Pemalite said:
javi741 said:
I know I'm late to this but whatever.
The only possible way that Xbox could come even close to the PS5 in sales is if Sony literally screws up in almost every way kind of like the PS3.
The disaster of the PS3 is giving people the false notion that the console wars between Xbox & Playstation is close when it isn't. Really it's only close in North America & the U.K, but outside of that Playstation always will dominate Xbox globally.
Despite the PS3 launching at essentially 800$ in 2021 USD, worse online, inferior multiplats, and Xbox having great first-party exclusives, better mulitplats, online, having a year headstart on the PS3 and the Kinect being a huge selling point. The PS3 was still able to outsell the 360 Globally and for the most part, the PS3 was always selling faster than the 360 when they competed head to head. Sony today is too smart to allow another PS3 disaster to happen again. Not even the 360 was able to outsell the PS3 with a 2-1 ratio despite the PS3 looking like the far inferior console to most Americans. How could the Series X possibly do it with no major advantages over the PS5.
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People seem to forget that the Xbox 360 had it's own mishaps that held it back and damaged the brand as well.
Aka. RROD.
Sony wasn't the only company to drop the ball, they just dropped more balls and more often.
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Going to put this down mainly due pricing. It sorta mirrors what happened in the 2 gens prior with the origional PlayStation and Sega Saturn. One launched significantly cheaper than the other while offering new and fresh games and exclusives. And we had a similar situation last gen whereas MS drop the ball with the prelaunch of the Xbox One MS with them trying to market DRM and flog the whole TV/Cable/motion thing on us and at a higher price point.
Think both parties have learned not to dip into the $599 range for consoles or price $100 or more from the competition. Xbox should sell more this generation than the last though I can't see it ever 'catching up' never mind surpassing PS in global sales.
