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captain carot on 08 January 2015
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thedawghousev2 said:
captain carot said:
Xbone isn't selling badly. Compared to both it's predecessors it even does fine in europe. It's just the PS4 doing far better that lets it look bad.
MS just wont dominate anywhere.
Sony is selling fast, but that doesn't say that they'll sell long. And there's millions of PS2 customers, that went to smartphone and tablet. That casual crowd Sony got back then as well as the 'core' gamers. Those mobile japanese, that don't seem to buy any home console today.

Last gen market growth: keep in mind that the last console gen was seven/eight years for MS and Sony. PS2 was sold over 12 years. This gen neither will last as long nor be sold as long.

Sure, PS4 is selling extremely well right now and will do so for some time. But with much tougher competition from MS than back in PS2 days from all competitors together, shorter lifecycle than last gen and,actually important, a trend to early jumpon every bandwagon by customers.

again i'm going to sound like a fanboy but the only reason it's selling better than it's predecessors is because of the fire sales that the original and the 360 didn't have


You mean the One? Well, it even sells better in europe at the moment. First Xbox startet with an extremely high price (479,-€ i think) and then dropped very fast. Didn't help it.

360 had one year headstart, was really powerful back then for it's money and still did not sell that well.

The One does actually even sell better in europe, without official pricecuts.

I wouldn't expect it to do better than the 360 overall. But it will do way better than the original Xbox. And that without being the most powerful console, pricetag on par with PS4...

 

Did the temparary pricecut help? Sure. But that wasn't a thing in continental Europe.

 

As for PS4, it would need to sell on a high level for a long time, get those PS2 casuals back (unlikely) or draw in much more coregamers in a gaming ecosystem that has changed totally.

I'd really say that the One will do better than the first Xbox but worse than 360 and PS4 will do worse than PS2 but better than PS3. Again, both with shorter lifecycles than last gen.