[Max Cow Disease]

This thread’s title is a bit of a dinosaur at this point, given that the discussion’s become far more about the platforms as a whole than the mere plastic boxes each company’s peddling. We could have closed the thread long ago otherwise, as Sony’s sales lead in that area isn’t narrow. But, Sony’s also seemingly been slower to wake up and smell the roses with the industry’s evolution toward a more platform-agnostic model for software and subscriptions, and is bound to face a minor reckoning at some point in terms of right-sizing/managing profitability.

Getting all myopic about 20-30 million extra boxes that Sony’s moved since these consoles launched - in a segment that doesn’t even traditionally make companies any money - is amusing to me. I’m not sure what the console space looks like 10 years from now, but Microsoft’s play to release more of their software on competing platforms is surely at least a partial harbinger of things to come. Looking back through Sony’s moves with PS Plus subscriptions and the release of their games on PC, Playstation’s been slowly morphing their strategy to mimic Xbox, not the other way around.