That's something I always noticed before. This seems to be a rare time where the most powerful does win the generation. Sony did play their cards right though, so good job to them. It will be the strongest to win, but not most expensive. The XB1 started as the most expensive, so I wouldn't say the PS4 was strongest and most expensive. If the PS4 was the highest priced, I think the story would have been different from what we see today.

How the next gen will play, who knows~

Truly the best gen for the industry...

http://www.lazygamer.net/24/depressing-list-of-studios-that-have-closed-in-this-generation/

"The most powerful will never wins" and "the most expensive never wins" have always been meaningless arguments and "because it hasn't happened before" is not a reason. That people thought it was some type of gaming law, especially when we're dealing with a sample size of only a few generations, is just silly.

Graphical power is only irrelevant when price outweighs perceived value. Unto itself, it's always a positive. Perceived value is the most important aspect, usually. It's the art of finding the sweet spot on the graph between power and price tag, plus having a compelling catalog of software.

Xbox One is the most expensive console. But I doubt PS4 or Xbox One will be either the most expensive or strongest of this generation by the time other non-traditional manufacturer consoles release, like the Steambox.

Yep but at what costs? In the end it will bring no profits at all only losses. Look at the PS3, Sony was saying that it made profits but in the end it looses billions...

No, it's the mass market that "learned" that tech has to be expensive and from a huge brand to be good (read: cool).

Gamers (or people who are into other types of tech) know that that is not the case (probably that's why it didn't work in the past; gamers simply didn't fall for the price tag :P) while a lot of others like to buy the expensive tech and then brag about it. But there's still the (way way bigger) majority that is always against the leading/most expensive product which creates the modern tech wars that replace old-fashioned things like console wars with their subjective arguments that are always stated as if they were objective and pure fact.

Gamers, in the end, like every console/handheld unless it's a huge mess or weak attempt to join the games industry.

And here we go again with a Sony got luck....

About sega 32x or Cd not counting because it was the end of the gen, snes passed Genesis after gen 5 started so I guess that doesn't count either.

Power was never a hindrance but it used to always come at a cost. Oh, didn't the N64 cost less that PlayStation? Anyway, it sucks that tradition will end this gen. It's like breaking the Undertaker winning streak. I'm saddened.

Wrong. The 3DO was a console, they tried to make videogames as a standard like vhs were for movies. The 3DO couldnt play video cds

I think to really qualify as most expensive you have to be most expensive at launch, not most expensive after a year into the generation. PS4 had already built up huge momentum by the time Xb one got cut down to being the same price as PS4, and PS4's global lead was already unassailable by the time Xb one's permanent price in the USA got down to $350. If PS4 had started out more expensive than Xb one I don't think things would be quite what they are like now.

So no, the most expensive console will not win this generation.

The console with the best specs will win though.