Why the Xbox One is losing to the PS4, according to the guy who made Xbox matter

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TheSting said:

mochachino said:

I think most people were still sore about being exploited on 360 and treated like a second class consumers after Xbox started chasing after that Wii casual money at the expense of the core and early adopters...who were already pissed from the RROD/dvd drive issues, and 13.6 gig HD, and ridiculously overpriced updgrade options...and no HDMI or WiFi. The list goes on.

Xbox division did an amazing job coming from Xbox original to 360, then spent the remainder of the gen destroying their goodwill among consumers. They're rebuilding it now but it cost them so much. They could have been dominate console brand by a large margin. Sony was on the ropes poised to become Sega or at best, have Nintendo sales. Xbox blew it.

PS was never going to be Sega. Their systems sell always. 

I don't think that's quite true. If MS had done everything right with 360 then with the open goal Sony handed MS at the start of the 7th gen Xbox could have been the globally dominant HD gaming brand. But they did stumble with the 360, as mentioned in mochachino's post. Early gen if their base sku had a HDD, built in WiFi, HDMI, and RROD and dvd drive issues never happened PS3 may have been ground into the dust, relatively speaking. PS3 could have been on course for <40 million in sales for the 7th gen if MS had executed perfectly in gen 7. And with what went down with Sony during the GFC a <40 million generation could have spelled death Sony as a whole.