| Soundwave said: I personally don't think the PS4 would be no.1 if it didn't have a decided horsepower advantage. By having this advantage it means it gets the best versions of the big multiplats. When the PS4/XB1 are so close together people do look for what the difference is, and the PS4 had better performance. Unless you're going to die without Halo, what was the incentive to choose an XB1 over a PS4? Their main utility as game devices is to play 3rd party titles and the PS4 does that better than the XB1 does. Once people started choosing the PS4 it creates a snowball effect where now your friend has a PS4, so I mean you're going to buy a PS4 too to be able to play online with them (South Park parodied this very well). |
Power may have had some affect but not even close to the only thing causing PS4 to outsell XBO.
PS4 was going to dominate basically everywhete outside of America regardless, PS3 outsold 360 by 20 million outside of America despite making many mistakes, PS4 would again dominate in these regions even if it was weaker than XBO.
Microsoft made a lot of mistakes which hurt it early, $100 more expensive, mandatory Kinect, always online, no used games. These things really caused PS4 to be seen as the more consumer friendly choice and Microsoft has not been able to steal PS4's momentum.
Power may have been a factor but PS4 would still be soundly beating XBO even if it had a 1.2tflop GPU and used DDR3 RAM.
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