"VGcharts was pretty dam close with the sales numbers."
Can we stop this crap of 'gee, vgchartz was close!'
No they weren't of course. Vgchartz fake sales numbers were as usual way low and have been updating them to something more believable.
The little kid Xbox fan who makes up the fake numbers frantically changes the numbers on his site if it becomes too obvious his numbers aren't believable.
It is...
"most commentators would have pitched Microsoft to lead the next generation console battle."
Nope.
The Xbox 360 came in last place. No one but someone completely ignorant of the console market would make the inane prediction that the next Xbox would 'lead the next generation console battle'.
The RRoD gave Microsoft a one time massively inflated installed base in the US as Xbox 360 owners bought new model after new model of t...
My god.
Never heard of the site until I just googled polygon.com and Microsoft.
So we have a website that was paid 750 thousand dollars by Microsoft coming out with this the very day the new that the Xbox One is unable to run most major third party titles at 1080p like the PS4.
Is there any question why so much of gaming world gleefuly cheering on the news that Microsoft is actively looking to dump the Xbox.
>Yeah, quite a letdown graphically. It looks like they pretty much just added some extra graphical effects to the last gen console versions for the PS4.
The entire game is going to be gimped by the fact that it is forced to run on the horrible Xbox 360 DVD format. All the world layout is going to be forced to run the same even on the crap 360 hardware. Which pretty much means that any PS4 additions are going to fairly minor and mostly window dressing.
"Vgchartz is a site run by a little kid Xbox fan who was permabanned from the neogaf forums for trying to post fake sales numbers that massively inflated Xbox 360 sales."
He was so bad at trying to fabricate Xbox 360 sales back when he was on neogaf that when they perma-banned him they even went so far as to permanently censor his handle, ioi, and the name of his fake sales site vgchartz.
His made up sales numbers for the Xbox 360 quite often were a...
You post makes absolutely no sense.
I think Microsoft really believed that they were going to create another Wii type massive hit with the Xbox One + Kinect.
Underpowered graphics hardware plus motion controls but that plan has completely failed and they are stuck relying on their old Xbox fanbase who they have effectively told to F-off over the past four years or so while they went full retard on the Kinect casual junk.
Microsoft thought they would have tens of millions of casual gamers rushin...
"Microsoft had a sh!tload of momentum coming into this generation from the 360"
How does a console that came in last place in worldwide sales have 'a sh!tload of momentum'?
Coming in last place is the opposite of 'having momentum'.
Sony let Microsoft get away with forcing multiplatform developers to gimp the PS3 version of games down to 360 graphics levels last gen. That helped mask the massive graphical power advantage the PS3 has over the 360.
That isn't happening this gen. Sony has wised up and is making sure that third party developers are making the PS4 versions of games as good as they can.
"To me one big point that will decide who has more or better games will be this year E3"
Going by the past three year's E3s we know exactly how it will turn out. Sony will have yet another show that is completely filled with games with major new titles being announced. While Microsoft will spend 75 percent of their show hyping the Kinect junk, show off the same tired tiny group of Xbox franchises, and then try to make a huge deal about some multiplatform game th...
It has nothing to do with 'retailers are just too competitive'. It is just a pricing difference between the Euro and Pound. The short neogaf thread there explains it clearly. The PS4 has always been this price.
"For the past five years Microsoft has ignored us fans and now they are paying the price for it."
Yep, that is the problem for Microsoft. They didn't just make some mistakes with the Xbox One launch. They have been digging a hole for themselves for years. There is no easy fix. They went full in on the Kinect junk and dropping it would effectively mean a relaunch of the console and a complete restructuring of their first party developers - which is already the sm...
"The power they promised is feasible and tangible. With the PS3... not so much"
My god...tell us you're joking...right?
The PS3 utterly crushed the Xbox 360 in graphics. There wasn't a single game on the Xbox 360 that didn't didn't as good or significantly better on the PS3.
The PS3 dominated the weaker and poorly designed 360 in every single possible graphical area:
# Resolution
# Poly count...
The garbage bin?
"it forced sony to make drastic changes with the PS brand as well."
LOL!
Always the same rhetoric when teams or groups come to grips with the inevitable losing outcome of their side. The 'we did not lose in vain!' rationalization.
Yes, I didn't mention GAMES except where I mentioned GAMES:
"The PS4 has strong support from all three major console regions: Japan, the US, and Europe."
"Sony has the largest and most diverse first party developer lineup. A first party developer lineup that is bigger than Nintendo and Microsoft's combined."
So Playstation owners get:
% The largest number and most diverse first party exclusive game...
"who's winning"
Cute that the silly site pretends there is some sort of uncertainty.
The PS4 is already already around six million consoles sold and Sony still has the Japan launch to look forward to in a couple weeks.
The PS4 is sold out almost everywhere and when new shipments come in they are bought almost immediately.
PS4 graphics are running at 1080p with graphics that are not matched on any other console. ...
"360 stomping it early on"
My god. You can't possibly be serious.
The 200 dollar more expensive has PS3 outsold the Xbox 360 every single year on the market. Including the very first.
Let me guess...you get your 'sales' numbers from the little kid Xbox fan who created vgchartz...
In a hilariously pathetic way, the RRoD fiasco is really the one bright spot in the entire 14 year Xbox trainwreck in that it ...
"It singlehandedly introduced/popularized online gaming to the masses and made Sony prematurely drop the PS3s price less than a year after it launched"
Boggle.
PC online gaming, Dreamcast online gaming. Even the PS2 that didn't come with online capabilities but had to be bought as an add-on had more people playing the massively popular SOCOM online than Microsoft had online players on their entire system.
So, yes, the Xbox could...
"It the Xbox One number that we can't trust. Those were the one's that were wildly off. Hopefully they figure out what was messing up their projection."
LOL!!!
'messing up their projections'?
Vgchartz is nothing but a little kid Xbox fan who makes up numbers and types them into his computer from his mom's house.
He was banned years ago from the neogaf forums for trying to pass off wildly inflated...