@PAL360 said:
X1 reveal was very controversial (mandatory kinect, mandatory online connection, higher price, etc). Now, after the 180° turn, it turned into a good console but it's probably too late to regain all the positive popularity.
It's selling pretty good, though, just not as good as PS4.
Good answer.
The core simple fact is they launched first which in every other year would have been good, but they decided to stick some controversial moves in there, many of which Sony also planned on (mandatory ps eye / higher price / online connection) but Sony had the benefit of seeing the public reaction abd changing plans at the last second.
Which in a nutshell made MS look like the bad guy and PS the good guy - in marketing that's a huge win for Sony.
Secondly, well these things tend to switch every 5-10 years, PS was flavour of the month for several years, then it was Xbox, now Sony - it's a simplification of a larger psychological trait, but patterns do happen.
Thirdly, it's been hyped beyond all belief thanks to the above 2 factors - and thanks to a minor increase in power that's a hook fanboys can use to further hype the machine. Hype = sales and even for those not fooled by hype, some of their buddies will be fooled by it and then they are almost forced to go where their buddies are so everyone goes PS4, just like I did.
I miss Xbox sometimes, but honestly the machines are pretty much identical with both having benefits and drawbacks overt the other, but in terms of games they really are pretty much identical.
I'd expect MS to close the gap, but PS will dominate this product cycle. But MS won't be too bothered by it so long as 35% or so people continue to prefer not to buy Sony despite the hype they will be quite happy. I think anyone can see they have still sold over 5 mil consoles during what has been an amazingly bad launch, so all things considered I think they will be happy.
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