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Imaginedvl on 13 October 2025
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curl-6 said:
Imaginedvl said:

I disagree that Sony is generally better... 4 generations:

- The Play Station 2 and Original Xbox were probably on par (also very hard to really compare as they were simply totally different architectures).
- The Xbox 360 was vastly superior (production cost, easy to develop for the same result, etc) than the Play Station 3 (you call it an exception, but it is basically the same for the Xbox One generation then...)
- The Play Station 4 was vastly superior to the Xbox One (production cost but also power); not even close.

So far, it is pretty much even.

And then you come into this generation with Sony having a HUGE market lead, which pushes everyone to develop mostly targeting the PlayStation 5 and will make better use of the hardware.
I would definitely argue that the Xbox Series X was the most expensive to produce because it is simply more powerful.
Microsoft may have underestimated how difficult it would be (if not impossible) to get back any market share from Sony, but their hardware is definitely very good this time. 

OG Xbox was considerably more powerful than the PS2, it wasn't even close. The gap there was the biggest between the two ever.

Oh for sure, I'm talking about production cost. I do not know to be honest but I assume they were similar; the original Xbox was definitely more powerful obviouslty :)