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Experimental42 on 21 July 2014
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RavenXtra said:
Experimental42 said:
People thinking that 3rd party titles like CoD are going to boost XB1 sales are in for a rude awakening.

There is literally ZERO reason to buy an XB1 for those games when the PS4 is the same price, looks better, and comes with exclusive content.

It's not just 3rd party, but the combination of both 3rd and 1st party from Microsoft. That managed to keep the original Xbox ahead of the GameCube, so I don't see how its impossible for that to happen again.

I also bought an XB1 over a PS4 despite the fact that PS4 has superior hardware. Hardware superiority isn't that big of a selling point to me obviously, I did buy a Wii U after all :P. I'd just rather have access to future XB1 exclusives than Sony's. Having owned a PS3 I just wasn't that impressed with the exclusives it offered aside from Gran Turismo & LittleBigPlanet :/

You probably shoulda reversed the order and had the 360 and the PS4. XD

On a serious note. The original XB stayed ahead of the Gamecube for two reasons.

1) Halo's massive successs. It revolutionized console FPS online play. Unfortunately for MS, Halo has gone downhill since 2007, and there's no more groundbreaking online play since its become standard for every FPS. XB360 Halos sold well because they were established and hyped exclusives for the best selling FPS console. The series started to Decline after 3 though, and it's no longer on the best selling, non-wii, console.

2) Gamecube was a marketing disaster. It was weaker, looked terrible, and the color scheme was awful. The group they were aiming for wanted nothing to do with it. Do you want the sexy, sleek PS2 or do you want the underpowered purple lunch box with the carrying handle and creepy children laughing? It took me a long time to mature into the Gamecube. A lot of people couldn't see the amazing games over the terrible looking package they were played by.

 

As it stands, XB1 is in the most trouble because it can't rely on those third party games to sell it, due to the PS4 being superior in every way, and it doesn't have the depth of first parties like Nintendo does.

Yes, people will say they bought an XB1 and plan to get third party games on it, but those are people settling for the lesser games because they want a Halo or Gears, not because of the third party games. That's also why Halo sales won't be as big a system seller as people think, because the only people with the XB1 are fans of the series.