The Sorry State of Microsoft's First Party

[Farsala]

Chris Hu said:

Farsala said:

@bold Not sure what you are considering launch, but the XB1 did pretty well at launch until they admitted their error with the forced kinect. After that all sales dropped in anticipation for the new kinectless SKU's. Titanfall and other games kept the forced kinect SKU's selling quite well during launch.

I'm pretty sure the launch would have been a lot better if the system would have been $100 dollars cheaper and launched without the Kinect.  The PS1 kicked the Saturns ass at launch since it was $100 dollars cheaper, of course launching the 32X late in the Genesis life cycle and loosing Electronic Arts as a third party publisher didn't help either.

Of course it would have been better. But I don't consider the XB1 to have a terrible launch. It was pretty close with the PS4 considering the circumstances.