Is it safe to say MS has gained marketshare this gen and Sony has lost marketsha

[QUOTE="elbert_b_23"]maybe but mostly only in america and parts of euthemyth01

maybe but mostly only in america and parts of euelbert_b_23

maybe but mostly only in america and parts of euelbert_b_23

MS already won this gen based solely on this fact. themyth01

Microsoft's 360 started this gen and jumped to a 8mil lead and had 100% of the marketshare with no competition for a year. Years later the Wii past it by....and now the PS3 is about to pass it by.

myth said that Sony lost its PS2 owners to the 360....well they have/ or can always get them back. The PS3 launched a year later for $499/$599 mainly because of BluRay....Either way it was worth it for Sony to win the format war.

If you think about it...what will Microsoft use next gen for their format? DVD again (not a chance), HD-DVD (LOLz), No-format Full Digital Download? (folks an't ready for that)....so what could it be...hmm BluRay? most likely.

When next gen starts. Sony has already said they will not let Microsoft beat them to launch.

They will most likely use BluRay again, as well as stick with their Cell chipset. So it should be easier for them to launch at a good price point.

[QUOTE="DroidPhysX"]

No matter how this gen plays out, MS certainly gained a surreal foothold for next gen, in terms of household name (xbox)

crusadernm

I agree. It's amazing to see them surpassed sony this gen, which I didn't even think was possible.

The factuality of your post depends on how you see it. This gen MS passed sony at the very start. Sony and nintendo has been gaining market share sine they debuted. Overall (all gens) Sony still owns overall market share but they have lost it to nintendo and MS (since both had added more hardware this gen).

Like i said. Everyone starts the Gen off with xero marketshare. You can say mindshare, yes sony has lost a bit of that but how can you have marketshare when your console is not even out yet. We might as well say that since ps2 is still selling then technically Sony still has the majority Marketshare which is not true.

Blaze-Agent

[QUOTE="Giancar"]well..yes MS had the chace to wipe out Sony out of the industry a coplu of years ago howevercrusadernm

There's always next gen to try for that. But that's still ways off.

It is. I don't think anyone can argue with that.

You know what, MS had a real good shot this gen at building a loyal fanbase ... Halo was a solid franchise to pull in a fanbase for the XBOX, but this gen they simply didn't expand upon it. GeoW pretty much caters to the same crowd, and when you take a look at exclusives that could potentially make people wanna continue supporting the brand there just isn't much there.

Sony lost a lot of past exclusives but simply replaced them with even better exclusives titles, titles that people aren't gonna wanna miss out on next gen and Nintendo well ha Nintendo has a fanbase that will never die due to the library being filled with iconic franchises.

MS pretty much mixed the original Xbox's and PS2s fanbase into one and then split it.

You know what, MS had a real good shot this gen at building a loyal fanbase ... Halo was a solid franchise to pull in a fanbase for the XBOX, but this gen they simply didn't expand upon it. GeoW pretty much caters to the same crowd, and when you take a look at exclusives that could potentially make people wanna continue supporting the brand there just isn't much there.

W1NGMAN-

Exactly, its something ive been saying for a while now.

Thing is at the start of this gen they knew that. Thats why you saw exclusives like Kameo and viva pinata to draw in the dedicated Nintendo base, JRPGs like Infinite undisovery, blue dragon, lost odyssey, Vesperia to penetrate Japan, WRPGs like mass effect to get that PC crowd and just a general barage of former PS2 exclusives like Ridge Racer 6, Ace Combat 6 etc. for that PS2 crowd. And of course all this was on top of Halo/gears/splinter cell.

And it was working too, 2005-2007 the 360 was selling incredibly well and from my experience alot of former PS2 owners were finding it appealing and were jumping ship.

For some reason they decided to give it all up mid way through 2008. They decided to exclusively cater to that crowd that buys Halo/Gears. It just doesnt make any sense to me because it was working.