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[Pelta88]

The Xbox brand never truly recovered from the Xbox One's controversial E3 2013 press conference and the aftershocks of the PR debacle are still being felt.
While sales of the Xbox One family of consoles eventually delivered a respectable ~63.7 million sales, as per UK regulatory filings, the reputational harm still exists today, and has even served as a kind of decade-long springboard for Xbox's current problems (Redfall's release, the perception that Xbox lacks big-budget first-party exclusives, etc).

10 years ago, PlayStation's marketing team won two consecutive console generations

10 years ago, Xbox introduced disastrous marketing that gave PlayStation an easy win that grew into two consecutive console generations of success.

www.tweaktown.com

Interesting retrospective.

 

[feynoob]

Why post this now? I dont get it.

 

[Chronicle]

Twas a smackdown of epic proportions

 

[Snake29]

Xbox will recover tonight and start outselling the PS brand.

 

[systemr123]

Xbox will recover tonight and start outselling the PS brand.

You forgot the /s at the end of your sentence

 

[Adam_802]

lol Xbox show today got people scared already

 

[Warnen]

 

[radewagon]

If we ignore the PS3 (which was an absolute winner in the long run and, IMO, directly responsible for modern Sony's success), Sony's home consoles have always dominated.

Pouring one out for PSP and PSvita, though. Love those portables.

 

[Mr Moose]

While sales of the Xbox One family of consoles eventually delivered a respectable ~63.7 million sales, as per UK regulatory filings, the reputational harm still exists today, and has even served as a kind of decade-long springboard for Xbox's current problems (Redfall's release, the perception that Xbox lacks big-budget first-party exclusives, etc).

Interesting retrospective

That's Xbox One + Series consoles.

 

[Draxon Gamer]

Wasn't the Xbox One reveal in May?

Anyway the Xbox recovered fine from the used game thing, i find it confusing why people go back to before launch for problems that happened due to bad choices made after launch. All Xbox had to do was decouple Kinect from the start and not have cancelled so many games announced in 2014.

The consequence was Xbox One not having any games for 3 years until 2017. That would damage any brand. Sony didn't have games for two years on the PS3 and almost went bankrupt.

 

[killatopak]

Wasn't the Xbox One reveal in May?

Anyway the Xbox recovered fine from the used game thing, i find it confusing why people go back to before launch for problems that happened due to bad choices made after launch. All Xbox had to do was decouple Kinect from the start and not have cancelled so many games announced in 2014.

The consequence was Xbox One not having any games for 3 years until 2017. That would damage any brand. Sony didn't have games for two years on the PS3 and almost went bankrupt.

That video was shown in E3 IIRC. Before that, people were speculating that Sony would soon follow Xbox’s route.

 

[NeonGhost]

Why post this now? I dont get it.

Trying to rally the fanboys before the Microsoft conference

 

[ReBurn]

lol console war bait

 

[Rocco Schiavone]

Xbox will recover tonight and start outselling the PS brand.

Calm down ColtEastwood.

 

[adamsapple]

Why post this now? I dont get it.

You know exactly why, his post history isn't ambiguous at all.

 

[Draxon Gamer]

That video was shown in E3 IIRC.

I wasn't talking about Sony's video, I'm talking about what the OP calls the Xbox controversial press conference. I thought that conference was earlier.

Either way, Xbox One had a period of zero big exclusives for 3 years people wanted. The fact they survived that is still unbelievable.

 

[Stuart360]

What an interesting time to make this thread. Touche.

 

[reforen]

Are people still clinging to that?

 

[Brigandier]

 

[Thief1987]

Is this the gamers™ thing to overhype and overrate everything into stratosphere? It was a funny and smart video. Nothing more.

 

[Snake29]

Calm down ColtEastwood.

 

[Doom85]

Are people still clinging to that?

I mean, it’s easily their 2nd biggest mic drop in Playstation’s history.

Christ, Playstation began with their biggest mic drop: “$299”. Lord knows some SEGA employees still wake up in a cold sweat hearing that word.

Sega Saturn: how one decision destroyed PlayStation's greatest rival

After the huge success of the Mega Drive, Sega was filled with confidence about its future. But then on this week, twenty years ago, everything fell apart

www.theguardian.com

 

[Mr Moose]

Why post this now? I dont get it.

What an interesting time to make this. Touché.

Published Jun 10, 2023 12:41 PM CDT

It was 10 years ago today, E3 2013 (article was published yesterday(?) I don't know what CDT is).

 

[bender]

You know exactly why, his post history isn't ambiguous at all.

 

[Laieon]

Phil Spencer is going to have "one last thing" this show and announce the new Playstation Marketing Team.

 

[Fbh]

I mean sure Sony PR did a good job with that but MS lost that generation all on their own with the terrible reveal of the console, misreading how attached people still were to physical games at the time, and their insistence on shipping every console with Kinect which made it $100 more expensive than the Ps4

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Weird article. It talks about PS1 marketing in the 90s, and PS4 marketing in 2013.

But the two consecutive generations won are actually PS1 and PS2. Wii and Switch outsold PS3 and PS4.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[RCU005]

Xbox will recover tonight and start outselling the PS brand.

You forgot that everyone will run out selling their PS5 to buy Xbox

 

[bender]

A Better Tomorrow has always been Phil's motto.

 

[Faust]

We don’t need obvious bait threads.