PS4's Early Sales Lead Might Be All Smoke and Mirrors

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Sharpryno said:

ICStats said:

They may be technically similar, but people don't base buying decisions on that.  The PS4 is better in a number of ways: power, looks, size, and arguably in experience too, and for a long time price.  So when people make a buying decision they won't think "well they're almost the same" and then flip a coin to pick one.  The one that's perceived better is picked significantly more, and then there is the network effect.

The PR effect is also really strong.  Some people just don't want to support MS anymore plain and simple.  I was fairly neutral on XB1's original DRM proposals, and originally thinking to get an XB1 this holiday, but MS pissed me off with Tomb Raider and I'm definitely not going to buy an XB1 this holiday because of that PR.  Simple as that, if you tick people off the wrong way they won't buy your product even if they would have otherwise.

Pissed you off by helping to publish and work on Tomb Raider?  How come Sony did not piss you off with all the extra content and exclusive alpha/beta?  MS simply has timed DLC which is pretty short.  Sony, this gen, has been straight up buying content that does not get released on the XBO.  Has happened for Watch Dogs, AC4, and Destiny (year long but basically exclusive to ps4 as Destiny will be dead in a year).

Tomb Raider was a profitable game.  Also TR:DE had almost double the framerate on PS4 as on XB1.  RoTR is a game that was coming to PS4 and MS paid to block it (sure they are helping publ... cough, line SE's pockets with easy money instead of selling the game to it's fans).

Be my guest and be pissed off at Sony.  I'm not.  3rd party games run best on the PS4 so Sony is not holding back the games.  I wouldn't buy any multiplat games for XB1 anyway.