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How The Xbox One Helped Sell The PS4

Added: 22.08.2014 3:12 | 6 views | 0 comments

Erik Kain wrote about how the essential boringness of the PS4 has helped it with the hearts of gamers: to him, the core market didnt want any of the experiments being played by Microsoft and Nintendo so much as it just wanted a plain and simple, no-frills console, which is exactly what Sony gave them. Mark Rogowsky wrote about a few different factors, from the fact that the PS4 is a relative bargain to the fact that an extra-long console cycle created a swell of pent-up demand. In my last post, I talked a bit about how Apple has made us much more comfortable spending money on upgrading our electronics, and how the minimalist PS4 formed the perfect combination of exciting new technology and subtle status symbol. That all still holds, but theres another key piece in this still-nascent story: the PS4s chief competition, the Xbox One.