bananaking21 on 20 April 2015
| celador said: MS made all the right decisions at the beginning of last gen. RROD was a real mark against them, but aside from that they released first, at a good price, with good exclusive software, courted Japanese devs, got their online infrastructure to a really high quality (better than it is now if the Xbox subreddit is anything to go by) and made the console easy to develop for ensuring they had superior third party ports. Sony released at a very high price point (although not bad considering it was also a blu-ray player), had inferior third party ports for the most part, and had various online problems, including a hack that outed the service for a month. Sony got it together eventually, and the second half of the gen were far better than MS, but they still gave their competitor a substantial head-start across the board. But even with all those advantages, Xbox could only tie with PS last gen. As long as PS exists, I don't think Xbox can win anything. |
the hack was 5 years after launch....
