disolitude said:
Sales are a nice way to back up ones opinion. However when a console is older and more people have it, it is obviously not going to sell as well as a newer machine. Sony dominance does not start until total sales of xbox are passed and the system is still selling more. I could care less which console sells more mind you. I will have the best gaming console myself no matter even if its last in the sales race. Once PS3 is demolishing xbox and wii in games, I will be here posting about that. Besides, if Japan was not biased towards American companies, and 360 was selling in the same ball park as PS3 in Japan, Xbox would still be winning the sales race. There is no logical reason what so ever why PS3 would sell 40,000 units and 360 5,000 in a week in Japan, other than brand name bias. Even the most hardcore Sony fanboys will have the hardest time arguing how PS3 is 8 times better than 360. Another thought...which is a better console for gaming do you think? 360 manages to keep up with ps3 with one of the markets completely boycotting it and not including a "hot" new technology that has nothing to do with gaming. This is a year later with 7 million units more sold mind you. With a lesser recognizable brand name... Again I say it, thank god for Sony's sake...and people who bought it thus far that PS3 has a bluray player. |
Although I agree with the overall sentement that, given a completely unbiased critical evaluation of both the XBox 360 and PS3 there is little reason why the PS3 should sell dramatically better than the XBox 360, I don't believe that this can simply be blamed on "brand name bias" ...
Microsoft's biggest strength and weakness is that they have created a product and targeted it towards a small but dedicated userbase; the English speaking "core" gamers tend to share very similar tastes in the types of games they want and how they're marketed, and they will spend a lot of money supporting their habit. Microsoft's (and to a lesser extent Sony's) problem is that this targeted approach leaves the majority of gamers completely uninterested in your product and very open to a more generally appealing console. Outside of English speaking countries the PS3 is more generally appealing probably because of subtile differences in the marketing campaigns, and worldwide the Wii is more generally appealing for a wide variety of reasons.
Hopefully, what Microsoft has learned from this generation is that all the shiny bells and whistles are nice features but (in order to be dominant) you must release your console at a more affordable price and have a large library of titles which have a broad appeal. My suggestion to them would be to balance out their library with some high quality exclusive titles which have the same sort of appeal as Nintendo's first party titles.
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