[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Lucid:

With the PS3, Sony justified the higher price with the fact that it was a better system and could play Blu-Ray discs. Sony got what they wanted with Blu-ray winning over HDDVD, but the console didn't do nearly as well as the Xbox.

To contrast, this year when Sony initially announced/revealed the PS4, Microsoft had to push back the reveal of the Xbox One because it was so much embarrassingly worse than the PS4. It's more of an entertainment box than a gaming console, but nobody who doesn't play the games it is offering will buy it so it's not a good strategy. It was smart of Sony to keep things the same as far as used games and online mode. Microsoft was totally going to stand their ground until they realized that Xbox preorders were totally abysmal, not because they cared about the outrage of all the gamers. I feel like they have to prove to everyone that they are worthy of being trusted again.

The PS3 finally started to outsell the 360 worldwide a couple of months ago, the fact that the PS3 came out a year later is pretty good news to hear at the end of a life cycle. Besides, I bet most of those Xbox's sold were all all replacements to people who lost theirs due to the Red Ring of Death or any other kind of problems.. (I have a lot of friends who bought 2-4 Xbox's because their old ones broke. That's a lot of extra sales for Microsoft..)

Now flashback to the upcoming consoles, the Xbox One pre-orders were extremely bad, Microsoft received a huge backlash, and Sony was riding on Microsoft's foot being shot by.. Microsoft.. MULTIPLE TIMES. The whole Xbox One thing has been a huge embarrassment in my eyes, but I'm happy they pulled their 180.

Overall this next generation of console wars all 3 companies figured out that they need more golden exclusives, and they are all pushing efforts to get indie developers to create games exclusively for their systems because they are all looking for the next Journey, or even a upcoming developer who can make amazing triple A games.


A video of GameInformer going to the streets asking random people what they think about the PS4 and Xbox One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=FN_btDBBWwk