jason1637 said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
XB1 fell from 80 million units sold lifetime to 50 million units sold lifetime. You can't blame all of that on MS's other current gen mistakes. A large part of it was a lack of quality exclusives, and quickly porting the few good exclusives they had to PC. MS could be at 60 million XB1's sold by now if they kept their exclusives as exclusive. The problem is that 60 million XB1's sold probably isn't enough units sold to make enough money selling those games as just XB1 titles. So they were more or less forced to wave the white flag and basically go 3rd party. (Either that or have another gen where they flat out lost money.)
Sony on the other hand still makes good exclusives and has a lot of them to boot. PS4 will end at 110+ million units sold, so they can easily make enough money selling their 1st party content only on their console. They make more money that way in the long run since the more Playstations they sell, the more money they get from 3rd party console publishing fees. They can keep their games as exclusive content, losing out on PC and Xbox sales, but making the money back in console publishing fees. In the 7-10 year long term this is the smarter move.
But whoever runs Sony now, is like most modern CEOs and after as much profit as quickly as they can possibly make it, long term side effects be damned. If they run their own business into the ground by causing far less PS5's to be sold it doesn't matter to them, because they would rather sell their car today for quick cash, than worry about how they'll get to work tomorrow.
I realize that consoles as a whole have their days numbered. Streaming will eventually take over. I'd just like to see Sony put out one last solid PS5 gen rather than waving the white flag, and then floundering on making PSNow their future. Because IMO that is what they are going to do.
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You can blame it on MS early gen mishaps and them waiting late in the gen to begin building up their 1st party. At the end of 2017 the XBOX has sold over two and a half million less than the 360 and later in the generation the 360 had the Kinect to help boost it sales.
If MS had kept their exclusives only on Xbox it's still unlikely that they would have sold 60m because they would need to have sold over 25m in the last 2 years and the XBO has never sold that well.
The future will be streaming. Once internet speeds becomes stable and consistent consoles will sell less and Sony has been laying the groundwork for this with PS NOW and now bringing games to other platforms. It's better they build on it now or they will get left behind.
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Kinect helped boost 360 sales?
Kinect did absolutely nothing for 360 sales. Not sure what makes you think it did, but thanks for the chuckle. :D
So XB1 only did two and a half million less than 360 year for year in 2017? So at that point aligned sales were neck and neck for the two systems' lifetime sales right?
