Xbox One sells 3 million units

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First impression is important, yes. But I'd point to previous generation where PS3 was far more ****ed when it launched than Xbox One ever was, yet PS3 managed to pretty much get a tie with the 360 regardless of 360's year headstart and PS3s TERRIBLE start.

we weren't reading the same reviews if that's what your impression of what the 360's launch was. The two most common problems for that gen at launch were the YLoD on the PS3 and the RRoD on the 360. You're welcome to investigate for yourself if you won't take my word for it but tech reviews are virtually unanimous in listing study results that showed the PS3's yellow light at a 2% probability of chance while the 360 RROD was at 33%.

 

[Coreldan]

we weren't reading the same reviews if that's what your impression of what the 360's launch was. The two most common problems for that gen at launch were the YLoD on the PS3 and the RRoD on the 360. You're welcome to investigate for yourself if you won't take my word for it but tech reviews are virtually unanimous in listing study results that showed the PS3's yellow light at a 2% probability of chance while the 360 RROD was at 33%.

PS3s terrible start wasn't about hardware faults, it was about price and how hard it was to develop for so nobody wanted to develop for it. I didn't mention anything about 360s launch though, that sure wasn't good either. It doesn't change the point though that PS3 didnt make a good impression when it first came either. And well, we can all the same argue that neither did 360 and look how much both sold and how well they did.

 

[liquidkoshman]

With PS3 it wasn't as simple as 'oh, it's more expensive than X360...', because having BD drive was a big deal then and PS3 was considered significantly faster as well so the price was kind of justified. Of course the performance thing turned out a little differently in the end but none of it really mattered as both consoles did well...

 

[squadz]

Not bad, win for everyone.

 

[Rhody#WP]

I'm not so sure about that. Any good PR trainer of sales personnel and politicians will tell you the importance of first impressions. In today's world of tech, the media comes out of the gates with product reviews near launch time. Then they move on to the "next big thing". Follow-ups are few and far between and usually happen when newer hardware of the same name is introduced (ie. XBox 360S, etc).

For now I am going to agree that Sony has definitely won - this round. What MS would do if they were smart is to launch another XboxOne variant ie. "Xbox One Ultra" or whatever, I'm just making up silly names but you get the point. Price match it to the PS4, and get rid of the most criticized parts of this current launch.

First impressions mean little if people don't buy a product or developers don't support it. Betamax was the clear technical winner against VHS, but more people adopted VHS and Betamax ultimately failed. Many people said HD-DVD was the superior format over Blu-ray, but more content providers supported Blu-ray and more consumers bought Blu-ray players.

In this case, they will both do fine. In fact, many people will buy both consoles.

 

[TheJoester09]

I experienced the dark side of the Kinect being always-on. I was playing NBA 2k14 and failed to get a rebound. I swore at the TV, and the refs hit me with a technical foul. Whoops!

Are you serious? lol, I had no idea that could happen! hahaha