Louis Cyphre
Banned
It's a factor, of course, but it's not as simple as even that.
The Xbox and the PS2 were the same price, the PS2 massively outsold the Xbox, the Gamecube, whilst not Xbox levels, still handily outperformed the PS2, and it also got destroyed. The Wii was cheap, but the performance gulf was truly colossal, and it won.
I think it was obvious Sony were going to win this generation, it's been obvious for a long time really. MS provided better value in terms of core gaming than Sony did last generation, and they had between and year and eighteen months headstart, and PS3 still pinched second place.
With every advantage possible, MS still couldn't get the silver. Even if it was currently even, Sony would win. I think this 'resolutiongate' is a huge red-herring in the console sales performances. The boxes could have exactly opposite specs, and I don't believe anything would be different.
Pretty much agree with everything. Sony just has stronger market value worldwide than Microsoft. So when you factor the XBox One now being more difficult, less powerful and pricier along with not having a headstart it becomes clear they have an even bigger uphill battle. The PS2 won by a landslide and it was largely due to having the best game selection.
The problem is that Kinect offers nothing of value to most gamers, core or casual. I would venture a guess only a small percentage at this point are still onboard the Kinect train that MS has been trying to push uphill for quite some time. I have a couple Xbones, one with Kinect hooked up in my main room and one in my spare bedroom without it...and, frankly, aside from the UI being poorly implemented on the Xbone so far I really don't miss it at all when using the Xbone without Kinect hooked up. At all. Not to mention there are zero games that actually use this thing, which just boggles the mind they didn't get at least one killer app out for it during the launch window to show people "See! This is why you need Kinect!" That's a problem when the peripheral is central to the "vision" the company has been pushing for so long.
Some people do like Kinect and Twitch is going to be an example of that. But yes, you are right, Microsoft hasn't done a good job yet as to why Kinect improves things or why consumers want it. That will become more of a focus moving forward.
Really? Where are the Kinect games?
You do realize that the highest rated Kinect game of last gen was The Gunstringer which is rated a 77 on Metacritic?
The most use my old Kinect ever got was when my girlfriend fired up Fruit Ninja once a month to play for an hour, which would be funny if it wasn't true.
I understand your point that Kinect "offers something more"...but the problem is that in the real world it really doesn't, at least not for most gamers. Objectively, the PS3's BR drive offered FAR more real world value/functionality in 2007 for PS3 early adopters.
Dance Central became a pretty big hit for them and reviews were positive.