Do you think PS4 sales will ever be double that of Xbox One?

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RolStoppable said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

RolStoppable said:
Yes, easily.

If Sony fails to accomplish that, then it will be just as pathetic as the 360 finishing in third place.

360 came in third place because of their weakness, which is first party. They threw everything at Sony and Sony still prevailed over them even though they both lost to Nintendo. If Microsoft cannot beat Sony's first party this gen they might as well just buy out as many companies as humanly possible match Sony's amount of hits.

Yeah... no.

Sony's first party wasn't the difference-maker. It was a combination of Microsoft's inability to really break into markets that are not the USA or the UK (where the best-selling games were also third party games that were available on the 360), and what I believe to be an obligation to show results. Namely that Xbox can profit. So around mid-gen Microsoft stopped being aggressive and began to ride it out which showed in the 360 not receiving a price cut for a long time.

The latter is why I think that Microsoft won't throw endless money at the Xbox One. They will of course do a few things, but there won't be huge amounts of funds going into the Xbox business. This is already Microsoft's third Xbox, so the days of buying market share by losing billions of dollar are over.

The reason they could not break into those markets is because ms third party does not have games that appeal to anything other then americans.............That and Sony knows how to market, sell WW, MS is really just american focused.