curl-6 said:
Yes, but even after a veritable fire sale it's still falling behind PS4 every week. It's competition, yes, but I certainly wouldn't call it strong competition. There's pretty much nothing MS can do to win this gen at this point, they are locked into second place. |
exactly. Xbox threw the kitchen sink at PS4 many times this year and what's the end result gonna be? A slaughter WW. PS4 WW for November so far beat X1 and that's despite as you say, the MS fire sale.
I'm usually pesimistic for the PS as a fan of it but lets be honest the PS4's biggest competition is itself. It's PS4's to lose and I see the gap widening rather than shrinking.
Also historically Xbox excells for Xmas way more than the rest of the year where as Playstation is the evergreen product. Remember all those years where the 360 took Q4 WW but the gap was erased and then some by the PS3 for Q1,2 and 3. Now we have a situation where PS4 will outsell it 3:1 for Q1, 2 & 3 but as Xmas it will only outsell it maybe 2:1 or 1.5:1.
And next year some big 3rd party titles like FF and MGS will have a huge effect on the PS4 but not on the X1. Plus Sony has it' sown first parties to counter act MS's. I really see no way they can halt the momentum.
