| vivster said: 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. |
Say what you wish, the 360 still sold more software and made more money than Sony's PS3. You underestimate the power of marketing. Halo 4 still outsold majority of PS3 1st party games and that came at the end of the 360 life circle.
The brand power of PS didn't save the PS3's disaster launch and missed communication to its audience. There was a reason Sony had to make the Slim PS3 and remove the fat version much like how MS had to create the S to change the image of the brand from the VCR/Kinect bundled box that the X1 was. If brand power is what you make it out to be than how come the PS3 did not sell 150m consoles like the PS2 did? You know why it didn't sell 150m units? Because unlike the PS2 which was up against two struggling competitors in the Gamecube and Dreamcast, the PS3 was up against the Wii and the 360.. much MUCH better competition.
If Sony stuffs up there marketing on PS5 and Nintendo and Xbox come out swinging than expect the similar results, that goes for any brand, you stuff up your PR than you will be expected to sell less, PS is not immortal, no one is. Sony have been in two generations where their competitors become a little too ambitions which turn out to be their downfalls much like this generation with the WiiU and XB1.
Last edited by Azzanation - on 20 March 2020
