Do people realize it's almost impossible to kill a douopoly console? (SONY/MS/XBox One)

[Chris Hu]

zorg1000 said:

Chris Hu said:

Also its a bit unfair to compare the sales of two well established franchises to a new IP and the second Halo 2 could have done a bit better if it wasn't also available on the PC and the first one could have sold a bit better also even though it didn't get a PC release until two years after it launched on the X-Box.

Stop making excuses, it would have done better if.......

Speculating on how things would have been in different scenarios is fun but it doesnt change the fact that Gamecube and Xbox were almost equal in pretty much every aspect, hardware/software/tie ratio/best sellers. They were both fighting for an extremely distant 2nd place. Now u could say it was a moral victory for Microsoft to be able to beat Nintendo in its first attempt but thats irrelevant to this discussion. The fact remains that there was no duopoly in the 6th gen, PS2 dominated each and every region with an iron first while Xbox/Gamecube fought hard to stay relevant.

The original X-box was more then relevant in the US/North America just have a look at the sales numbers of Halo 2 it still the best selling first party exclusive in that region and one of the biggest games of the decade in both sales, popularity, critical acclaim and historical significance.  Also historically speaking the only console that truely domintated North America was the NES with over 90% of the home console market share and total control of all third party publishers not only could they dictate what games to make for that console, they also controlled how many copies could be made since they where in total control of all the cartrige manufacturing.