Shinobi-san said:
DexInDaJungle said:
I feel like the majority of casual gamers who would have been interested in buying an Xbox One because they enjoyed their Xbox 360 may have been thrown off by the price difference. I believe half of those people are either holding out for a price drop or already own a PS4.
As for the more hardcore gamers, a good deal of them are either exclusively loyal to Nintendo or they went with the cheaper, more powerful console. Brand loyalty is a myth when it comes to Microsoft and Sony, whoever has the better deal at the time is gonna be the one people go to. This isn't a knock on Sony or Microsoft fans, it's just the way I see it. If you disagree then you tell me, if Microsoft had a cheaper product that outperforms the competition and has great games on it, you would buy Sony's product? I doubt that.
With that said, Microsoft can still come out of this hole. The performance issue isn't as big as people make it out to be, if they can give people enough great exclusives people won't care as much about whether the game is in 1080p and 60FPS. The price can be cut down and the DRM thing will eventually die out, probably by the end of this years E3.
Funny, I actually wrote an entire article about Microsoft and how they can dig their ways out last week and now here I am talking about it again. (Trying to give my blog a cheap plug :P) |
Well by limiting the argument to hardcore gamers alone then i think Sony and MS definitely have a core following, who no matter what, will buy their product. Sony has had this following for a while, just look at the PS3's early sales. The 360 was the better value preposition yet people still bought the PS3. When price came down, then the rest followed.
And to a lesser extent, the sales of X1 despite price, kinect, and terrible PR is indicative of a core following for the brand.
So yeah, i think all 3 manufacturers have a core following that will buy based on loyalty.
Also..post the link to your blog article 
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I believe that the following Sony had for the PS3 was because of the games they had to offer over Microsoft. I mean look at the track history, the PS2 had some of the greatest games in history and the Xbox had Halo. This is coming from a guy who owns an Xbox 360 and an Xbox One, the original Xbox didn't have as much to offer as the PS2 did. This is why people went to the PS3. When looking at the overall product price, hardware performance and software should be looked at. And at the end of the day, people can over look the first two if it means they get great software.
Also I wasn't sure if I could advertise my blog but it's in my signature. The article is here - http://www.rubixgaming.com/gaming-columns/microsft-needs-success-at-e3
