| curl-6 said: It's clear that the dedicated home console war is over for this gen, with PS5 having crushed the Xbox Series. Do you think there was ever a chance that Xbox Series could have won the sales war, or by the time the current gen began were they just in an unwinnable position and fucked no matter what? |
Start of the generation, or even slightly before, alot of people thought Xbox would be equal too or beat the PS5 in sales.
(I remember polls/threads here, and people were thinking it would be like neck and neck this gen)
Remember all that "it eats monsters, for breakfast" stuff?
(series S will compete in performance with the PS5, while the series X will be half a gen ahead in performance?)
There was a heavy PR and marketing push, and xbox commentators really hyping things up, and controlling the narrative on forums/youtube and such.
There was FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) spread about the PS5, suggesting that it wasn't even really 10,2 Tflops of compute... somehow it was like 7 Tflops, and the overclock theoretical max performance would only be for limited games, when cpu wasn't used much. Xbox side was shameless before gen started. (reality was clocks speed of the gpu, only goes up and down like ~2% depending on load, so its often close to that 10,2 Tflop performance level)
Yes, if Xbox actually did like a much much better job of things,... they could have done much better than they seemingly have.
Reality just didn't play out that way.
