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Lafiel on 30 January 2014
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Seece said:
bananaking21 said:
i thought UK was "Xbox Land"?

just to show that what happens in previous gens doesnt really effect what happens in the next one. no market is already decided for a console maker, and PS4 dominating UK is just proof of this.

That's not strictly true. The reason this happens is because the previous winner gets arrogant and puts out a product inferior (in different ways).

Which do you think would have won out of PS3 and 360 in the UK if PS3 launched at the same price and the same time as 360?

The market chooses the best option.

Personally I thought MS would be able to hold onto it's strong markets, because additionally to brand loyalty and recognition they already have a lot of people that invested heavily in digital content, so if the X1 was fully backwards compatible I think they could have easily convinced them to stay in their ecosystem. Just like switching smartphone platforms becomes tougher the more you are invested in the respective ecosystem.

Sony never was in a position to realistically offer PS3 b/c in it's next console, as it's non-standard parts like the Cell and the XDR ram have performance spikes in some areas you can't really reproduce with off-the-shelf components.

That ecosystem was not much of a factor at the start of 8th gen is pretty surpring to me, but I'm 99% sure all console manufacturers will try to emulate what apple and google are doing and make sure to offer full b/c and even limited f/c in the future, as they are in a good position to do so with the components they choose.