| Intrinsic said: you doing it wrong the second you start comparing across generations like that. so many different factors can slant your results. The Xbox brand as a whole is significantly much better competition in NA to the PS4 than it was to the PS2. you should also compare it to how it's faring against it's last console. Which in this case is the PS3. The 360 dominated NA last gen. for MS to be losing NA to the PS4 this gen is all the win Sony needs in NA. Well that and for it to do better than whatever the PS3 did over there. |
I don't want to go in to the defininition of success argument. In that case all anything needs it for a flop to happen and anything afterwards is a breakaway success.
I was pointing out how they've lost sales/marketshare since their earlier consoles in certain regions while growing in other markets (and yes, obviously there are many factors involved). NA is no longer the powerhouse it was for PS (and Japan for that matter). Cumulative sales of the PS2 saw only 2m in the difference between NA and EU. There will be likely be a 10m sales gap this gen in those regions. It will be interesting when the PS4 is finished selling to see how it compares to the PS2 region to region, to see how the market has shifted since then.
