Will Microsoft look for redemption or will they hold off?

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AlfredoTurkey said:

Kerotan said:

Was thinking about this a lot lately. At this point of last gen Sony had started pumping out quality exclusives which won gamers back on their side. It was also around now that they'd had to decide will they release one last wave of games on the ps3 or hold them off for next gen. They chose to go ahead and release gran turismo 6, uncharted 3, god of war ascension, the last of us etc pretty late on the ps3. 

 

Now what will Microsoft do. Their next gen console is probably 2 to 3 years away. Do they pump out another halo, another gears, a few more forzas and maybe even fable over the next 2 years or so on xbox one? Or will they hold off, give the developers more time to perfect and then unleash a bombardment of AAA titles for the xbox 2's first year and launch window.

 

It's hard to know what to do but if they have all their games releasing on xbox one over its last 2 years it's going to be hard to create a top class line up for their next console. What would you do and what do you think they will do? 

I have no idea what you're talking about with the whole "PS3 won gamers back on their side". The 360 not only beat the PS3 in the US, it beat the Wii. lol Sony never caught back up where I live anyway. 

I dont think thats what he meant.

Basically what hes saying is that even though things werent looking good for PS3 in the first few years (heavy financial losses, massive shrinking of install base/marketshare, ton of 3rd party exclusives going multiplat, etc) Sony did not give up and throw in the flag early (Saturn, Xbox, Wii U, Vita), instead they invested a lot into 1st party development & services and cranked out a bunch of big 1st party games and introduced PS+ late in the systems life.

On the other hand, over the generation Microsoft had kinda reeled back on making big hardcore exclusives and was focusing more on their expanded audience they got with Kinect.

This strategy was also prevalent with their successors initial reveals in 2013, PS4 was all about being the console for hardcore gamers while XBO was more concerned with Kinect and being an all-in-one entertainment device.

The way Sony & Microsoft handled the late years of PS3/360 along with the reveals of PS4/XBO helped significantly in Sony regaining consumer confidence in the PS brand and the opposite effect for Xbox.