haxxiy said:
RolStoppable said:
I am going to list the points in order of importance in the PS5 vs. XSX battle:
1. Price
2. Performance of multiplat games
3. Regional preference/bias
4. Exclusives
It's looking very, very likely that Microsoft has secured point 2 (I doubt that third parties will prefer shorter loading times above higher fidelity, because better graphics has always been an easier selling point for games), but that wouldn't mean much if they can't nail the price. The XSX's performance advantage won't be worth an extra $100 to consumers, that's certain. Point 3 is something that is pretty much set and that neither company can change with a lot of help from the other company; Microsoft can count on an advantage in the USA and the UK if they cover point 1 and 2, Sony can count on the rest of the world. Exclusives can provide an extra edge, but most of the bestselling games on PS and Xbox consoles are multiplats.
In any case, if Microsoft gets point 1 and 2 right, then your thread is going to faceplant hard. I hope everyone realizes that point 1 and 2 aren't particularly difficult things to get right; they don't require any special skills or talent, but are rather just about providing powerful hardware at a good price. It's something that Microsoft failed at spectacularly in the previous generation, but it's usually the biggest mistakes that console manufacturers try to correct the most with their follow-up console.
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Nintendo had 1 and 2, and hell, even 4 sometimes with the GameCube, and tell me how that turned out Rol. You are old enough to remember the $99 price cut, and I won't accept this retroactive narrative that a 2D Mario title or whatever was missing back then, because we have the Wii U to fill in most of these.
So far, from internet and social media statistics, search engine trends, reception and sales of current consoles and games etc. there is no reason to believe the next gen won't be a repeat of this one, or even more lopsided in Sony's favor. None whatsoever.
To try to gauge a hypothetical reason as to why you think that would be different is based, at best, in a number of extremely dubious and imprecise factors. As to everything else, there's no magic formula that guarantees success, except perhaps for success itself.
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