| Mystro-Sama said: I think it will do better than the 360 :P |
Eh... if you extrapolate the current sales trends out further, X1 sells decently well, but never as good as the 360. Even when Titanfall became the #1 selling game, X1 couldn't outpace the PS4. Certainly things can change, but the price cut is really the only thing that can do it -- and even that sort of blows up in MS's face.
It's not that it's necessarily a horrible console now, it just started out as one when unveiled and they've been too slow to right the ship at the expense of really annoying some early adopters. They've sent the message that if you don't like something about the X1 now (DRM, the price, the kinect, or whatever) , wait a little bit and they will change their mind. However many gamers and publishers aren't inclined to waiting too long.
And while the performance gap is narrowing, it's not narrowing fast enough to change the general assertion of the PS4 being the more powerful console.
MS's E3 was good, but the 'exclusives' gap is growing pretty wide between X1 and it's competition, even including Wii U.
The original kinect was an insanely good hardware catalyst for the 360 -- I'm not sure what MS could offer to match it.
IMO -- sometime in the next 10 years MS will decide Xbox is really to big of a black hole for them financially and start strategically divesting from it. The brand value makes it sort of a 'too big to fail' type enterprise, but I think MS could get pretty creative on how to make a pretty penny getting out from under it.
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
