The_Liquid_Laser said:
I am talking about brand rather than raw sales. Brand is the ability to sell a product simply because the company put their name on it. Partly it has to do with how well the best product can do and how well the worst product can do. XBox and Nintendo are both strong brands in the Americas, so maybe they are about the same. I tend to think XBox is a little stronger though. VGChartz has XBox360 at 49.11m and XB1 at 32.47m in North America. There is not much variation there, even though XB1 seems like a clearly worse product than PS4 (higher launch price, weaker hardware, fewer exclusives, etc...). That's a strong brand. Nintendo's brand is strong mostly because of their handhelds. DS sold 57.92m and 3DS sold 25.77m. So the DS has a higher peak and the 3DS was a lower valley. I suppose that makes Nintendo close to XBox, but 3DS didn't have to compete with a product that was clearly better. That is why I'd put XBox a little ahead. (Also Nintendo's home consoles haven't faired nearly as well.) Both are stronger brands than Playstation in North America though. People still like Playstation, but it really hasn't done extremely well since the PS2 days, and it lost that title fairly quickly in the generation after. Americans simply like XBox and Nintendo more than Playstation. |
I don't think America really stays loyal to a "brand" like Europe does to Playstation and Japan does to Nintendo. America follows trends and moves from brand to brand. Nintendo had been the strongest over the past few years, but at this moment in time I'm not sure what company is the strongest as all three are doing quite well when stock allows. It seems like if all 3 brands could produce 100K consoles/week, all three would sell them all.
Clearly XBox is stronger in America than anywhere else, since MS is an American company, but they're not necessarily the strongest all the time.
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