If Microsoft ends up winning with the less powerful, more expensive console, what's left?

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Touma on 21 January 2014

fallen said:

With signs such as the PS4 knack bundle selling almost none on Amazon UK today (check with Amazon trick) and Titanfall generating huge buzz, along with Microsoft's success at keeping Xbox One well supplied allowing it to win December NPD, it feels like while it may take a few months and it's too early to say, the tide could be turning for Xbox One.

So if Microsoft wins with pretty much every deficiency possible-the horrible DRM PR, less power, more expensive- is there anything Sony and Nintendo can do? Just give up?

You think really people want to buy the knack bundle when they can have the PS4 in 8 days for £349?

Here the best sellers on amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/videogames/ref=sv_vg_h__12

PS4 #1

Knack bundle is #28

Knack bundle was very slow too on amazon US when the PS4 alone was available in December.

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d21lewis on 21 January 2014

If the Xbox One won, it would continue 30+ years of tradition where the strongest never won. PS4 is ruining tradition.

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Fusioncode said:
I seriously hope this is a joke thread.

It's not.

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lucidium on 21 January 2014

d21lewis said:
If the Xbox One won, it would continue 30+ years of tradition where the strongest never won. PS4 is ruining tradition.

30 year olds tend to do that, it'd the run up to midlife crisis age.

Wasn't the Wii basically 30 years after the first Nintendo console?

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d21lewis said:
If the Xbox One won, it would continue 30+ years of tradition where the strongest never won. PS4 is ruining tradition.

But the most expensive has also never won.

Either way the universe is exploding.

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lucidium on 21 January 2014

JoeTheBro said:

d21lewis said:
If the Xbox One won, it would continue 30+ years of tradition where the strongest never won. PS4 is ruining tradition.

But the most expensive has also never won.

Either way the universe is exploding.

Paradox!

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EdHieron said:

FlamingWeazel said:

EdHieron said:
With the way PS4 has taken off, it doesn't look like it will. BUT if Xbox One does win it will be because of the $1 Billion that they invested in Exclusive ( or X1 and PC ) Core Games that Sony and Nintendo weren't reportedly able to match, and if they do win due to the strength and amount of core games on their system, it's a good thing.

Sony don't need to match the 1 billion, sony has a way more effective strategy in hiring good people and building their own studios................... Not renting them like MS.

Yeah, but how many are they going to have? The people I've been listening to

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say that Sony's just not in the same financial position that they were in with PS3 to keep throwing Exclusive after Exclusive out to hopefully see if anything will stick these days. Meanwhile Titanfall the Biggest Exclusive of the Next 6 Months or until Halo 5 comes out is on the way to Xbox One.

Yet sony has just as many exclusives and more in development, and will keep outselling x1. Sony has the same large internal studios they did with ps3...they will keep making games you think sony is going to pay them to sit down and do nothing??? Sony will always have a steady stream of them. Many of sony's big ones are not announce,d unlike MS they were smart and will spread out announcements and not blow their wad at once.

Thats the benefit of a good first party.

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veritaz on 21 January 2014

Seriously Fallen? I thought you learned from the countless other threads where you try and bash PS4 on amazon. You have been proven wrong in those threads every time.