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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Because nobody has ever full out lost a console generation and then come back to be the market leader off the back of unique hardware and must-have exclusive games.
Except for Nintendo. Twice.
Starfield being an "11/10" might not make people sell their PS5, but it'll get a lot of people to buy an Xbox. And it'll help to sway a lot of people who haven't bought either yet (of which there are tens of millions). Sounds like they're just giving up.
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I don’t think that’s how it sounds at all, and I don’t think using Nintendo as an analog here makes much sense as they’ve always kind of been on an island doing their own thing. Obviously they want to sell more consoles, but it’s simply true to state that dropping the ball at the outset of the previous gen created a hill to climb in a world of established digital libraries (especially between Microsoft and Sony where the game libraries are so similar, unlike Nintendo).
If Microsoft drops some real first party quality in the coming couple years, sure, they’ll sell some more consoles. Phil’s basically saying that Sony’s so good at what they do in this space though that it’s still never going to really move the needle in the form of some big swing in the “console war” itself.