sony gambled by not going all in with casual gaming, and won.
