Playstation Domination!!

It's PlayStation.

Microsoft could have Naughty Dog and all of their games and they will still get outsold (hardware).

Sony know what they are doing. Gaming is always the primary focus.

Xbox has lacked that same focus for the majority of it's play. A dedication to a wider portfolio of developed and supported games has to be the message moving forward or MS have little hope of gaining back the trust of many.

Phil has been promising just that but with no concrete details of new games beyond the ones we know of, it is a mystery as to what will happen in the next 2 years leading up to the next wave of consoles.

This is gonna happen every generation. Sony got cocky with the PS3 & now Microsoft got cocky with the XBOX One. Gonna change regardless of what lessons they learn as they will make new ones each generation

Lol polygon... *skip story*

power is only good when you can show your games that truly out do the competition. phil spencer should have invested heavily in starting or buying development studios. I really thought him having developer background will take care of MS's issues with 1st-2nd party studios

his best effort so far is allowing you to play old games instead of creating new experiences only available on xbox

i think ms doesn't care because they make so much from xblive and until they suffer through that nothing will change. it was very funny to see ms/xbox fanboys think power alone will dethrone playstation but instead playstation system became one of the best sold systems

we are told all the times by select few die hard xbox fanboys how exclusives don't matter yet 70 million strong say otherwise. the other excuse about exclusives not selling well when you have diversity every game isn't gonna sell millions. almost all exclusives sold enough to turn profit

gamexs like nier,nioh and persona all sold million plus

if i was running xbox i would make sure all the Japanese niche titles are on xbox one even if i have to pay for the ports day one. you have to have a catalog and can't be making 3 same games every other year

time to rest gears, forza and halo until next next gen

PlayStation won because of quality software. This trend will continue into PS5

Xbox could release next gen with better, higher rated exclusives and a more powerful machine and still get outsold by PS. PS is the iPhone of the gaming. It doesn't have to be the most powerful. It doesn't have to have the most or the best games. People are going to buy it simply because it's a PS.

"Microsoft has released a console with vision, and the console wars are finally interesting again"

Wrong! The Xbox X tell us that Microsoft still don't get it. A more powerful console that totally lacks exclusive games that are worth or sell the system.

Microsoft continues to invest in everything but the one thing that has made the competition soar to the skies... Exclusives games!

The Xbox X is not Microsoft having "vision". It is Microsoft not wanting to be the inferior console and that's lack of focus. Look at Nintendo, they have the inferior console and is selling better than Xbox so MORE POWER was not the answer.

It was a done deal even before the generation started. Last gen Sony made so many mistakes that it seemed that they wanted to give all the market share they could to their competitors and yet they still managed to sell as many consoles as MS despite having their console 1 year later on the market. This showed me how powerful the Playstation brand truly is and I had no doubt that Sony would easily be the market leader no matter how good the next xbox console would be. Sony learning from the mistakes they made last gen and MS draconian policies didn't help MS either.

Wait until they unleash the cloud though! 8k on all systems, even the OG Xbox!

It doesn't seem like MS have learned anything, unfortunately.

"THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!"

Or maybe,

"It over Johnny. ITS OVER!"

Since Sony waited more than 2 years to launch its really significative exclusives, software was not a decisive factor for those who got their PS4 during early days. PS4 was simultaneously cheaper and more powerful than Xbox One. And MS really messed up his console announcement back then. The rest was herd behavior.

Lol what mistake hasnt ms made since the xb1 gen?? If you were new to gaming one would think the xb1 was ms's 1st go in the console biz.

1. People already didnt care for kinnect but then when it was forced down gamers troats with the purchase of an xb1 it was clearly a bad idea. Also telling gamers the xb1 cant even work without kinnect = bad bad bad idea

2. Always online/drm = bad idea

3. Focusing more on non gamer services was a bad idea.

4. Investing all this supposed $$$ into the cloud was a bad idea.

5. Making statements like direct x will make xb1 3 x as powerful was a bad idea.

6. Making shoddy hardware during the 360 gen just to beat sony to the market was a bad idea.

7. Trying to kill used games was a bad idea.

8. Canceling 1st party games is a bad idea

9. Making new 1st party games is a bad idea 😂😂 after sunset overdrive, quantum break, halo wars 2, halo 5, geow 4, recore, and recently luckys tale and forza 7 all failed to meet sales expectations... Which is clearly why at 1 point Phillip Spencer stated they were focusing on 3rd party games only to tell us a year ago 1st partys are in the pipeline that are 3 years out... Like who tf is ruining xbox?

10. Releasing info on games too early is a bad idea

11. Stating exclusive games and 3rd party advertising rights was bad for gaming and then do it themselves lol!

12. That it doesnt matter what they price the xb1s at wont make it fly off the shelf.

13. That power and better versions of 3rd partys alone wont make the xb1x fly off the shelf.

The xb1x could have been ms's swan song... They should have made DAMN sure they had a few explosive games to launch when the platform arrived nov 7th... They had a whole 18 damn months to figure shit out and all yall got was luckys tail, forza, and more cancelations... If they really wanted to compete the system should have launched at 399 with a free game but nope. They have been getting straight murked on every aspect by the competition and if theyve learned anything i hope theyve learned how moot the xb1x will be at 399 when the ps5 launches at 399-449

Hmmm thats all i got for now 😵

Nextgen is surely going to be interesting or just a continuation of this Gen, if MS don't start delivering on interesting first party games next year to showcase the x1...

Sony and Nintendo is all that matters :)

Microsoft has never beat Sony any generation

If power is so important

1. Why is the Switch outselling the xbox by a wide margin?
2. Why were the top game this year on the weaker Switch?

Yes MS misstep at the start didn't help. However its not power why they lost. They lost because of a combination of things.

The two key factors where

1. Games
2. Price

Polygon and MS still does not get it.

Polygon? Where is the mute button?

Xbox just need go multi platform next gen. It's their only hope now.

No surprise the end of the article turned into an advertisement (probably paid by MS) for X1X from this site.

Not even a single mention of exclusive games, the true reason Sony crushes Microsoft and something X1X does nothing to address.

This fight was over a long time ago. More, if the PS5 is launch 6 months before the next Xbox console, well it will be the same story again. Microsoft cant let Sony launch the next console before them. By launching the X late in 2017, well they seem that they learn nothing.

To have any kind of chance to be in the race.
1.º build more studios

2.º most be cheaper then PS5. Not the same price, CHEAPER. Microsoft brand in videogaming is miles away of Sony Worldwide. Only Nintendo and Sony can get away with being more expensive.

3.º Stop milking franchises that are over. They were very big, but now they arent. Sales wise....

4.º All executives of the gaming division of Microsoft should go back to school and learn better PR, because they have the worst ever phrases this gen. Its a nail on the coffin after another.

Polygon article. Yep.

There’s no fight between the two consoles right now. PS4 won this a long time ago, and the fact that PS4 apparently came out on top in November NOD proves that the X isn’t going to have a huge impact on overall Xbone sales.

Microsoft really needs to just go the Sega route and stop making consoles and release multiplat games. They got slaughtered this gen.

Not clicking on a polygon article.

MS big mistake was to think that they won last gen (the Wii did). They ended at third place and they are still at third place this gen. So basically nothing changed.

Because it is a PlayStation and nothing.

Microsoft sold sub par hardware. I owned an original Xbox one for less than a year, along side a PS4.b

Home Ui was nasty, digital store was confusing, console power was lacking. Snap features were a piss poor laggy experience (was my main reason to get an Xbox one to game while watching TV).

When you execute these half arsed features you will be left behind. Now they have the one X out, I'm not interested in purchasing it. Come next gen, I'll probably grab a ps5 over the next box, mainly due to the player base will most likely swing that way.

"and what it taught microsoft", nothing. absolutely nothing. they still pushed for a pricey console (yea its powerful) and still have no games for their 3!!! systems. they've learned nothing from anyone.

Hopefully, MS learned.

Xbox lost this generation last gen when all the disgruntled 360 users switched over to PS3, then didn't even consider another xbox console.

I loved my 360, such a shame it was ruined by 3 RRODS, one dead DVD drive, and one DOA (plus two had obvious cosmetic issues), among many other things. I keep my electronics pristine so paying full price for someone's piece of shit bothered me a lot. May as well have bought it used. Immediately traded in the final refurb and just bought PS3. Stuck with Sony until I went PC gaming.

Getting my 360 and playing just Ghost Recon (which was just the pack in game) was probably one of the greatest memories in gaming I've had since Mario 64 on N64 and MGS/FF7 on PS1. Game wasn't even that great but 360 felt like a revolution with the online, Arcade, demos, and previews and the interactive OS. I even had a blast paying UNO. Controller was a dream and Live was a revolution at the time when it cost $13 for a magazine just to get some game demos. Also, just upgraded to an HDTV and surround sound so the experience was kind of surreal.

The fact that I paid full price to get someones shitty refurb after saving from my minimum wage job (was a teenager at the time) felt terrible. Going though broken console after broken console and public transiting it to Fed Ex for close to two years made me swear off MS as a company for a while. I live in a major city but it still took my teenage self over an hour and a half to travel back and forth on the bus and cost me near an hour's wages of work. Then I had to wait 2 weeks to get back into gaming. Most the time I wasn't home when it was delivered so I'd have spend another hour and half going back and forth on the bus and hour's work worth of bus fair picking it up.

Xbox finally fixed their hardware issues with 360 S but then came no exclusives, Kinect, and a paywall to have access to Netflix and even IE (lol). MS put even EAs SWBF2 greed to shame with their end of cycle 360 business plan. The combination of "predatory (excessively greedy) practices", bad hardware reliability history, and 350 million spent on Kinect marketing to attract the Wii crowd while leaving the early adopters, who f'ing suffered, with the same Gears/Halo/Fable annual exclusives was the nail in the coffin. The last years of 360 had almost nothing but Kinect games and multiplats. Not to mention the PR department treated gamers like morons, when the only new exclusives were timed exclusives. And they tried selling us on how "great" it was for gamers but in reality it was money that could have been spent on new IPs being spent on marketing to the iphone crowd and DLC. Don't really support spending the majority of the game division's budget on content I would already had just so the "competition" can't play it for 6 months. Don't enjoy a game more knowing other people can't play it. Rather have had actual games like what Sony did and actually keeps on doing.

I really liked the original Xbox too, so I can say I was one of Xbox's earliest supporters. But damn, 360 was just a terrible terrible experience made worse by the absolute waste of potential. Xbox 360 was soooo close to being the top console in sales long term, Sony was on the ropes, Xbox "killer combo'd" themselves with greed and more greed (and thinking gamers were feckless malleable dumbasses that fall for basic marketing tricks). Then Xbox1's Kinect focus AGAIN lol. For more money and LESS power. Talk about being blind to your market base.

All 5 of my friends had 360s at the beginning of last gen, all 5 had PS3s by the end of it. All went PS4 this gen.

Super long post, must still be raw about it.

Not only this, mind you...

of course it would be an article by Kuchera. he's still at it...

I am not sure Microsoft knows or is even interested anymore TBH. Because they have stopped making exclusive games. 500$ mid gen console is not the answer I am afraid. They are going to be late a year or so when PS5 releases. But they need a head start for next gen and have exclusives if they want a chance to compete

If MS makes another console next gen and it only sells 20-30 million I can see them leaving the gaming market. 30-35 million consoles in 4-5 years is disappointing.

It really is dumbfounding that there are strictly Xbox only gamers

As a consumer for me it's a no brainer why Xbox has lost and will continue to lose. Unlike Sony and Nintendo Microsoft has lost its image. Microsoft knew what it wanted to be with the original Xbox but because the original Xbox wasn't "successful" or "first place" instead of Microsoft focusing to strengthen its original image they decided to become a multiplatform system and then proceed to deny that they were one. Even to this day that decision plagues them. Which is mentioned in the article but not explained in the fashion that matters to me as a consumer. Since as a consumer what I care about is "software" not hardware. Xbox One X can be delivering 8K and it still wouldn't matter to me if there isn't a god damn game I want to play that I can only get on that system.

At the start of this article polygon mentions "No one likes to come in second place, or even third now". The thing is that this industry shouldn't be taken as a direct competition because Nintendo doesn't offer what Sony does and neither does Microsoft and they shouldn't try to offer what Sony offers either. Microsoft should focus exclusively on offering what only Microsoft can. Sure 3rd party multiplatforms exists but that is not what defines a system. What defines the system is what you can get exclusively on them and that should start with 1st party IPs and then have 3rd party make exclusives based around that idea. Which is why Cuphead was a great idea as a "western" title to be an xbox game. Which was the Xbox original image not being an imitation of another system, aka Sony.

As long as Microsoft continues to not tackle this specific issue, which I don't expect them to they will continue to always fall short of Sony and Nintendo.

This article reads as a long winded advertisement and promotion for the Xbox One X. It's like "MS messed up at the beginning but look at the amazing Xbox One X, go get one now!" It's Polygon so I guess thats expected.

“The good news is that the Xbox One X proves that the fight between the two gaming giants is far from over.“

Uh how? That's just power talk and word on the street is PS4 won November NPD so most people didn't care about XB1X when it can't even help Xbox platform win a NPD during it's launch month.

According to XB users is due to the superior hardware of the PS4 over XBO.

Why XBX is not winning, i don't know.

The only way xbox could even have a chance at beating playstation is if it was half the price and has atleast a year head start but even that might not be enough.