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Originally Posted by Westlo
eh there's noway xbone outsells the ps4, the 360 is barely ahead of the ps3 right now and it had a lot of factors going for it.
* Released a year earlier
* Lower price point
* Superior multiiplat titles
* Easier to code for
* XBL as the definitive console online experience
* Gears of War killer app (was much bigger than Uncharted early days)
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The 360 had a wide and strong range of early years exclusives too. Mass Effect, Halo, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonata, Halo, Vesperia, etc. Some went to the PS3 as timed exclusives, but mostly 360 had the huge momentum very early.
Right now? Aside from Halo and Forza, I don't know if they have any other gaming IPs worth a damn. Gears has went down the drain. Even Fable's lost a lot of its early magic.
I don't know if they have any real edge going into this war. If there's one thing, ironically... It would be the fact that the Japanese gaming scene hasn't transitioned well into the next-gen HD.
Only the big studios like Square Enix, Konami, Capcom, Bamco & a few others are the ones who's really playing seriously in the next-gen scene... and because these studios also have a strong stake in the western markets, they're more likely to go multi-platform for a majority of their games.
As most of the Japanese gaming scene seems content to focus in the 3DS/PSP/Vita market, the "Japan" advantage wouldn't be as strong as it used to be.
... Sony really needs to invest into more Japanese 1st-party studios.