While I agree about securing top 3rd party exclusives, and throwing good parties, I don't agree about the marketing.
PlayStation's current branding is strong. The marketing has moved from weird to in touch with the times, and has also caused some nostalgia with old fans of PlayStation too.
Plus they aren't stepping wrong, making themselves sound like they're spinning the truth every time. Because they are genuinely doing well, they can release positive PR without bending the truth. Some of the antics MS has been pulling, diverting attention with meaningless stats and using ambiguous language is really bad. People are not that stupid.
PS. All this stuff about XB1 being the official console of the NFL, and PS4 sold more copies of Madden.
PPS. What would be really funny is to see some commercials like those Mac vs PC commercials Apple used to do.
ps4 - Hi, I'm a PS4.
xb1 - And I'm an XB1, and I can run all the same games.
ps4 - Yes but do they run as well?
xb1 - Well no, but you can do this. "Xbox, turn on".
ps4 - Cool.
ps4 - I can run games with nearly no installation time. [launches straight into a game]
xb1 - Well I can watch TV while the game spends 15 minutes installing. "Xbox watch live tv"
ps4 - Cool...... not.
ps4 - Let me share a video of what I've been playing. Click, click, done.
xb1 - Oh yeah well watch this. "Xbox, snap Internet Explorer".... "I said, Xbox, snap in In-ter-net Explorer"..... struggles in frustration
ps4 - Sounds like... hours of fun. And this is, $500?
xb1 - Yeah.
