| twintail said: The mistake wouldnt be the same. They are focusing on more user friendly architecture. They have marketing deals for the most important games atm. They have an online sub service that locks in many users into their ecosystem (hence why PS5 will have PS4 BC because they wouldnt want to start that again from scratch). They have the exclusives. Sure they can counter, but they have little need to. |
... presuming that nothing would change apart from the raw power ... and that'd be exactly the same mistake. Apart from the blu-ray and more FLOPS, PS3 brought nothing new to the table. I mean, why would they? PS2 outsold both of its competitors combined almost 3.5:1! It was truly unprecedented domination, despite the fact that it wasn't the most powerful system of its generation. Yet just four years later, MS came up with cheaper system and excellent online service, where Nintendo went with motion controls. Both offered something different from "just more powah" and both turned up to be very successful, especially when compared to their previous systems.
Apart from MS (and probably Sony), no one knows what their plans are for the next gen system, but if they want to be competitive they need to come up with something really impressive. Just another, beefier XB1 won't cut it and I think they know that. And locking anyone in their ecosystem isn't as big in console world as people make it. MS's been "locking" users since 2002, so where all those people are now?
Last edited by Kristof81 - on 11 April 2018
