| Dallinor said:
I was commenting on the use of the word dominating. Sure argue semantics, yes it's winning the point is that it's had an easy ride. The PS4 might have gigantic appeal in EU and ROTW, but there's definitely plenty of work to do in NA. Try looking at the bigger picture rather than keeping score. |
So you don't consider winning the US by over 2:1, to losing it by over 2:1 and back to winning it as something worthy of praise?
And you talk about the bigger picture.... sheer nonsense. The real bigger picture here is that what you consider to be it being "handed" to them were all based on decisions that MS made. That Sony didn't make. Not just even talking about their policies, but down to how the hardware was built. Those decisions are also on the company you know? win or lose, companies don't get a free pass on the choices they make. Same way how the PS3 lost market share based on design choices Sony made which dictated the price and complexity of the hardware. All things that ended up affecting Sony. Hell, circa 2012 people even were saying the PlayStation brand was dead and the PS4 would be DOA.... and you know what? thats the same that was said about the Xbox before the 360 released and a sentiment that was carried even after release until Sony had its E3 and announced $599.
And lastly, that big picture you talk about... you cannot mention global success and in the same sentence dismiss it. The big picture, especially if you aren't trying to keep score which is literally what you are doing.... is that Sony is winning globally. Its the best selling 8th gen console by a large margin. It doesn't matter if its only 2/3M ahead in one territory, behind in another or winning in another. Globally its winning, and the big picture is that that is all the publishers care about. When you are counting money, you look at care about the total not about how many 5s or 10s you have.
It won NA in a month where the XB1 had a new SKU and a just as low priced SKU as the lowest priced PS4 SKU. No.... it doesn't have plenty to do in NA. Its done just fine so far.
Lastly, here is another "big picture" thought for you..... Do you realize that MS would rather be 5M behind in NA if that meant they could be 5M behind in EU and only 2M behind in japan? Why/ That would mean overall they are only 12M behind the pS4 in global sales. Think about that.
