Is the Xbox Brand Simply Weaker Than the Playstation Brand?

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

gergroy said:
The ps brand is certainly larger in majority of the world markets, and it should be with its dominant performance since inception.

However, I do have one thing to say about the op. People love to talk about how terrible the PS3 launch was and talk about how the 360 still let the PS3 catch up. The problem with that statement is it fails to take into account the 360's own failure of a launch, which in many ways was even worse than the ps3's. The 360 manufacturing was broken. Half the systems coming off the line didn't work and half the systems they shipped quickly broke. That went on for over three years. Personally, I think that amounts to a worse launch then just being overpriced.

I think the real issue is that Last Gen is only one part of determining an answer for the thread's question, which most posters don't realize.

I agree that most people ignore the 360's own problems, but I think tit for tat they were overshadowed by the PS3's problems.

In its first year, the XB360, was against last gen, and MS cut off support for XB quickly (something I resent) but it worked in their favor because of how quickly they got new people to adopt the system.

Any problems it did have didn't really matter because people didn't know what to expect and MS let everyone think it was normal. They also serviced those issues well enough that it didn't hamper it much, especially with Social Media in its infacy.

By the time PS3 and Wii came, XB360 had established third party dominance and price, not to mention consumers had a whole year to adjust to issues and MS instated a warranty. Yeah MS was sued cause of their own negligence, but they purposely did this to release first this time around.

Even if it was a replacement, they still moved units.

PS3 had to deal with 2 competitors, slow game start, and being overpriced which is a lot more toxic then hardware problems for the following reasons:

*Consoles depend on price to sell, both in general and with their competitors

*Sony faced a manufacturing shortage because of their high POM

*Parents

*HW problems can and are constantly overlooked. Its a cognitive bias that I currently can't remember the name of, I think its Neglect of probability but Im not sure on that, where people will think, " Oh it can't happen to me," despite the probability being high and so taking a chance with lower price and getting a 360 as opposed to PS3, assuming their interest lies in similar libraries.

That being said PS3 tended to outsell the 360 more of the years they shared on the market, but 360, made it a grueling 10 years for it to do so.

Ultimately ROW made up the difference in that gen.