Is the Xbox Brand Simply Weaker Than the Playstation Brand?

[Angelv577]

Miyamotoo said:

Angelv577 said:

Miyamotoo said:

PS4 selling much better than Xbox One have nothing with stronger brand, stronger brand did not help PS3 last gen.

Main reason why PS4 is selling much better than Xbox One is that same multiplat games works on 1080p on PS4 and 900p on Xbox One.

Except that it did help if you consider that the console was at 599/499 and release 1 year later than 360 (europe was 1 year and half later), can you tell me how ps3 manage to tie xbox 360?.  Don't forget that 360 was 399/299 and later on released the kinect in which attracted new consumers to the console.  how the ps3 manage to tie even against all that?  Now we are in a different situation, this time xbox screw up and look how easy it's for ps4 to dominate.  ps3 screwed up last gen and all 360 did was slowing down the inevitable.  lol I can't stop laughing at your 2nd sentence.  Do you realize that ps3 had the worst version of most of the games last gen?, why people didn't jump in masses to the 360? 

How!?

Sony take billions of losses to turn PS3 around, at start of generation Xbox360 was selling better than PS3.  And you can say that PS3 finally caught up with Xbox 360 last few years (2012-2013) with strong software push by Sony and slowing down support from Microsoft for Xbox 360.

PS3 wasnt weaker than Xbox360 it was just more complicated than Xbox360 for developing, Sony 1st party games are prove of that. Yes most of multiplat games beeter worked on Xbox360, but in most case they were 720p on both platforms, and in PS4/Xbox One situation you from start have 1080p/900p situation and nothing cant change that hole generation, PS4 will always be noticeably stronger.

You don't get the point of the thread do you? the question is if ps is stronger than xbox brand wise not profit wise and I already gave you the reason.  Let me go through it again, how is it possible that a console that launched at 599/499, 200 more expensive that the competition, launched one year later in US (europe was 1 year and half later) manage to sell on par with 360? the only way to do that is to have a better brand recognition than the competition.  If you invert the situation, 360 would have been a disaster and although I can't say xbox one is a disaster, you have almost an example how 360 would have performed with xbox one. 

If ps3 was weaker or not, it didn't matter, it was perceived like that by most gamers due to having most of the inferior ports.  The losses that sony got it's irrelevant to the market perception of the brand.  Sony can sell hundreds of ps consoles, everyone could have one, everyone could be talking about it but if sony made the decision to sell something at a loss or have a poor decision making in the hardware process, it's their decision.  When consumers are deciding to buy something, they never take into account a much of a loss the company is taking, so again, brand recognition have nothing to do with how many losses sony generated with ps3 since consumers didn't make any decision when deciding how to make the ps3, they just buy the product they want and that's it. 

Let me sum up everything I have just written.  If both consoles are launched on the same condition,  ps consoles have higher probability to win a console war against xbox consoles.  I'm not saying they are invincible but that's the reality.  sony made a huge mistake with ps3 and still manage to be on the top 5 of all time.  xbox one will be lucky to hit 50million let alone 60million.  Look at Wii U, nintendo made a mistake and will be lucky to hit 20milliion.  You can tell that in the console space, ps is the strongest brand.

 

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