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Arkaign on 11 October 2014
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disolitude said:
HollyGamer said:
Funny thing is I found a lot of resemblance between Xbox One and Saturn actually:
1. Disaster at launch
2.Bad Console Design that difficult to develop and less powerful then PS1
3.Big Bulky Console that require Power brick
4. More expensive on the first two years then PS1
5. more popular in one area (for Saturn is Japan & for Xbox One US)
6.The same year launch with the competitor

Except for third party support and infinite money for the Xbox Division and also TV tuner support


Other than #4, none of those are ven remotely comparable with Xbox one.

Where have you been?

#1 : Disaster at launch. Inarguably, the Xbox One was severely harmed by it's reveal and initial DRM shock, and this drove the masses away, leaving the core Xbox fans to give them an okay front-loaded number, but 2014 has largely been a disaster for them sales-wise. Losing 2 to 1 globally was not what they planned.

#2 : Bad Console Design. A huge VCR looking thing with a chunky external power supply, yeah it's not pretty to look at. And they haven't been without issues either (Nintendo is the most reliable of course over Sony and Microsoft). #2A : Difficult to develop for and less powerful than PS4. Indisputably. The architecture is both more complex AND is coupled to a significantly slower GPU fed by significantly slower memory. To argue this is insanity. It's not a secret, and it's not up for debate.

#3 : See #2. Clearly true.

#4 : Only true for the launch period if you ignore Kinect like almost everyone has by now. Now they have price parity, so #4 only true really from Nov '13 to June '14.

#5.  Only moderately popular in US and UK, it's a near total disaster elsewhere, as their tiny marketshare is borderline irrelevant. China @ sub 100k I guess you could argue, but what's that % of globally. Not much.

#6. Absolutely true of course. Same time period within a scant few days. Unless you could the areas they insulted with 'Tier2' status while waiting for "localization" that wasn't even needed due to Kinectless.