Microsoft in unique position to disrupt Sony's console reign

[Alby_da_Wolf]

AsGryffynn said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

A thing MS already tried with the transition from the original XB to XB360. It didn't work. OTOH, despite totally wasting its head start and ending its gen at the last place, XB360 was able to eventually gather nice fruits from the unusual lenghth of its own gen, with high HW sales and very high attach rate and SW sales for a last ranking console, no other last ranking one ever sold as much, currently. This should have taught MS a thing or two.

They didn't release the X360 early. The GC was already dying and the PS2 was outdated. They were starting early, but that was well into the seventh generation... 

And second place if you count the Wii fad. The X360 was ahead of the PS3 when the Wii U was revealed. 

Wii fad is quite a funny way to define Wii, considering that even having stopped selling earlier, neither PS3 nor XB360 managed to reach its sales. Also, it died early for Ninty's fault, it still was the best selling console when Ninty started clumsily killing its sales far too early before Wii U launch.
And when Wii U launched, XB360 was still outselling PS3 by little more than 2M LTD, having lost 60% of its initial lead, and it lost it all during the following years, and it's also going to lose the lead in boxed games sales, although it will probably keep forever the lead in 7th gen dgital sales.
If you want to claim that they fixed their early mistakes in an excellent way, I can agree at 100%, but this cannot cancel the fact that they almost completely wasted XB360 early launch. And that early launch actually was rushed, MS was forced to cut original XB production before it reached its full potential sales because NVidia outsmarted it with a one-sided contract for the GPU and it was making it bleed money.