Will Sony taking a loss for 2015 be worth it in 2016?

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binary solo said:

ps3-sales! said:

Ka-pi96 said:
US =/= World

Everywhere else they will vastly outsell Xbox without even having to try. Plus COD/Battlefront marketing deals will go a long way to keeping them competitive even against Halo in the US.

Wasn't really refering to sales. But with a Halo/Forza coming out I don't really expect to compete solely on bundles. Even worldwide. At least PS4 won't outsell Xbone as much as it has been so far.

Forza? You expect Forza do do something marketshare-wise? Unlikely to be more than a small blip, and not as significant as the 3rd party bundles. Halo 5 is pretty much the only prominant challenge for PS4.

Exactly, Forza is unlikely to shift any significant numbers of consoles, people who are on the lookout for an XBO *might* get a console with Forza bundled if there is a deal, but that may not be because they wanted forza, just a free game :)

People who wanted Forza will already have purchased an XBO, the numbers who havent will be very small. The same problem existed for the MS AC bundle, because people who really wanted a next gen AC game already moved to PS4 the year before for the very good Black Flag (probably why the bundle took so long to shift).

Halo is the only game out of all the games that has significant pulling power, and having already released a MCC, I suspect it will do less that it could of (because people already moved across), but I expect it to still push a good number.