Wyrdness said:
The reality says otherwise PS3 came out because of this very fact, MS announced in the Xbox's third year the 360 is come which forced both Sony and Nintendo to respond. The reason being is when you're a direct competitor you cannot allow the competition a significant head start even when you're market leader as you allow them to gain ground on you, PS2 wrecked the competition but it's successor was given a battle of the ages, had they not responded the gen could have been much worse it's similar to the Megadrive/Genesis situation where even though SNES went on to outsell it Sega made a massive amount of ground on their competitor which is problematic going forward for Nintendo if they had built on it properly and Sega were well positioned to had they not self sabotaged themselves. |
Being $200 more expensive and having a very complex architecture to develop games were one of the major disadvantage factors the PS3 when it launched a year later than the 360, had the PS3 released at the same price as the 360 and with similar architecture, maybe another different story would have been.
PS4 and PS5 generations showed different results
