By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
zeldaring on 29 July 2023
Edit Thread
zorg1000 said:
Megiddo said:

I'd rather be hearing about Series X/S vs PS5 comments since that's far more relevant to today. Like, how has there been seemingly no improvement despite there being much more parity between Series X and PS5 than the generation prior and also having a more budget friendly option in the Series S? And then there's also putting all their first party titles on Game Pass on day one along with several good to great third party releases? Like, how has there not been any change? It baffles me.

Historically, just making a good product hasn’t been enough to take away marketshare, the competition has to make poor decisions.

PS1 was able to succeed Genesis as the “cool and edgy” console because Sega was losing customer confidence by having so many products on the market (Genesis, Game Gear, Nomad, CD, 32x, Pico) then botching Saturn by making it difficult to develop for and having the weird early launch that pissed off developers and retailers. Then Nintendo lost support of the major Japanese 3rd parties by going with cartridges.

With 360, Microsoft was able to gain a bunch of marketshare from Sony mostly due to Blu-Ray causing PS3 to cost $600 (at a huge loss) and being more difficult to develop for, making many multiplats inferior despite being more powerful 360.

Sony was able to claw back a bunch of that marketshare because Microsoft had the terrible idea to make Kinect mandatory (motion gaming was on the decline at this time and it caused XBO to be $100 more than PS4) and the whole DRM fiasco.


Without those major mistakes in each generation than you likely wouldn’t have seen PS1 dominate the market, 360 take half of the PS2 audience or PS4 retake a large part of that audience. Sony didn’t make any major mistakes with PS5 for Microsoft to capitalize on and steal marketshare so it’s essentially a continuation of the previous generation.

While what you say is mostly true. Sony aso knocked out the park when it comes to exclusives on PS4, that's why the domination is even worse this gen. while Microsoft didn't even have one exclusive  sell 10 million.