not gonna happen,the 399$ xone is already losing steam... sony won over the publics heart,stronger hardware, gonna have the better multiplats, better quality first party imo,psn+ is fantastic ect ect

I posed that same question to a few friends of mine that recently purchased PS4 consoles for their households. For clarity, the group of us are older gamers with children, have played video games for 15+ years, and are middle-class incomes living on budgets. Below are the answers I was given...

1. The production of many games is similar across both consoles...Assassin's Creed IV, FIFA, Madden, Call of Duty: Ghosts, etc.

2. The PS4 was cheaper for the stand alone system at launch. Although you receive the Kinect with the Xbox One, the bottom line was price.

3.  They were not over-concerned with differences of video/audio quality, 1080p is 1080p. None of us could really tell any differences when I took my Xbox One to their house and we compaired game picture/audio quality.

I am certain that some of the commonalities will change, but will it be for better or worse?

As things stand it won't ever pass the PS4. Sony has countered everything that Microsoft have done to make the Xbox One enticing.

They need to really push CoD this year, exclusive bundles and try to get 360 players to upgrade.

Phil Spencer has done a great job repairing the Xbox One's reputation but has some way to go.

Except that in all the recent gens the relative positions of the consoles in sales by the time they've been on the market for 6-7 months was predictive of how the whole gen would end up.

Things are close between PS4 and Xb one in the USA so the first 6/7 months isn't so clear cut as previous generations. However PS4 has far more in its favour than Xb one: It's in the lead for starters; it is a more powerful console; the multiplats are better, even if only in resolution and frame rate; Playstation was uberdominant for 2 of the last 3 generations, Xbox has never been dominant in any generation. The only thing Xb one has is that 360 dominated PS3 last generation.

PS4 is more likely to stay ahead than Xb one to overtake it. But Xb one is in with a chance. In my view Xb one will probably stay behind PS4 in the USA But it will be the smallest gap between the two brands of the 3 generations.

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I think it is feasible that the xbone overtakes the ps4 in the US--whether or not it can achieve that by next year I don't know--but I do not believe it can take the market by anywhere near the margin it did last gen.

It's unlikely that price alone can get Xbox One ahead of Playstation 4. Even when Playstation 3 reached the price of Xbox 360 the latter still sold more. The U.S. Game market is very fickle when it comes to consoles and nothing is ever set in stone

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I seriously doubt the Xbox One will ever overtake the PS4 in sales, North America or Global. If the numbers were closer during the first 6 months following launch, it could be possible. However, the PS4 has continued to outsell the One despite game releases, etc. Microsoft has announced a price drop (without a Kinect), but Sony has also given advance notice that the PS4 will see a $50 price drop for the winter holiday sales.

If the PS4's sales performance continues to overshadow the One until the November holidays this year, it will be almost impossible for the One to ever pull ahead. Any finance marketing textbook would agree with that assessment based on the numbers.