| d21lewis said: I made sure to word it vaguely in the OP but I think 360 titles outsold the PS3 version more often than not. I think PlayStation normally won out with games like Final Fantasy and titles that just "felt right" on PS (Metal Gear, for example) but games that catered to a Western audience (FPS, WRPG, Sandbox, etc) were solidly in the Xbox camp. I'm going off of memory which can be flawed, of course. It's crazy how things can change over the course of a new generation. |
I think that this could be explained by the largest share the 360 held in the US, the region with the highest tie-ratio. This gen, the PS4 has a decent lead in the US, a massive one on the EU/ROW and Japan as a bonus. It's hard for X1 to outsell PS4 in anything when the base is smaller in all big regions.
The thing with consoles is that gens are simply a way to start from scratch. It's fair game for everyone. That's why I always laugh when people say we won't have gens anymore. Do they think MS wants to be stuck forever in a gen where they are being completely destroyed? No way.
If you look at markets that are not gen based, but simply more cyclic, market leadership changes are either extremely slow, caused by a incredible sequence of screw-ups, or caused by a disruptive new tech.
