Loosely based on what we know, metacritic trends, and rumors.

Destiny with exclusive PS content. Bungie made the 360 and when people hear about the Halo creators being on PS they will be swayed. If I were Sony I would pay them for one of those little playstation blurps at the end of their commercials for the game (like AC gets for PS or COD gets for 360) and also put in the commercial "from the makers of Halo." That would get people to think Sony was getting MS's devs even though they were never really owned by MS.

And? Sony had just come off of the most successful Console of all time and you think outselling the competition 7 years later with it's successor is accomplishment? lol please, when Sony make that money back then ill call it a success. If the PS4 is not a major hit say goodbye to PlayStation.

I think the expansion of PSN is a problem for them. Sony have vastly improved their online infrastructure and are trying to market it as the fastest online gaming experience available.

You could argue that in this gen Live had the advantage in a few areas, cross game chat being a prime example. What if there is no difference between them next gen?

I am sure MS is worried and getting the appropriate counters to what Sony showed. Sony's lowest selling home console is at around 73m, that is 73m that Nintendo and MS would have liked. (although a lot of people own multiple) Sony feared MS would get the hype and that they would end up with another 73m selling console and is trying to not mistakes this time.

I agree with this, I think if MS can release an equivalent powered console, I would stick with them. I do prefer MS exclusives over PS exclusives.

However, I do think MS need to worry about 8gb fast ram and the higher teraflop count. I personally doubt the 720 spec rumours are true, but if they release a system with with 1.2 teraflops and 8gb of slower ram, game over in my opinon. Gamers will migrate to the system that is best for games, and it won't take long for developers to expose system deficiencies, particulary when your system starts to see dips in frame rates for multiplats.

I don't think they are that worried cause they are working hard to make their console appeal to core and casual gamers, as well as pricing competitively.

the thing that really impressed me was the instant playability of games from the store, I have fibre optic so I am really hoping they are going to come good on their promise.

Further information on their new ps+/gaikai package will be looked at very closely, since PS+ I haven't purchased a single retail game (I tend to stop playing games at the end of a generation but PS+ has kept me hooked)

And as I already have a Vita if I had to choose between systems the added functionality would sway me. (this will be a small minority of people with sales at the moment)

To summarize, for MS to get a 'winner' they need:

1. An imaginary game

2. A rumored game

3. A game from an unknown and untested studio.

4. Gameplay of an unseen game.

5. A Random third party deal.

Yeah....gotcha.

Gotta admit MS has been very quiet the last couple years, relying on Gears, Forza, and Halo mostly. And they have acquired a lot of devs in that time as well.