thismeintiel said:
The prices are now the same (or will be in June), but the PS4 is still quite a bit more powerful, so you are getting more for your buck. Something core gamers who are buying the systems now, and in the near future, will know. You say Halo, but it's supposedly only Halo 2 Anniversary, not something huge, like Halo 5. Sunset Overdrive is a new IP, and made by a studio who hasn't really proven itself since breaking away from Sony. Forza Horizon didn't exactly sell gangbusters, or systems, for that matter. Not saying Sony has anything extremely better (most of their releases announced are unproven new IPs, though some do look promising and are from devs who have proven themselves), but they do have the momentum. And the word of mouth. And the better multiplats. Of course, Sony has many more 1st party studios we have yet to hear from. I can see a few more titles coming this year from a few of them. Or early next year, which people still keep in mind for their Xmas shopping. Also, on the topic of price, I see a possible $349 Black Friday bundle for both, but I'm going to have to say that that will favor Sony more than MS, again having the better HW and multiplats for the same price. |
Though hardware power isn't the be all, end all I suppose. PS3 was more powerful than the XBox 360 and the SNES moreso than the Genesis, so there are ways to fight that especially in the US market, but a $100 difference in price was absolutely killing MS, I think we'll see a closer fight starting from post-E3 onwards in North America as the news get out there into the mainstream that they're both the same price.
Then people are going to start looking more closely at what system has what exclusive.