Why Sony is Winning: The Value of Image

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Hiku said:

I agree with many of his points.
As a long time Nintendo player, usually the first thing that comes to mind with Nintendo are the pastelle colors and the children focused games and systems.

As for Microsoft, they've really been pushing the "dudebro" games the most for their system. Forza, Halo, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, COD, etc. As he mentioned in the video, Sony's lineup at Gamescon had a lot more diversity than Microsoft's. And heavily pushing the "dudebro" games has worked out well for MS in the past, but I think when many of those gamers want the best graphics for their multiplatform games, it'll be a lot harder to keep them on the MS platform. Madden selling more on PS4, in spite of the X1 bundle, may be one example of that.

I also think Nintendo really should drop the price of the Wii U further. $300 isn't a bad price, but it's just not selling as well as they'd want, and it doesn't help that the hardware is a lot weaker than the competitions, not to mention the extremely limited 32GB harddrive space that essentially means having to buy an additional external harddrive if you want some games on digital.

I know MS gets flack for not having a diverse lineup genre-wise, but I think that Sunset Overdrive and Quantum Break show that they are trying to break away from that image. I wouldn't classify either of the two as 'dudebro' games, though I don't see either selling too well.