| Jon-Erich said: A lot of 360 owners flocked to PlayStation 4. Microsoft pissed off a lot of Xbox loyalists last year just like how Sony pissed off a lot of PlayStation loyalists with PS3 causing them to flock to Xbox 360 and just like how Sega pissed off Sega loyalists with the Saturn causing them to flock to PlayStation. |
The people who flocked back to Sony are apart of a market that Sony partially grew themselves and jumped ship to Microsoft during the 360 era. Look at the history and the numbers. Those were not loyalists, but rather third party fans that originally grew from the Nintendo era, jumped to Sony then Sony increased the marketsize again and MS shaved them off by being the first and only console in the first year of the 7th gen complete with an equivalent list of third party games (including third party exclusives and timed exclusives) to Sony. Sony launched a year later and had lacked some third party games due to Microsoft paying for timed excusivity and exclusivity of a lot of third party games.
Microsoft eyed key third party franchises that they knew Sony had power over third party games with during the previous gens..
1. MGS
2. Tekken ( until last gen Tekken was exclusive to the Playstation brand)
3. Final Fantasy
4. Resident Evil
This was the first time MS ever truly posed a threat to Sony at E3. They basically cut major names from their exclusive third party franchise list.
