| Dark_Feanor said: If VGChartz is accurated there is nothing more MS can do to save that region. But it´s hard to belive they will hate the XOne for much longer and with no apparent reason. |
I think the DRM fiasco and the initially higher price with a less powerful hardware delivering the worse multiplats did a lot of damage and that's deserved. The first two were solved while the last won't be, but months of bad word of mouth and marketing really killed it.
It's hard to convince the public that your product is better when you expent the first months convincing everyone that it was terrible. It's a matter of public perception right now. Despite that, Sony has a stronger global brand with the PS. During the PS3 years they managed to keep themselves on par with the 360 even with worse multiplats and bad princing. Things reversed this gen and the market followed the trend.
The price cut was the best thing MS did, they eliminated the bigger problem. The ideal of course would be to undercut the PS4 price, but that could backfire (not getting a big boost and now having to deal with losses, investors wanting to spin-off the division with the losses, Sony matching their price, etc).
