| adriane23 said: I think it's still possible for Nintendo to win a gen, but I don't think MS really knows how to stay in the game for the long run. I also don't think that SONY has won any of the past three gens by default. They worked really hard to stay on top. They were very forward thinking with the Playstation, which ultimately sealed their dominance for gen 5. They went to the DVD format and garnered a ridiculous amount of 3rd party support in gen 6. They re-worked their message, spent a LOT of money, and flooded their user-base with exclusive after exclusive for gen 7 after being on the ropes for years. It also helped that Nintendo went too casual and MS kept robbing their customers for 8 years. They made sure their message was clear and gamer-centric all the while making MS look like clueless fools for the start of Gen 8. |
Exactly. The only reason why 360 was mostly on top over the PS3 in the first place was due to a combination of Sony's constant fuck-ups with the PS3, a lower price tag, & a year head start (A year & a half head start over in Europe).
Heck, Robbie Bach even admitted that 360 wouldn't be as big today were it not for Sony constantly screwing up with the PS3:
Were it not for either of those things mentioned above, or people re-buying 360's due to RROD, or if not for Kinect helping get more sales for the Xbox 360, then the 360 would've been in 3rd place in worldwide sales WAY before 2013.
They used to have a 8+ million lead over PS3 in sales worldwide, but ever since the PS3 slim came out, with the lower price tags, more exclusive games, & the re-branding of the PS3, the gap shrunk down to 5+ million, & then down to 3+ million or 4+ million (I think that 360 was at 45+ million owners & PS3 was at 41+ million or 42+ million owners before Kinect & PS Move officially came out, if I'm correct).
