zeldaring said:
zorg1000 said:
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.
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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. |
Yep, Sony was able to rely on a ton of 3rd party exclusives on PS1/PS2 but many of those big franchises went multi-platform in the PS3/360 era. In that generation 360 was thought to have the better 1st party titles early on with PS3 taking over later on. Sony continued that trend on PS4 while MS saw some of their big 1st party franchises decline in sales and had a hard time creating popular new IP on XBO hence why they have been on a shopping spree this generation.
