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LivingMetal on 26 March 2014
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VitroBahllee said:
LivingMetal said:
JakNBlak1993 said:
Not really. Everyone wants to go where their friends are. And that place, is with the Playstation Nation.


Could be a valid point for some.  Anecdotally, I know a handful of people in real life who have said that they ultimately went with an Xbox 360 because they had a fair amount of friends who were online with their Xbox 360s.  It seems to more of this case this gen with the PS4 ouselling the Xbox One.


With that logic, consider that the gap between PS4 and X1 is primiarly to be found in Europe, and they are much closer in the US. So neither side has a runaway advantage in the US in terms of 'peer platform' choice.


Again, "a valid point for some."  Console gaming has evolved more and more to the point to where it's becoming less likely that console makers cannot relying on that one "big" feature to attract consumers.  You have to nickle and dime your userbase/marketshare by having more to offer.  Different combinations of features of the same product will appeal differently to different people.  I think in terms of the variety of titles, this helped pushed the PS3 sales past the Xbox 360 later in its life.  Sales of the PS4 has been higher than that of the Xbox One.  I don't think that being online with the PS4 was a major factor that helped it outsell the Xbox One, but it's one of the factors that helped it worldwide.