Advice? No. Repeating what another guy said and coming off smug? Yes.

I'm not getting defensive, just fed up with people on this forum telling others what to do. Tone down the smug if you're trying to give other people advice.

I intentionally said "bigger," as opposed to "better." According to a 2014 survey, Ford has better brand perception than Chevy (the Fiat-Ferrari-etc. group), and Ferrari goes completely unmentioned. I'd be willing to wager that's simply a result of brand awareness; Ford IS selling hundreds of thousands more cars than Ferrari (If you use an order of magnitude analysis, Ferrari effectively sold 0 cars in comparison.). When we look at the XBox v. PS issue, the XBox is cheaper, is being bought for the brand, and is getting crushed by the PS. I'm sure you agree that this all gets very semantical very quickly, but international reach should be considered a component of brand strength. PS, like Ford, has massive, multi-level consumer appeal that XBox simply doesn't. What I've never fully understood, however, is why the PS seems to have a deathgrip on the EU. This is especially peculiar, because I think it's fair to say that MS is a bigger brand than Sony.

The survery link: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/02/2014-car-brand-perception-survey/index.htm

Nah, that survey doesn't represent the whole gaming population.  You just have to look at history that almost every console that had won the console war had been the weaker one.  Do you think that if ps4 was the one with 900p on their games whereas xbox is the one with 1080p, xbox one would have been winning? that doesn't make any sense. 

Believe me, resolution is the least of the problem for xbox one.  Resolution is for console war mainly for the internet, in reality it's not important.

again, why would you buy a ford, they make meh cars with meh tech and meh design.   there are so much better choices if you want  car that isnt as expensive as a Ferrari

playstation and xbox are both very changeable.

They dont are something special.

As soon ea, ubisoft and acitivsion would make a deal for a own consoles and would start only releasing new games on their own system, playstation and xbox would be dead.

Nintendo is the only gaming company who enough on their own.

Also overall console sales, nintendo is still at the lead in every generation of you count in handhelds.

what do you think would xbox one sale without any third party support?
They just sell about double of wii u per month, but get all the third party games.

Also xbox mostly sell well because of usa.

in my country, xbox and wii u sell each month about the same. And the wii u got like no third party game in the past 6 month.

gameboy and gameboy color where listed as 1 product in vg charts which sold 118 mio units.

Ps2 sold more though ur right.

Microsofts best console sold on par with Sony's worst selling console. There is barely a comparison outside of library.

I would say you see Playstation around more on things, but Nintendo is the most known.

MS will sell 30-40 million Xboxs no matter what, they can profit in that range if they play it smart. What they can not do is waste billions of dollars fighting a fight they cant win

That's exactly it: I could give you many reasons, especially on a survey, to buy a ford over a Ferrari that are not "brand." The PS4 is a perfect example of a megabrand's product having many reasons to buy it over the competitor that go way abobe and beyond just "brand:" more games, better 3rd party support, better exclusives, more powerful hardware, better controller, and a lot of other things that tend to be associated with the platform. I think that survey tells us very little useful information, aside from that is what buyers picked as their #1 purchasing reason.

Here's something to consider, though: what if by "brand," the consumers meant MS and not XBox?