GR's DeShaun Zollicoffer writes:
Gamers love a good showdown, and it’s hard to imagine a better one than the PS4 and Next Xbox launching within weeks of each other. This would set the gaming world a blaze; diehards on both sides would revel in the madness. “Who will come out victorious, place your bets!” Predicting the winner of such a showdown should prove easy for any unbiased gamer, though, Microsoft wins. If Sony wants to outsell the Next Xbox in 2013 -- the PS4 needs a head start.
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PS4 all the way!!!
non of them won this war when it come to sales
every one here only talk about sales
this sold better ..this will sell better
this have better numbers .. this is outselling the other one
do any of you get check from MS or Sony ??!!!
NO ...so why you care ?!!
but you are not the who should be blamed it's sites like vgchartes who put wrong numbers and people fall for it
i don't care if ps4 have a head start or xbox720 have a head start
i will only look for the console with the best tech and the best games
I'll be biased and get a PS4 whenever I can. That's where the games I want to play will be. Nintendo is a complete non factor for me, I have no interest in most MS exclusives, and even less interest in paying for what others get for free. If you can't, or don't want, to game on multiple platforms, you should go with the platform that has the games you want to play. For me that's PS and it's not even close. Sales numbers...? I didn't know or care about them while I played my PS2, and the only reason I know about them now is the cesspool known as N4G. As long as my favorite platform sells enough to be supported, that's all I care about. What my friends buy is another non factor. I could have followed my impatient friends and bought a 360 like they did, but they all ended up trading them for PS3s anyway so I'll just go my own way as usual.
It's so akward to controll and poorly designed compared to the Xbox 360 or SNES controller.
Can't seem to put my controller down without one or both setting off.
Last I checked the PS3 consistently outsold the 360.
You may need to re-evaluate that bias of yours.
People forget quickly what a power house the PS1 and PS2 was and even Sony them selfs knew that which was why the they were so arrogant with the PS3 pricing it at $600 and making statements like next gen doe not start until we say so and you can get two jobs to afford a PS3.
The Xbox is the youngest of the 3 and people are not giving MS enough credit for making the 360 a true competitor and threat to the PlayStation brand.
Every one was ragging of the 360 and saying that Sony will kill it like they killed the Dream Cast - remember that the original Xbox sold poorly and the Red Ring fiasco did not help the 360, name one company that could have survived that.
Yes the PS3 is selling well but give credit to MS for giving the PS3 a run for its money and for being in the position to release another console next gen.
Sony's doing very good right now but the Xbox did make a name for themselves this gen. Only because MS new what was at stake 2nd time around. I just hope MS doesn't get extremely confident and slips up come next gen.
What does anything he said have to do with giving Microsoft credit?
Yeah, Microsoft did great this generation. But the fact remains... Microsoft's best performance and Sony's worst performance has resulted in a tie, even after Microsoft's head start. Very impressive. Let's all give the plucky underdog multi-billion dollar corporation a pat on the back for being the little engine that could.
Let's look at facts. Microsoft threw everything they had at Sony. An early launch. A massive price advantage. Acquiring many of the PS1 and PS2's defining franchises.
What did it get Microsoft? A tie. A tie that, if the sales trends remain consistent, could turn into a third place finish.
And now the author of this article acts as if any unbiased gamer can easily see that Sony's only path to success is launching early, just to fight of MS's marketing?
Sorry, but Catoplepas has it right. MS proved they can be competitive with Sony, but they haven't proved "to any unbiased gamer" that they would undoubtedly win in a head to head showdown, especially one in which Sony comes out of the gate strong.
I would love to see Sony come out of the gate like they did with the PS1. They had so much momentum, and were the most exciting thing to happen for a long time in the industry. People that weren't around back then just don't seem to realize how game-changing the PS1 was.
Some people laughed when MS showcases Kinect on TV shows or have music artist in Kinect ads but that is just smart marketing... Usher and TV host Ellen are bound to sell more of a product than Kevin Butler because out side of gaming no one knows who he is. I know some of you will disagree but it's just the way i see things.
Usher was used to advertise Dance Central 3 and it only sold 400k so your logic is flawed.
The first party games will come, and companies like ATLUS and others will continue producing third party exclusives for Sony. There's really no need to worry about them on that front.
And while you say it's difficult, Sony seems to have matched and surpassed Microsoft in units sold(to say nothing of fielding so many devices at once). It's actually more accurate to say Microsoft only managed to make it as far as they did because of their propensity to spend, spend, spend, and spend some more.
What was Ellen selling? StrongMan debunked you with Usher, and though I like Ellen, I can't see her being THAT influential. She's not Oprah. And I may be mistaken, but did the Kevin Butler commercials only show up on TVs that gamers were watching? I could have sworn all sorts of people were able to see those ads.
You may say you're unbiased or something, but that just makes it more ironic that every comment you make regarding Sony and/or Microsoft has the same "Sony did good, BUT" tone to it.
Oh, so sales in the US - the largest market - don't count?
Sound logic.
Not sure if you know math, but that's almost two years.
Keep living in a bubble.
he's talking about world wide numbers
while you are talking about USA numbers
I suggest you take your own advice.
Keep practicing your arithmetic.
Not sure if you know basic geography, but there's a whole lot more out there than just the US.
You are missing the point here. When you advertise a game, you aren't only doing just that. You are also advertising xbox360. Out of those 400,000 copies sold I'll bet that some xbox360s went right along with them. How do you think MS has sold 73 million consoles so far? It's called good business and smart advertising. Something you obviously know nothing about. You just stick to trolling. You seem to know that area pretty well. You are pretty pitiful as usual.
A few months is one thing, a year is another.
They put more time into it, and thus ended up with a more reliable console. Good call, but still put them behind a bit.
MICROSOFT must've been cocky ass sh*t to release the 360 with RROD though thats for sure. Just to be first on the market and to be immortalized WW as that gaming machine that brakes down most of the time.
MS on the hand has proven they're willing to produce the same games, releasing 2-3 decent exclusives for the whole year and focusing on the casual market.
I think if they released at the same time Sony would pull well ahead.
I think they'll opt for an early 2014 launch for the PS4 and mid-year for PAL regions.
Launch (or summer) games - Guerrilla , Evolution , SuckerPunch , MLB The Show 14 , Planetside 2 .... and Uncharted 4 for holiday 2014 !
Sony have improved almost all aspects of their gaming presence besides marketing. Now that they have PlayStation Plus, Gaikai, a strong first party support, supposed developer friendly AMD processor, and what will clearly be a much improved online network with enough RAM to perform background tasks like cross game chat, party system and more, possible launch titles like SOE's PlanetSide 2 - they will perform just as well. I'm sorry but if you think Sony is in a bad position going into next gen, you're not thinking straight.
They established themselves as the cool brand to own, but not the quality one. A lot of people I know who claim the 360 is better don't actually know jack about games. But in their mind the popular choice = the right choice.
I have had to explain the difference between mutliplat and exclusive games to far too many people who prefer the 360. When you talk about the amount of exclusives Playstation has or how it's online (even the free version let alone PS+) rivals the 360 they change the subject.
I've sat down on numerous occasions and have shown people trailers for The Last of Us and they get really excited about it. They ask when it's coming out, if there are any preorder bonuses ect. Then I tell them it's a Playstation exclusive and they just go "ohh.." and then shy away or change the topic. These people are my friends too! I feel bad that they are missing out on great games.
Or what's worse is when they actively attack a game that isn't on their system, but when the next iteration is going to be multiplat they squeal.
"Demons souls? Oh yeah, I heard that game sucked, it was way too hard or something"
*Dark Souls releases and is multiplat*
"Dude I effing love this game" -_-
Unfortunately in the US everything is a freaking popularity contest. Regardless of what great things Sony can offer, if it isn't being talked about by all their friends and their mothers then most "gamers" don't actually care.
Anyone I know who actually enjoys videogames and is passionate about the media prefers PS3 for it's wider variety of exclusives and it's focus on core gaming. That's not to say 360 doesn't have it's gems. I actually like Gears. Never much of a fan of Halo but whatever.
I don't mean to attack the actual gamers who prefer 360 (though i'll never understand your reasoning) but at least in my experiences (I live in the US) with my own friends even! is that the bulk of the fanbase are sheep who don't actually care about gaming, they just do it to stay socially relevant.