If Xbox Series S is 100$ cheaper than PS5 All-Digital, does Xbox have a legitimate chance of outselling PS5 this gen?

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DonFerrari said:

sales2099 said:

I counted just for you Don, you good people. 249 games as of this post on GP. EA Play adding 60 something games when it merges. You don’t have to play them all, nor can you. You play the games you want to play. And given the high number, the odds of finding what you like dramatically improve. 

I’m not going to give you all the AAA games and the 80+ Metacritic scores of every game on GP. Quality is implied, you can’t have a service grow if everything is shovelware. And leave Nintendo out of this, their pricing of games years later is downright criminal lol. 

It’s a new thing, gaming is not used to a sub model for games. But I tell you once your in it changes your whole perspective. It’s very hard to make a argument that nothing it offers will appeal to people. I just don’t see paying full price even for a game you want as value, as it’s just standard procedure. Value is getting a game you want for cheaper then full price. 

I was using 100 because that was the number on MS ad. And sure if you only consider 80%+ Meta (basically only slightly above average) AAA this number drops immensilly.

I won't ask you to explain how this with the lower price of X1S or higher power of X1X didn't made Xbox sales increase (won't even talk about passing PS4), but at least try to explain if this value was so absolute as you try to pass it (yes I can certainly see it is valuable to you and several million people) why it isn't like 80% of the userbase using it regularly.

Both your points I can only say: Gaming subs are very much in their infancy and it’s hard to retrain habits of gamers used to decades old practices of buying their games, whether online or physical. It’ll catch on eventually. And as for sales stats, I am very much aware that Playstations greatest weapon is also intangible (brand power). I said it above, Xbox has to be objectively better in many respects just to be considered, nevermind overtake an ingrained brand loyalty.