CGI-Quality said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
The PS4 is selling so strongly because both Nintendo and Microsoft basically did everything wrong with their consoles at the start of this gen. The catastrophic Wii U communication and thus sales plus the disastrous XBO reveal just meant that all Sony had to do is not fuck up hard to win this gen so far.
However, both concurrents have learned from their mistakes. Microsoft brings out the strongest console ever, has ditched Kinect and backpedaled on many other things from it's reveal. Nintendo, on the other hand, brought a sucessor to the unsuccessful Wii U with the Switch and this Hybrid console is selling like hot cakes, potentially outselling the Wii U even in it's launch year of 2017, so without a full year under it's belt!
With both its rivals having gotten stronger with drastically different approaches, it will be interesting to see how the sales of the PS4 will evolve in 2018 and beyond
Oh, and about the fad: It had one at launch: (by far) most powerful console. Yet another point to the list of fails on Microsofts side during the XBO reveal, but with the ONE X the corrected that, albeit way too late. If the PS4 and XBO would have come out with their internal hardware switched, I'm very sure Microsoft would have sold much more XBO and the PS4 not as much, though how big that difference would have been in the end is open for debate. |
I think the disparity between the PlayStation and Xbox is not just down to hardware power and flawed launches. The PlayStation, as a brand, is just far stronger. The situation wouldn't look much different if the power situation was reversed. And a good way to know this is looking at what happened to the Xbox One X. It had absolutely no impact on PS4's holiday sales, suggesting that most people just don't care about that stuff.
Nintendo and Sony are in a very good place, right now. Microsoft will have to find another hook (like the 360) that can really compete again (on top of, needing one of the other two to mess up in a very dramatic way).
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The only hook the 360 had was the Kinect and the fact that they had picked up the pieces Sony left off because they made most of Sony's most prized third party exclusives into multiplats. They created a level playing with third party so people could choose their brand based on internal offerings rather than third party dominance. This generation is more accurate as it showcased and exposed Microsoft's flaw which was visible last gen only to those who pay attention. 2017 was that flaw that came to be realized in bad first party. As their sales have shown, they cannot hide behind third party forever.
