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Which region will it be primarily geared towards?

West 159 66.81%
 
East 79 33.19%
 
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IsawYoshi on 03 February 2013

They need to try. Japan might just be lost to nintendo in the handheld market, and if they do the same stuff with the wii u, they will claim the console market too. Europe is already sony's. America is the one they need to go for.



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bonkers555 on 03 February 2013
Somini said:
bonkers555 said:
curl-6 said:
The territories lost in the last console war must be retaken, for the greater glory of Sony!

All homes harboring Xboxs shall the torched, and their owners hung in public by 360 controller cords.

The consoles and games themselves will be thrown into a giant landfill, and sealed with cement so that they may never see the sun again. The land shall then be salted, so that no living thing shall grow where the accursed filth rots.

All employees of Microsoft will be given a choice, to convert to the One True Gaming Corporation, or die.

Any who dare speak the name "Xbox" shall have their tongues cut out, and any who writes or type it shall have their fingers chopped off.

Praise be to Sony, and death to Microsoft!

You are a sad person, very sad.

Wow just wow!!! Hoe can one not see the humour in his post!! The Xbox must indeed be very strong with this one........

OT: maybe Sony wants to retake some of that lost marketshare back in the US. Let's see if this will help! Where did Nintendo announce the Wii U by the way?

Don't worry buddy. I haven't forgot our bet and it looks like I'm going to win unless Sony shipped over 8 million PS3 this quarter.



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Somini on 03 February 2013
bonkers555 said:
Somini said:
bonkers555 said:
curl-6 said:
The territories lost in the last console war must be retaken, for the greater glory of Sony!

All homes harboring Xboxs shall the torched, and their owners hung in public by 360 controller cords.

The consoles and games themselves will be thrown into a giant landfill, and sealed with cement so that they may never see the sun again. The land shall then be salted, so that no living thing shall grow where the accursed filth rots.

All employees of Microsoft will be given a choice, to convert to the One True Gaming Corporation, or die.

Any who dare speak the name "Xbox" shall have their tongues cut out, and any who writes or type it shall have their fingers chopped off.

Praise be to Sony, and death to Microsoft!

You are a sad person, very sad.

Wow just wow!!! Hoe can one not see the humour in his post!! The Xbox must indeed be very strong with this one........

OT: maybe Sony wants to retake some of that lost marketshare back in the US. Let's see if this will help! Where did Nintendo announce the Wii U by the way?

Don't worry buddy. I haven't forgot our bet and it looks like I'm going to win unless Sony shipped over 8 million PS3 this quarter.

Your comment has nothing to do with i said earlier!!!

As long as they have outshipped the 360 all is good ;)



bertlsenix on 03 February 2013

To what does Europe count?
This is their strongest territory and their biggest fanbase thanks to the different needs in variety of genres.
Japan is their sure win at the console market...Not talking about Handhelds.Nintendo won't stand a chance at the CONSOLE Battle when 3rd Party is going again Sony/M$ only cause the hardware differences are to big to justify ports.

The USA is as long as CoD and Halo are doing good lost territory and wasted money.
At the end it will be again  PS4+PC+WiiU(emulator) over the whole gen to get every good thing to play.



Andrespetmonkey on 03 February 2013

At this point in time in the current gen over 80M home consoles have been sold in Europe. If I were Sony I'd go all out in my strongest territory. Why struggle for a stronghold with the odds against you in NA when domination is a lot more probable in a similarly sized market?



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curl-6 on 03 February 2013
Somini said:
bonkers555 said:
curl-6 said:
The territories lost in the last console war must be retaken, for the greater glory of Sony!

All homes harboring Xboxs shall the torched, and their owners hung in public by 360 controller cords.

The consoles and games themselves will be thrown into a giant landfill, and sealed with cement so that they may never see the sun again. The land shall then be salted, so that no living thing shall grow where the accursed filth rots.

All employees of Microsoft will be given a choice, to convert to the One True Gaming Corporation, or die.

Any who dare speak the name "Xbox" shall have their tongues cut out, and any who writes or type it shall have their fingers chopped off.

Praise be to Sony, and death to Microsoft!

You are a sad person, very sad.

Wow just wow!!! Hoe can one not see the humour in his post!! The Xbox must indeed be very strong with this one........

Glad some people found it funny! :)

 

 

bertlsenix said:

At the end it will be again  PS4+PC+WiiU(emulator) over the whole gen to get every good thing to play.

Why not just get an actual Wii U? Correct me if I'm wrong but I doubt Wii U emulation will be available for some time. And if they're games you want to play, why not support the people who made them by buying the console and games?



platformmaster918 on 03 February 2013
curl-6 said:

The territories lost in the last console war must be retaken, for the greater glory of Sony!

All homes harboring Xboxs shall the torched, and their owners hung in public by 360 controller cords.

The consoles and games themselves will be thrown into a giant landfill, and sealed with cement so that they may never see the sun again. The land shall then be salted, so that no living thing shall grow where the accursed filth rots.

All employees of Microsoft will be given a choice, to convert to the One True Gaming Corporation, or die.

Any who dare speak the name "Xbox" shall have their tongues cut out, and any who writes or type it shall have their fingers chopped off.

Praise be to Sony, and death to Microsoft!

EDIT: If it's not obvious, this is 100% NOT serious, and purely a parody.

hahahahahahah omg this is totally my sig now best freaking comment in history!




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NobleTeam360 on 03 February 2013

Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo for me screw Apple



Legend11 on 03 February 2013

I just don't see any way they could "win" the U.S. Does anyone here really believe that they'll spend more in advertising in the U.S. than Microsoft? That they will come out with a new IP that will be more popular than Halo? If they couldn't even do it near the end of this generation when Microsoft was basically saving the bulk of their games for next generation why would they be able to do it with the PS4?

Anyone that thinks the PS4 is going to take the the U.S. is just wishful thinking and hoping for some miracle game or that the strategy that hasn't worked for Sony in the past might suddenly start working now. If anything I think Sony is going to lose more ground in Europe to Microsoft than Microsoft would ever lose to Sony in the U.S.

The reason why is because unlike North America where both the Xbox and Playstation brands are very mature there are some European countries where the Xbox brand has almost no presence and as Microsoft establishes the brand more in those countries their sales in them will increase.



platformmaster918 on 03 February 2013
curl-6 said:
UnitSmiley said:
NightDragon83 said:
UnitSmiley said:
Sony will have to work extremely hard to win America. i actually don't see it happening. I think a lot of people will stick with the 360 no matter what Sony brings to the party next gen. Unfortunately everything in the US is a popularity contest and Microsoft is the absolute best at making everyone believe they are the coolest.

As long as the Nextbox establishes itself as being the "cool" or "hip" console. Nothing Sony can offer will tear those people away.

I live in the US and I would absolutely love to see a Sony dominance here, I just don't see that happening. I look around and all I see are people who are loyal to the 360 simply because it's popular. Most of them stick to the same old arguments from early this gen (PS3 has no games). Most people I talk to still believe that to be true. Obviously it isn't but if they havn't figured that out by now they probably aren't all that into videogames. they just play a few, the big blockbusters that all their friends have.

I believe the "gamers" here have no interest in anything that isn't trendy atm. I'm fairly certain the fanbase that Microsoft has managed to amass this gen will easily transition to the Nextbox regardless of anything else.

If you live in the US, haven't you've already seen plenty of Sony's dominance over the past 2 console generations?  Sony has already had their time in the sun as the "cool" and "hip" videogame company in NA during the PS1+2 eras, just as SEGA did back in the 16-bit era.  Now it's M$'s time in the sun.

It is pretty funny though watching Sony fans lament the fact that the very things that worked in Sony's favor during the PS1+2 days like the "cool and hip" factor, trendy marketing (remember the Crash Bandicoot anti-Nintendo ads?), being the console of choice for "mature" gamers, huge 3rd party library etc, are now working against them and in favor of M$.

Now all of a sudden they pretend like none of those things matter, and all you hear Sony fans talk about is how they have the best 1st party exclusives and how Sony deserves to be the defacto leader of the videogame industry because they "care" so much about it since it's now the primary focus of the company.  Hmmm, now where have I heard all that before?  Oh right... sounds just like everything Nintendo fans were saying back during the N64/GC days, doesn't it?

No not at all because the "trendy" factor back then was so insigficant compared to the way it is now. The PS1/PS2 did well because they were great. The last two gens the most popular consoles were the ones that offered the most to gamers. The success Microsoft had this gen with the 360 is (IN MY OPINION) mostly due to the trendy/cool/hip factor NOT because they offered the most to gamers, THAT is the difference.

This gen has easily brought more nongamers/casuals into the market than previous gens and Microsoft gathered a ton of those people due to marketing and establishing itself as the "coolest" console.

So, just to be clear:

- When Sony wins it's because they deserve it, but when others win they don't.

- Casual gamers are second class citizens and don't deserve a say in which console is the most successful.

Sounds a bit elitist to me.

just look at which franchises sold the most during PS2 and what people were talking about.  It was GTA, DMC, Ratchet, Jak, Sly, Madden, Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, God of War.  The only casual one of those would be Madden.  Now look at Xbox and everyone's playing Kinect, COD, 2k basketball, Halo, Gears, Forza, and Madden.  3 of those could be considered hardcore and they are they are all made by MS to be fair, but Sony never charged for online or had to advertise the crap out of things (when they tried it was just weird commercials).  They were awesome because their system offered more exclusives and more value (multimedia and free online) than xbox ever has.




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