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The PS5 is just a far better designed and planned out console. This has been clear since the start of the generation when everyone hyped up the Series consoles and many trashed the boost clocked RDNA 1.5 PS5 lol. Imagine if there were no stock issues and Sony actually took advantage of the lower BOM and priced the PS5 Digital Edition aggressively following the "slim" release.
What's been holding the PS5 back is shortages at first, then prices and struggling EU economy. Otherwise it's actually performing better than my positive predictions all things considered. Still, PC is definitely stealing market share, even if its main victim here is Xbox so far.
If MS still gives a fuck about hardware, the right thing to do now is to launch the next Xbox in 2026 and hope Sony let them have a headstart. It's a risky move, but less risky than watching the brand crumble for the next 4 years. Another thing they can try is aggressively price drop and again hope Sony wouldn't respond.
Of course they can slowly remedy almost everything by returning to exclusivity or timed-exclusivity (vs PC) and apply it to CoD, but it doesn't seem like that's a direction that interests them. I'm looking forward to seeing what GTA6 does to both consoles.
Edit: I forgot CoD is contract-bound so scratch that.
Last edited by Kyuu - on 03 January 2025
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