Teeqoz on 24 June 2017
| Carl2291 said: It's a failure in the same way the PS3 was a failure, or the Wii U was a failure. It completely and utterly failed to do what Microsoft expected it to do based on the reveal. They're losing marketshare, they lost pretty much all brand solidarity in mainland Europe and they failed to implement the ideas they had from the start. They killed off Kinect, they lost the firm grasp they had on America and Britain, they lost the grasp they had on the shooter market. Halo and Gears are shadows of what they were on the 360 and 1st party content has stagnated outside of Forza. While the machine may go on to sell a respectable number when all is said and done, when you consider the position they were in prior to announcing Xbox One, the brand itself has shrunk drastically. |
Yes, no sane person would call the PS3 a success even though it ended up selling 85 million. Even if we ignore the major loss for Sony, losing half of your marketshare when you were the dominant player in the industry, and effectively creating a new competitor in the market (if the 360 had performed like the OG Xbox, then bye bye Xbox). And the XBO is a failure in the same regard: MS has lost a lot of marketshare and mindshare in the gaming industry.
