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thismeintiel on 25 September 2014
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NightDragon83 said:

There are only 2 reasons why the PS4 is selling so well compared to the X1:

1: The negative PR for M$ and the positive PR from Sony from the pre-E3 reveals to the lead up to the launch.
2: The initial $100 price difference between the X1 and PS4.

Take these two things away and the X1 and PS4 are on equal footing. They are literally two sides of the same coin when it comes to features and software library. Arguing that PS4 is selling better because it is technically more powerful or that 3rd party games perform better on PS4 is a joke... PS3 was more powerful than 360, yet 360 trounced it for much of the generation, especially in North America. The original Xbox was more powerful than PS2 and multiplatform games looked and ran better on it, but that didn't stop the PS2 from running away as the market leader that gen.

In fact, the only real reason Sony has had so much success in the home console market, especially during the PS1, 2 and now 4 generations, is because its competition keeps shooting themselves in the foot... Nintendo and SEGA both did this during the PS1 & 2 era, and M$ and Nintendo did just that at the start of this generation.

@ 1st bolded

If it helps you sleep at night telling yourself that, then you go right ahead.  But the truth is that that has played a part in it.  Why do you think that even with MS equaling the footing in terms of price (actually more than equaling, since they are throwing free games at new purchasers), the PS4 sells better.  Are why there was even a resolution-gate, which MS has been doing all they can to give devs more power to try to reach parity with multiplats.  With recent news, though, it seems resolution-gate is going to start up again.

Also, the PS3 was more powerful than the 360, however, that was only shown with exclusives.  The negatives and positives of each system still made them pretty close.  The PS3 was nowhere near ~1.4x as powerful as the 360 (same goes for Xbox vs PS2.)  Maybe ~1.05-1.1x.  It also helped 360 that the PS3 was complicated to work with, so multiplat performance favored the 360 for  the first 1-2 years.

@ 2nd bolded

I guess that means you feel that MS was only successful because Sony shot themselves at the start of last gen?