The "consoles are dead" years were hilarious in retrospect

[DonFerrari]

Trumpstyle said:

DonFerrari said:

I would say that one reason why se saw the X360+PS3 to X1+PS4 decrease is because there was a lot more reason to own both consoles in the X360 era than on X1/PS4 and now, it was a much better competitor to PS than any other console have been in the 5 gens mainly because of the exclusives that would have even people that are PS fans buying the console.

yeah maybe, I did own the xbox 360 :) played halo and gta5. Microsoft did have stronger games back then, unfortunely for them Call Of Duty dethroned both Halo and Gears of war.

Another reason could be Sony is looking to maximaze profit and not console hardware sales. As Sony probably could had release another ps4 slim and dropped price further.

Both companies could have dropped the price more, but likely both saw that a price contest would just make them lose money without enough sales won to justify it. Even PS4Slim calculation of like dropping 100 USD when PS5 launched would need like 10 or 20M of consoles sold to make sense (based on the revenue from PS+ and SW that they could get).