Next gen PS5/XB1SX sales ratio will look the same as this gen's. Huge changes in console marketshare require huge changes in the industry.

[DonFerrari]

RolStoppable said:

DonFerrari said:

Care to explain how Sony turned over a 3 year bad momentum on PS3 versus Xbox360 within the next 3 years of that same gen but Xbox One wasn't capable to turn the 6 months bad momentum on X1 vs PS4 in the remaining 5 years?

The PS3 was selling nearly 1:1 with the 360, the LTD gap between the two consoles being largely owed to the ~5.5m headstart the 360 had. At its peak, the 360 was ahead of the PS3 by ~8m, so that's a gain of only ~1m per year until the point where Sony introduced the PS3 Slim.

The PS4 was selling at a ratio of 2:1 or above in comparison to the XB1, so the hill that the XB1 had to climb was much, much steeper.

While people remember how big the blunders were that Sony committed with the PS3, it happens all too often that the situation is portrayed as Microsoft doing everything right at the time. But in reality, Microsoft largely botched their headstart (again, the 360 sold only ~5.5m in the 12 months before the PS3 launched) and then had to deal with the negative PR of the widespread Red Ring of Death.

That doesn't address the second part of the point, on why he believe MS was unable to do anything in the whole gen for the small and short timed problem they had on the start of this gen.

Also if you ask him he will say that MS was winning the last gen the whole time and other stuff such as launch alignment doesn't matter, that PS3 winning all the years of sale except one also doesn't matter, etc.