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posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 10 2014, @06:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the diminishing-returns dept.

regift_of_the_gods writes:

"The results from the 2013 holiday season through January are leaking in, and they look grim: not great for Sony, bad for Microsoft, terrible for Nintendo. The PS4 seems to be outselling the Xbox One but both are far behind their respective sales totals of 2006/2007, when they faced off with the previous generation of consoles. An anonymous developer quoted in the TechCrunch piece notes: 'There are 2+ year old GPUs that outperform these boxes, and even budget GPUs releasing now in the $150 range outclass these machines... This means whilst the casuals are moving to mobile/web, the high end enthusiasts are moving to PC where games are better looking. The traditional consoles are caught in a pincer movement.'

Sony has just completed a round of layoffs at its Santa Monica game studio. Meanwhile, the future of Xbox within Microsoft remains cloudy, with the departure of CEO Steve Ballmer and the ascension of Stephen Elop as head of the Devices and Services group, which includes the Nokia/Lumia handsets and the Surface tablet as well as Xbox. There are rumors that Microsoft is negotiating to sell the Xbox division to Amazon, which seems to be trying to enter the game platform industry. Elop wrote the (in)famous 'burning platform' memo when he was CEO at Nokia, as a prelude to abandoning the Symbian and MeeGo operating systems in favor of Windows Phone; he also stated last year that he would consider divesting Xbox and Bing if he was named CEO."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @08:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @08:45AM (#13789)

    Don't forget about Sony withdrawing support for other operating systems for the PS3.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OtherOS [wikipedia.org]

    Yes, focus your attention on

    A: Providing a feature
    B: Advertising it
    C: Wait for people to buy your product
    D: Remove the feature after they bought your product
    F: Lose consumer confidence in the sale of any future products
    G: Complain when no one buys your future products
    H: ?????
    I: PROFIT!!!!

    Somehow I feel very little sympathy for Sony and wouldn't mind seeing them lose a ton of business for this. Yes, Sony may have wrongfully won the court battle over this but hopefully consumers are smart enough to boycott the company in the future over this. Carma sucks and the courts can't regulate consumer confidence.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Vanderhoth on Monday March 10 2014, @10:23AM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Monday March 10 2014, @10:23AM (#13812)

    The only reason they're doing better than MS in this generation is because the XBOne sucks so much more.

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    "Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe
    • (Score: 1) by Rivenaleem on Monday March 10 2014, @01:21PM

      by Rivenaleem (3400) on Monday March 10 2014, @01:21PM (#13919)

      More likely because the price point for the XBOne is higher as you are 'forced' to buy it with the Kinect, adding a mostly unneeded 100$ to the price tag. A lot of PS4 buyers are like "this way I don't have to pay for something I may never use"