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teigaga on 05 October 2014
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Mr Puggsly said:
Kerotan said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Xbox merely capitalized where Sony dropped the ball with PS3. PS3 had huge momentum following the PS2 but Sony fucked up.

Actually, I expected the X1 to do even worse than it has. Xbox One needed to be cheaper than PS4 to really compete, not more expensive or even equal. This time MS fucked up.

Nintendo, Sony, and MS all dropped the ball on their 3rd console.

So every consoles success has been because of the competitors being bad instead of the console being good? 

That has been pretty evident starting around the 5th gen.

PS1 benefited greatly from N64 staying with carts. Saturn was DOA for various reasons.
PS2 maintained that success thanks to great 3rd party support. OG Xbox had a strong core following though.
PS3 was too expensive early on and Xbox had good momentum. That helped the 360 thrive.
Now X1 fucked up primarily on price. They simply couldn't compete with Playstation at equal or higher price.

Also the fact that the n64 was forever being delayed, eventually arriving 2 years after the ps1. Imagine in this day and age if there was 2 years between a microsoft and sony system. Whoever came second would be dead on arrival. Its only because of Nintendo's legacy they were able to sell 30m.

With X1 I think the PR disaster was almost as important as price, the whole internet turnt against them and when we're talking early adopters, we're talking people on forums and in the IGN comments sections. ALso the stale legacy they left after they pretty much abandoned the 360 post 2010, whilst sony continued pumping out tons of exclusive titles had an effect on people I know.