The Xbox 360 is in last place in worldwide sales.
It has been for a long time.
"first to last place."
Are you for real?
The PS3 is the top selling console in the world. It has been the top selling console worldwide for three years now.
The Xbox 360 has been in last place in worldwide installed base for a long time. And that even with the tens of millions of new model Xbox 360s Xbox fans bought over and over again due to the RRoD fiasco and other hardware problems that plagued the system.
Absol...
"I don't see why Sony's decision should be dismissed or downplayed."
But for the foaming at the mouth Xbox fanboys at Kotaku there is every reason to desperately try to downplay Sony's complete and utter domination of E3.
Microsoft spent a huge amount of money and effort building up a massive number of hard core Xbox fanboys in the US gaming media at sites like Kotaku, IGN, 1UP, etc. All that effort handing out automatic 10s to Halo and ...
"Hardware-wise, the Xbox One is almost on par with the Sony in most departments"
Not even close.
* The PS4 GPU is roughly 50 percent more powerful the weak Xbox One GPU.
* The PS4's insanely fast RAM crushes the slower Xbox One's standard RAM.
* The PS4 has 2-3 more gigs of system RAM for games to utilize
* The PS4 doesn't have all various system services Microsoft has inexplicably made ...
"why Microsoft planned for their conference to happen as it did"
This is something I think the people who keep grasping at some magical recovery at E3 for Microsoft don't get.
A cable box that plays games is exactly what the beancounters at Microsoft designed the Xbox One to be. A device that is effectively a Microsoft tollbooth to your livingroom media consumption.
Microsoft sees consumers spending money on Google, Apple, Cable...
We know exactly what the Xbox One is and what Microsoft's E3 will be:
* Halo, Halo, Halo...
* The same old handful of other Xbox franchises
* Faked Kinect demos
* Kinect casual shovelware
* PC ports being passed off as 'exclusives'
* Third party 'exclusives' that aren't actually exclusives
* A lame attempt at addressing the massive graphical power advantage the PS4 has over the wimpy Xbox One with a bunch...
"Will Xbox One Win?"
Magic Eight Ball says...LOL
The Xbox One:
* Has now had the single most epic reveal failure in the history of gaming. Never has a console been revealed that had gamers from every platform unite to universally react with revulsion
* No more RRoD to massively inflate the installed base by tens of millions of units like the Xbox 360 benefited by
* No launching a year/year and a hal...
Doesn't sound that smart to me.
"Permit me to completely change my mind once E3 rolls around"
Anyone who is clinging to the delusion that somehow Microsoft is going to magically blow people away at E3 just isn't very bright.
Three years of epic failures at E3 for Microsoft are exactly what will take place once again:
* Halo, Halo, Halo...
* The same tired small batch of other Xbox franchises
...
"It means Sony is laughing it up."
They've worked hard to be in a position to be able to do so.
Sony has been relentlessly building up their gaming efforts since they first entered the console market back in 1994 with the two fundamental pillars of console gaming:
1. Bleeding edge technology
2. Games, games, games
And all that hard work has payed off for both Sony and gamers.
The failure...
"I've noticed that Wired's coverage of this has been very slanted in favor of MS."
CHRIS KOHLER
Hardcore Sony hater.
Remember him from the 2006/7 days constantly trashing Sony all over the net. Must really suck to be him.
My god...
The little kid Xbox fan who was banned from NeoGaf is STILL running his fake sales numbers site?
Hilarious and pathetic.
How long has the little punk been making up his fake sales numbers? Six years now?
All that effort the kid's beloved Xbox 360 still ends up in last place this gen.
"Yes, the PS3 overall produced better games when the hardware was correctly used. It also had worse results - generally - when it came to multiplats. However, the gap THIS COMING generation will be vividly apparent."
Honestly, give this crap a rest.
Console game graphics isn't the Special Olympics where everyone is a winner.
The PS3 so crushed the Xbox 360 in graphics this gen that the hardcore, foaming at the mouth Xbox crazies...
"There has never been a generation with three machines so clearly apart from one another."
The difference in power this gen will be roughly the same as it was last gen where the PS3 crushed the Xbox 360 in graphics.
The PS3 utterly dominated the weaker Xbox 360. There never was a generation in the history of the console market were two consoles that were released so close in time that had such a massive gap in graphical performance.
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"Most current gen games is better on xbox360"
LOL!!!
Absolutely hilarious...
What is bizarre about the whole Xbox One fiasco is not the reaction of Xbox owners giving up on Microsoft. It's that it took this long for them to do so.
It's like Microsoft has spent the last decade seeing just how far they can treat their customers like crap:
* Pulling the plug on the first Xbox years early screwing leaving owners and developers
* Knowingly shipping defective hardware out the door and denying any problem existed fo...
"Simply put, the Xbox One is less powerful than the PS4, though not but a huge amount."
Simply put...you're wrong.
The PS4 absolutely crushes the Xbox One in graphical power.
Edit:
"Multiplatform games are still going to look roughly the same..."
The only way that will happen is if Sony lets Microsoft force third party developers to sign contracts agreeing to gimp the PS4 version of th...
"In terms of hardware, you do realize (though not officially announced by X1) Ps4 and X1 will be almost the same right?"
How can anyone be this delusional?
The PS4 has:
* Main RAM speed that dramatically faster than the RAM in the Xbox One
* A GPU that is 50 percent more powerful
* About 2 gigs more of usable system RAM
The PS4 absolutely crushes the Xbox One.
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Love my Wii, but it doesn't change the fact that the Wii fad last for three years and then died.
Microsoft came in last place this gen despite:
* Rushing the console out the door a year early in the US and Japan, and a year and a half in Europe to try to pad out the installed base numbers
* Millions and millions of duplicate consoles sold due to the RRoD and myriad other hardware problems that plagued the poorly designed system - disc scr...
"This is from the worldwide sales figures"
You mean the 'worldwide sales figures" posted from the 20 year old Xbox fankid who runs the fake vgchartz?
Sorry, we are talking about the real world.
Crazy to think just how badly Microsoft got beat this gen:
* Rushed their console out the door a year early in the US and Japan. A year and a half in Europe
* 200 dollars cheaper than the PS3