The PS4 has so many fundamental advantages over the Xbox One that in my opinion it will crush Microsofts Xbox One. Here are 5 reasons why.
1)General Image of the Playstation Brand
Without a doubt Sony has better public perception. Even though Microsoft has done so many 180's most consumers are still under the "Evil Microsoft" impression that litters comment sections of articles, threads and videos whether justified or not. Sony has been stead-fast in maintaining a "good-guy" image, Sony has yet to mis-step the way Microsoft has. The greatest gift to Sony PR this year has not been the PS4 but instead the Xbox One. The PS4 momentum is strong going into the holiday season with pre-orders supposedly out-numbering the Xbox 4:1 in Europe and 3:1 in mainland North America. The Playstation brand just is stronger than the Xbox brand.
2) Exclusives
Sony World Wide Studios is the worlds largest internal development team comprising of 14 studios across 32 teams and has won more GoTY awards and nominations than any other development group since the awards inception.
After the back-lash surrounding the "The Xbox One has no games" "TV TV TV TV TV TV" "COD COD COD COD" MS in a last ditch attempt to save the DRM scheme and the initial Xbox One vision blew most of their exclusive games at this years E3. They announced games by the bucket load... some are only coming out in Q3/Q4 2014 and Q1 2015. According to two Mod-verified Insiders on Neogaf, Sony plans to hold back major announcements. Sony expects to sell-out every PS4 until March 2014 and does not see a point in releasing so many games in Q4 2012 and Q1 2013.
According to "Verendus" this years VGA's and next years E3 are "gonna be crazy" with major surprises including a "MASSIVE" Western 3rd party exclusive that will blow people's minds as well as Naughty Dogs next game in development since 2011, Santa Monica's (Stig's team) project that has been in production full swing for 42 months, Guerilla's next gen WRPG(rumored) in development since 2010, Media Molecule's next game and much more in fact here is a list I compiled shortly before Gamesom. http://forums.n4g.com/What-...
While Sony is dropping bomb after bomb MS will still be talking about Halo 5, Titanfall, Black-tusk next title, Fable Legends and so on. Also don't think that SCEJ&A is not cooking up PS4 titles.
Their are 2 SEGA PS4 exclusives (Yakuza????and Shemn*$%3????) as well as quote on quote "Demon Souls 2 , you will know it when you see it." Don't forget SCEJ is massive and under Allan Becker(SSM), SCEJ will be doing wonders next gen and don't forget SOE who's MMO's will play a roll on PS4.
Sony is saving bombs for when MS has run out of them.
3) Price
The Playstation is $100 cheaper than the Xbox One. This alone will massively swing the odds in the PS4's favor.
4) Sony Entertainment
Microsoft backed on the wrong horse, IPTV is the future not cable. Sony is the worlds largest entertainment company and has produced shows such as Breaking Bad, movies like District 9 and albums like "21" by Adele. After a spat between Time Warner and CBS Sony has managed to worm it's way in to securing deals with content providers including Viacom and when unleashed next year Sony will have a new "special feature" in the form of Playstation TV that will be trojan horsed by the PS4 in the same way Blu-ray was for the PS3 and DVD was for the PS2. If Playstation TV is a success it could move a sh*t ton of systems.
5) The PS4 is more powerful.
The Xbox One was designed as an entertainment system and after all the dizzying 180's we are left with a games system that doesn't play games as well as its biggest competitor for $100 more. The PS4's GPU as well as its memory system is far superior to the Xbox One and with the inclusion of hUMA(the Xbox One does not have it) makes the PS4 not on raw power but on an architectural level ahead of the highest end 2013 PC's. Hell, even AMD is parading the PS4's GPU being more powerful than the Xbone's and I am confident enough that we will, come release day, notice a difference between multiplats. http://www.neogaf.com/forum...
So what do you think? Do you think MS's billions and marketing muscle will guarantee a win for the Xbox One or do you think the PS4 will crush the Xbox One into pulp?
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The Nintendo Switch 2 was the best-selling console worldwide with 765,795 units sold for January 2026, according to VGChartz estimates. The Switch 2 has sold 16.35 million units lifetime.
The PlayStation 5 was the second best-selling console, with an estimated 760,325 units sold, to bring lifetime sales to 90.20 million units. The Nintendo Switch 1 was the third best-selling console, with an estimated 178,472 units sold, to bring lifetime sales to 153.93 million units. The Xbox Series X|S came in fourth place with 118,727 units sold, to bring its lifetime sales to 34.29 million units.
Global hardware estimates for January 2026 (Followed by lifetime sales):
Switch 2 - 765,795 (16,351,114)
PlayStation 5 - 760,325 (90,200,369)
Switch 1 - 178,472 (153,933,312)
Xbox Series X|S - 118,727 (34,289,942)
While I awfully appreciate VGChartz providing sell-through estimates and that they've been pretty damn accurate regarding PS5 and Switch/Switch 2 sales, I personally don't think that their X|S lifetime sales are anywhere near the truth.
I know that it's a fairly miserable state for everyone who is trying to figure out X|S sell-throughs or even shipments, and so is my claim that they're off in the same validity as VGChartz'.
But I don't think that X|S are anywhere even close to 34m sell-through units.
HUMA is part of the APU design. Both XBone and PS4 got it.
Yep, looks like Sony will have a one horse race again seeing how MS pissed off their fans. Lord knows Nintendo won't be giving any form of attention.