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PotentHerbs on 19 March 2020
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Azzanation said:
vivster said:

What are you talking about? Sony hasn't lost a single bit of its brand power since the PS2. That's why people were flocking to the PS3 despite being objectively the worse option. In the end they pulled it out with constant support and a breadth of first class exclusive games. And they took exactly that proven track record over to the PS4. People had to buy the PS4 because they wanted to have the best games again. Hell, TLOU and UC alone made people choose PS4 because of the promise of sequels. And in this gen Sony just continued to deliver top exclusive games even late into the gen while X1 did not and tanked. Even in PS4's last year it gets a mega blockbuster like FFVII Remake all for itself. What do you think people will buy to get the next part of the game?

People know this and will once again choose PS over XB because it is basically guaranteed to have great exclusive games yet again, including high demand sequels of PS4 games. At this point the PS5 is too big to fail, because it builds upon an incredibly stable legacy. That's brand power at work world wide and not just globally in the US. That is what brand power is. People will buy your product not because it is good but because they trust that it will be good.

No you are wrong. If that was the case than 360 would have earnt a lot of brand power last gen since it was the console that set the standards. Halo outsold UC and TLOU, Forza put GT in its place and Gears was as good as God of War. Brand power isn't the sole reason the PS4 was successful, the fact its direct competitors slipped over was a major piggy back for the PS4 to sell, it wasn't just the X1 but the WiiU as well. That's a double win for the PS4 knowing that it basically went in with no threats. If we swapped the PR slip up, the Kinect and price point on both X1 and PS4 than expect the X1 to have outsold the PS4 like the PS4 outsold the X1. Marketing was a huge selling point for the PS4 over the X1. At launch X1 had the exclusives and due to the bad PR, no one cared about the games.

That's just launch though. The gen wasn't a lost cause in 2014 or 2015. MS could have comeback as unlikely as it is. 

Xbox One had more price cuts, revisions, and deals than the PS4 had in its lifetime. MS has turned things around tremendously since the DRM fiasco including de-bundling Kinect and permanent price drops for the XOne. They won a few NPD's in 2015. You're telling me that MS couldn't be competitive 2016 on? MS can't expand in the territories where they're non - existent or not available? All because of a PR blunder that happened in 2013? Sounds like an excuse.

If we swapped scenarios, XOne wouldn't have out sold PS4 as much as the PS4 outsold the XOne currently, because Sony has compelling software like Uncharted 4, God of War, Horizon & Spiderman that moved hardware and sold 10+ Million units (which is being conservative), they have a global reach, and simply a bigger brand in gaming. PS4 would have come back just like the PS3 did. Brand power is a big reason why Xbox at the same price can't outsell a PlayStation at the same price outside of a few regions.