Hiku said:
DJEVOLVE said:
Some of you seem to think MS is selling next to zero, they are making good sales, PS4 is just selling mega-tons. So anything next to that is going to look Meh but last gen Xbox One would have been seen as a very successful system. It will continue to sell well with the games coming. If Phil didn't do what he has done, it would be damn close to what Wii U is doing sales wise, The DRM was a disaster. Really I'm not sure how the hell this got past testing stage or was really taken seriously. This should have been easily focus group tested and disapproved as fast as it was brought up. They would be neck and neck with PS4 with-out. Same with pushing Kinect, they should have seen all of this coming.
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They would not be neck and neck with PS4 even if they had a successful launch. If you think so, then you haven't looked realistically at the market. Xbox is, and always has been, irrelevant in Asia, and much weaker than Playstation in mainland Europe, besides the UK. Successful launch or not. And a succesful PS4 launch would ensure that XB1 doesn't get nearly as much of a lead in the US and UK as it did last gen.,
And even though Japan is a smaller market, it is important because it leads to Xbox getting less Japanese games than Playstation even in the west, which has a bigger effect than some people think. It snowballs into more sales and games for PS, and things like Kojima chosing to make an exclusive for PS instead of Xbox is rekated to this. Even if this was last gen and PS3 and X360 were neck and neck, Kojima still wouldn't chose the 360, because his games, and games like them, just sell a lot less on Xbox. And it's also connected to their performance in Europe, since that audience tends to be of a more diverse taste. What's required for an Xbox to be neck and neck with Playstation, besides MS having a successful launch, is if Sony mess up their launch gigantically, like they did with the $600 PS3 launch. When Playstation has a successful launch, it's going to significantly beat the Xbox by default. Unless they drastically change their image and appeal to suit a wider market than just USA and UK. Them getting their launch correct this time wouldn't make Xbox more appealing to that demographic. We saw that in the previous two generations. The main reason X360 was so successful was because a lot of people jumped from PS2 to 360 because Sony messed up their PS3 launch. They don't have brand loyalty, so they would not be opposed to going back to Playstation again if the opportunity arrises. Again, what Xbox need to do to match Playstation is to make themselves more appealing to Europe and Asia. But they've had 15 years to do so, so it doesn't look like they will. They're too escure in their current brand image to risk something like that.
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I don't really think that is a problem. They were pretty close in Europe last gen. Also, Kojima choose to create an exclusive IP, or did Sony commission the IP to them or promised funding?
As for a way to make themselves known in Europe and Japan, if they announced a Japanese and European lineup AT LAUNCH it would be easier for them to sway players over to their side, since they'd know the Xbox will cover their gaming preferences. Afterwards, if the lineup's good enough, things will snowball naturally.
This, however, means that rather than strike JP deals after launch, they ought to strike them before the gen even starts. The effort that they are putting out now is what they should at launch to succeed in selling their console...
