A Microsoft turn around? The importance of games in gaming.

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starcraft said:

Burek said:

What I find most impressive is Microsoft's ability to persuade their customers that only the holiday season counts and that they can get away with not releasing a single game in the other 9 months.

And that fans actually can claim a superior lineup when all that is being released are two sequels and a third-party moneyhat.

And then in turn those same fans are shocked and dismayed that the rest of the population can choose to buy a console that is more powerful, has less corporate baggage, and has a much larger library of more varied game genres that releases on a continuous year-round schedule.

But that's OK, the sales numbers clearly show the disparity between people thinking for themselves and people who allow corporate PR teams to think for them instead.

I don't think all of this is directed at me, but I shall respond nonetheless, particularly to the last paragraph.

Its one thing to believe that the the Xbox One and WiiU do not have better line ups than the PS4. But to believe the PS4 has such a wonderful line up or library as to warrant this sort of lead? Please.

Frankly I think this generation is one great example of just how effective good (and bad) PR teams are at impacting their company's lot in the market. So much of Sony's lead is wrapped up in what is now a very dated notion that Microsoft's customers are going to be worse off than Sony's. That notion has been created and maintained by Sony's marketing masterstrokes, and Microsoft's marketing failures.

Actually all the devs deciding just not to develop for Xbox are also doing a great job of holding up that "very dated notion".

Even the most hardened Xbox fans can't deny that there is a lack of variety and quantity of games coming to Xbox in comparison to PS4. Note that I said "in comparison to PS4" and not that there is a general lack of variety and quantity.

Of course you can say that all these games that are coming to PS4 and not to X1 are irrelevant and it all depends on taste but then this discussion is irrelevant anyway.