Captioning the 9th Generation: The Public Suicide of PlayStation

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LurkerJ said:

curl-6 said:

Yeah I gotta raise an eyebrow too at the notion that Microsoft's strategy is more "coherent" than Sony's.

Microsoft's handling of Xbox this generation has been a complete mess, a scattershot of poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented policies, and the result is clear to see in the fact that their console business is basically dead.

People are still buying PS5s; virtually nobody is still buying Xboxes. 

Zoom out of console sales.... Isn't it clear now that Microsoft is doing better in the gaming sector and has a more coherent long-term strategy? Microsoft is not losing when more gamers engage with their devices and Windows operating systems than ever before. What does Sony have to gain from making PC even more popular among the gamers? help Microsoft sell more ads in their start menu?

If you admit that Xbox strategies led to the death of their console business, shouldn't Sony be not adapting any of those strategies or doing anything that is remotely similar? I really don't want to be a smug asshole, but we are all roughly saying the same thing.

Losing one's console business is a pretty big deal.

If Sony's direction was really as disastrous as you claim, we would see its sales tanking, but that isn't happening.