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Intrinsic on 11 March 2017
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Ali_16x said:

I don't know how the market will play out, that's why I said that it's possible for MS to win NA.

1.You don't know how people will react to the Scorpio, maybe it being like a new console will give it the edge, or maybe it's the multiplats,

2. I mean a 2M lead is not that big and MS goes all of out in NA.

3. Just saying MS absolutely has a chance to win NA, not like the other 2 people saying it doesn't.

Did you just ignore everything I said? 

  1. Its talk like that thats setting up some XB fans for disappointment. ITS NOT LIKE A NEW CONSOLE. Forget how powerful it is or isn't, even MS has constantly reiterated this fact. Its an upgrade that offers more power or as MS likes to push it; native 4k gaming (when even that won't b the case in all games as per their leaked devs docs). For a system to be a "new console" it has to have one thing..... exclusives. Games that can only be played on it and nowhere else. The scorpio is not going to have that. What the scorpio will have is better performing hardware and more importantly..... a higher price. People really need to stop thinking that in the console market there are more people willing to pay significantly more for better hardware. 

    Or you really think the reason PS4pro sales are only tracking around 20% of total PS4 sales is because its not "powerful enough"?

  2. Thats just not true.... think of it.... its taken sony over 3 years to get that (not that big) 2M lead. (if its even that much cause it could be less). The whole point of my post was to show you what needs to happen for MS to make up that gap. When people talk about something selling well, they seem to forget that the other thing will also  keep selling too. Its not like sales of PS4 will just stop in NA the second the scorpio is released.


  3.  Well yes there is always a chance....... anything is possible afterall.... but that chance in this case is like a less than 10% chance. There is just so much going against it. Pricing is key here, and for the first time this gen sony would be the one with the weaker console. Think of it, MS are not the only ones that will go hard the holiday..... sony has no PSVr or PS4pro to push this year.... so they too will go hard and in the only area other than games left for them to exploit, and thats price.  

    A $199 PS4 + game (and there are so many games to bundle here from what we know sony to have marketing deals with already COD, RDR2, ME:A, Horizon, SW:BF...etc) is gonna be really really hard to beat. Especially if in truth all the scorpio is going to bring to the table is a better take on what the PS4pro did last year. I really don't understans how people still  think a bigger more expensive and/or more powerful box is going to do wonders. Has that EVER worked before? We have a history of consoles that has always sold less than whatever the cheaper thing was you know?