True but you could argue that the ps4 is still doing better than 360 with competition same point in its life - I guess you could also say ps4 sales are a phenomenon.
To your second point I believe 360 launched in major Europe terrortories like xbox one and us at same time. it was ps3 that launched 6 months late in Europe. The smaller territories in Europe only contribute in the thousands monthly I believe nothing to really make a substantial difference.
isn't the install base for the Xbox One really small? something like around 3 mil US and under 2 mil rest of world? Last I checked there was a table on Neogaf showing while initial 2 month launch sales put it selling faster than the 360, for the past 8 plus months this has been trending down in the sense that as every month it has been selling less month-on-month than where the Xbox 360 was at same point in its life.
That's a really small userbase in contrast to the...
Its difficult breaking into the TV biz, not sure why Microsoft thinks it can build one from scratch.
It took Sony over 14 years to build its TV division with the help of its massive movie studios and its starting to finally crank out hits such as Breaking Bad and The Blacklist.
Its not something that can be achieved overnight let alone without industry resources and built relationships.
The game proved itself to be good with the alpha and beta. Bungie literally let their game speak for itself. If the game sucked it would have been dead on arrival upon release.
That's what I'm saying no more middleman needed with games press. Just let gamers play it and let then decide for themselves. These review outlets giving destiny a 6 is ridiculous, they are sore alright.
The fact this game was largely successful without the support of media publications and their reviews signal a new age where developers can interact directly with their customers through betas to sell them on their game.
Of course gaming "journalists" will want to make an example of destiny after all if reviews are not needed then their livelihood could be at stake. Gaming news outlets are on the decline with recent massive layoffs at both gametrailers and gamepot. ...
Journos mad bungie bypassed them
If you listen to a lot of podcasts you know many game reviewers gave GTA V a high score on release but by the end of 2013 many felt it was overrated When getting around for goty discussions came around. hence all the outlets gave TLOU goty even after a good amont of time passed. One held up in high regards while the other wasn't.
Well you and your friends are in the far minority then.
Chances are most people's friends also have ps4s unless you are in the small minority that decided to get the Xbox one for some unknown forsaken reason.
How is TLOU a little less focused on gameplay than the avg game? In addition to its third person shooter and cover mechanic it has a deep real time weapons crafting system and inventory management. I would say that is much more gameplay than the avg third person shooter.
Well I think like the person below said they just don't care for it. To an extent that's the same case in Europe and even here in the states where it's been selling lower than the Xbox 360 month over month.
I think article failed to mention Xbox one selling also selling at slowe rate month over month than 360 in US.
From an aggregated review standpoint only one franchise has earned the most number of awards out of the three listed there and that's uncharted.
Game with most number of goty of course goes to The Last of Us with 200+.
Lol.. You expect that sort of stupid logic will convince people to flock to buying the Xbox one? No one is buying it got a darn good reason.
Here let me negate your sales pitch by 150% - everyone buy the superior ps4 version of Destiny with better frame rate and exclusive strike missions and timed exclusive map packs and expansions.
Btw - Xbox live is getting hacked and DDos attacked
Threw in the last bit for full disclosure lol
Msft can take the kinect and shove it..! Lol
Seriously, who would by a dead peripherial. Might as well sell it at a bargain price to try to drive adoption by removing that price barrier.
Well your Misinformed here. Sony has taken content curation to the next level by courting several indie publishers Like devolver digital who does the indie content curation for Sony weeding out the crap. On top of that Sony has their own curation process which Adam Boyes calls trade secret as Sony is know for selecting and pushing cream of the crop indies such as journey, unfinished swan etc... It's next level sh@t.
You mean gamestation4 considering ps4 has most number of AAA retail, AAA independent and smaller indie titles.
Microsoft should go in a different direction like chase casuals. I don't see the Xbox one competing with ps4 on even ground as it will only reinforce what has been happening in the last 7 months where Xbox one sales have constantly dipped lower than any year of the Xbox 360 month over month.
No worries Nate Wells came back to ND after leaving. Corrianne Yu left 343 industries to join ND and also recently gained a few industry vets as well.
Although kind of worried about 343 industires and halo 5. Teams already a "B" team still, but with top talent leaving wondering if it can reach ND level "A" talent status.
Maybe not. Ubi has exclusive marketing partnership with Sony on FC3 and the keys to karat promo so maybe not. But that's with assumption ubi screwed ps4 version of Ass-creed unity due to Microsoft marketing deal.