OldJadedGamer
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You're funny, Sony can reestablish dominance if MS screws up, which very well could happen. Free online, blu-ray, and a year head start could seal Sony as the winner next gen. MS still has the pay for online perspective and with people becoming savvy they may start to see how much of a rip off live is. If Sony can manage to make their online more robust and include everything that MS has for free next gen I could easily see them overtaking MS on that alone. They got me this gen with it, who knows how many they can get next gen. Not to mention Sony still has way more first party devs then microsoft has. This is all speculation of course, but saying that Sony will never reestablish dominance is very ignorant. Same thing was said about Apple not even 14 years ago and now look where they are....
Apple still has a tiny market share... of personal computers. That is what people said 14 years ago and it still holds true.
You really think with Sony hurting they can afford to match MS online features for free next gen? XBL being the go-to for online play this gen shows paying isn't a barrier.
What you fail to think about is that MS has people locked into their gamertags now. Their cheevos and most important... their friends list online. That will be a hook to carry people over next gen. Next gen won't just be about games, it will be about services.
Sony had a fun ride at the top for two gens but there is way too much quality competition now. As for having more first party devs, sales show that they really don't matter as much as third party games.