| Madword said: Sony are in a great position. In fact its a reversal of what happened last gen. Sony were pushing games all over the place, but they could never compete with MS on price. So everytime Sony reduced the price, MS did the same. Now MS has the problem, but they also have the issue that they have seemingly given up on development again and Sony are pushing games out at an amazing rate. Scorpio comes out with a lack of 1st party, Sony drops the price of the Pro, maybe even the slim, brings out the big hitters (Spiderman is apparently this year - which would be crazy, that would then mean GOW march next year). No good having new hardware if all that people are going to be talking about is the massive amount of games, and even more importantly the exclusives that you cannot get on said new hardware. yet again they've missed the point (well I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks if MS have learnt their lesson, i suspect not). |
Sony never really had an issue with games with Microsoft. They were already beating them with exclusives from mid last gen. In fact last gen exposed how little Microsoft had because their first party was questioned towards the end of last gen. Im sure you can still find articles begging the question about Microsoft was going to put out more exclusives on the Xbox 360 towards the end of the gen while they were focused on the Kinect. Sony was expected by analysts to catch up to the Xbox 360 by 2011 based on their initial sales numbers with the PS3. Problem is they didnt anticipate the years head start, the price and the kinect would slow their ascent to taking their place from Microsoft before the end of the generation. Luckily the Kinects popularity only lasted for two years and Sony had the ability to show off their main exclusives Last of us (among a long list of other games) that opened the floodgates of popularity. Between the 2012-2013 period sony had done what no other brand had ever done and closed a nearly 10 million console gap. Sony created a self inflicted wound by risking its business health to save Blu Ray as a format. Sony won back the gamers good graces and here we are today with the PS4. Business as usual.
