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Who is MS aiming to take out this gen?

Nintendo 30 2.73%
 
Sony 102 9.29%
 
themselves? 965 87.89%
 
Total:1,097
badgenome on 17 June 2013

Sony and Nintendo have survived their own best efforts to take themselves out, so I don't think the Xbone will hasten their exits. Unless they decide to emulate it for some unfathomable reason.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 17 June 2013
oni-link said:
Let's be truthful here the only reason why people hate the X1 policy is that it makes all those who pirate games or hacks consoles impotent with their ability to do so. REALLY!!!


Wait...you think Microsofts locked down system can keep out hackers and pirates? 



S.T.A.G.E. on 17 June 2013
oni-link said:
PDF said:
oni-link said:
PDF said:
Sony own TV division has a better shot at taking themselves out than MS does.


Sony is not even relevant to the TV industry anymore.  It's all about Samsung and LG.  The Sony brand is an old brand that lost it's cool factor!!! Samsung, LG, Apple, MS, Google etc are the in-thing at the moment!

What was the point of your post? It has nothing to do with playstation brand.  Mine was just a little joke taking a jab at both companies MS and Sony.

Talking about cool factor though, MS has very little.  No one wanted Zune, no one want to use IE, no one wants to use Bing as they are all seem as lame.  MS is really not seen as cool company.  They are seen as really rich company.   Don't get me wrong I actually like many MS products (im a PC, and I dislike apple).


opps nevermind all this Sony fans hating MS got me all defensive.  Actually Zune did ok, IE is still pretty dominant, Bing is gaining ground as is W8 and Surface.  MS is still a powerful brand unlike Sony which is a fledging brand in consumer's minds!!!  Just ask people who they prefer Samsung or Sony.


Zune sold well, MS just dropped it because they couldnt dominate Apple with it. They don't stick with a product if it doesn't at some point overwhelm the competition it was designed to throw off. The only product that is certain is Windows for Microsoft. IE isnt dominant, Google Chrome and Firefox are still the largest browsers.



teigaga on 17 June 2013
oni-link said:
hsrob said:
Beat in sales, possible but at this point highly unlikely.

Take out, virtually impossible unless Sony does absolutely everything wrong from here on out and I don't just mean with the PS4. You're not taking Nintendo out in a single generation, i don't think it's possible. They are an incredibly conservative company and they have enough money in the bank to comfortably ride out several entirely failed home console generations.

This is ignoring the fact that MS is getting almost universally bad press at the moment with the exception of relatively die-hard fans. If i was a betting man I would say Sony is going to win the next generation fairly comfortably, how comfortably depends on how well Nintendo gets their act together in the next 18 months as I still think the WiiU has the potential to be a very popular second console. MS is going to have work very hard from here on out if they hope to see anything like the success of the 360 and I think they run significant risk of running a fairly distant third unless they take major steps to alter their current trajectory.


1.  It's still debatable that PS4 specs outdoes the X1; or that it would provide any meaningful diffrence. Just look at E3 and most games look better on X1 than on PS4...why is that?

2.  X1 had better exclusives and more of it.

3.  MS has deep pockets to make sure the system succeeds.

1. Based on numbers, the ps4 easily wins where CPU and ram is concerned. I do think X1 had a great graphical showing with forza and ryse. The forza developers are far nre experience than sony's evo studios, driveclub is their first sim-ish racer. Ryse is comparably narrow compared to sony's open ended games like Killzone and Infamous, both of which out perform Deadrising IMO. Whether the games were on realistic graphical settings on X1 is also yet to be determined, sony's games were actually running off dev kits.

2. Sony has only announced their launch window exclusives unlike  microsoft, so although I do think Xbox has the edge now, that could change come Gamescon (last year sony announced 5 exclusives there) and TGS. Also for the core gamer, sony actually has more next gen exclusives on launch day including F2Ps and MMOs. That won't matter for casual gamers, but they aren't the gamers likely to pick up a system on its first holiday, especially true when said system costs $500.

3. Sony has a far greater pool of developers. They don't need to throw money at 3rd parties, and service wise they've already got a solid showing with Gaikai and on Demand services. which I think is enough for most peeps.



teigaga on 17 June 2013
oni-link said:
teigaga said:
I assume you mean with the TV functions?

No, that will likely keep the X1 alive but not ahead of sony. The PS4 will likely dominate this christmas, the same audience microsoft is really popular with may not feel the need to upgrade when all relevant games are coming to 360. The ps4 however is likely to be the winner for the tech enthusiasts and hardcore gamers. They automatically creates a shift where people go for online communities, people follow their friends and so who ever starts on the better foot will likely benefit from the snow ball effect of "I'm getting this console, cos my friend has it and I want to play them online.". Sony seem to be planning a big Gamescon conference, so depending on what they reveal they may be pushed into the lead even further.

The X1 is very expensive, especially in the europe. they loose a ton of footing over here and probably loose their lead in the UK.


are you refering to endiminon?

Whats that?



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leo-j on 17 June 2013
oni-link said:
LordPusha said:

They emulated the power of the X1 by using a Nvidia Titan that has 4TeraFlops !? hahhahahhah

I know who's trolling now ...


  Until the systems are released no-one really knows the X1's true capabilities are do they?  Anyways none of those games are running 4TF so that point is moot.  Ask yourself why did MS use that card instead...must be a good reason right?


Yea, they probably didn't want the game to crash on stage, and mess up their conference and their image even further, so they had the games running on a more than capable hardware spec, more then likely that's the reason



 

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endimion on 17 June 2013
teigaga said:
oni-link said:
teigaga said:
I assume you mean with the TV functions?

No, that will likely keep the X1 alive but not ahead of sony. The PS4 will likely dominate this christmas, the same audience microsoft is really popular with may not feel the need to upgrade when all relevant games are coming to 360. The ps4 however is likely to be the winner for the tech enthusiasts and hardcore gamers. They automatically creates a shift where people go for online communities, people follow their friends and so who ever starts on the better foot will likely benefit from the snow ball effect of "I'm getting this console, cos my friend has it and I want to play them online.". Sony seem to be planning a big Gamescon conference, so depending on what they reveal they may be pushed into the lead even further.

The X1 is very expensive, especially in the europe. they loose a ton of footing over here and probably loose their lead in the UK.


are you refering to endiminon?

Whats that?

that's me :P



teigaga on 17 June 2013
endimion said:
teigaga said:
oni-link said:
teigaga said:
I assume you mean with the TV functions?

No, that will likely keep the X1 alive but not ahead of sony. The PS4 will likely dominate this christmas, the same audience microsoft is really popular with may not feel the need to upgrade when all relevant games are coming to 360. The ps4 however is likely to be the winner for the tech enthusiasts and hardcore gamers. They automatically creates a shift where people go for online communities, people follow their friends and so who ever starts on the better foot will likely benefit from the snow ball effect of "I'm getting this console, cos my friend has it and I want to play them online.". Sony seem to be planning a big Gamescon conference, so depending on what they reveal they may be pushed into the lead even further.

The X1 is very expensive, especially in the europe. they loose a ton of footing over here and probably loose their lead in the UK.


are you refering to endiminon?

Whats that?

that's me :P

lol, yes the OP.



think-man on 17 June 2013

I think the xbone will struggle to take out the WiiU



 

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Cypher1980 on 17 June 2013

They are taking themselves out.

They have a table booked in a remote diner without Internet access.

They will eat Humble pie for the entire gen.