PS5's marketing feels worse than PS4, while Series X's marketing is better than Xbox One's.

[vivster]

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.

If Xbox didn't win any brand power with the X360 it would've flopped even harder this gen. I think you're vastly overestimating the popularity of xbox exclusives. Playstation wins out in sheer quantity and quality of its games. Just look at the charts. Xbox was very much competitive at the start of the gen and then dropped off hard after it stopped actually supplying the console with interesting games. That happened in all 3 of their console generations and there is no reason to believe it won't be the same in the next.