Horizon 2, God of War 2 and Spiderman 2 and insert next ND game says you're wrong

Well Sony has used the same strategy against Xbox since 2001 and won every time.

Games...

Series X is either going to be overpriced or MS is going to eat so much of the cost their shareholders will go apeshit and demand changes. Either way it's a bad situation.

The x1 launch mess up helped sony. I'd like to see how both do next gen

I'm pretty sure having a better selection of exclusives...or in this case, having exclusives...will work against any competitor's system.

Good old Forbes. They ride Microsoft's ass

I don’t think so either. The series x and s are gonna be great systems offering fantastic performance for the $. The ps5 will fall between both and be a solid system in it’s own right but I don’t see it being the destroyer of all like the ps4 is sales wise. Next gen will be very competitive with all three companies bringing their a game. It will be a great time to be a gamer.

The best strategy for Sony is let Microsoft free to do whatever they want to do, and then "win" by doing nothing.... :D

Yeah I mean when have great games not worked in the battle for best games console. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Yes it would. Of course it needs to be new and different but the underlying PS4 strategy is a winning model and there is absolutely no reason to deviate.

"A xbox one S strategy for series X may not work against ps5"

Fixed but I bet we get a article tomorrow saying just that lol.

You mean the strategy of releasing the best games, pretty sure that will work just fine for PS5.

Lol they'll be fine the only thing would hold the company back is if the PS5 would have games developed with the PS4 being the base model like MS is doing with XSX and XB1.

DOOOOOOOOOMMMM AND GLOOOOOMMMMM

So their argument is Sony just had "good games" and played it safe...

Talk about downplaying the games. Sony had the best games every single year. Some of the best games of all-time.

Yes, that strategy will work. It will always work.

Only someone out of touch with videogaming think this. Even if they launched a year before it would not change the reality. In every market Sony and Nintendo rule. Its not a matter of games or price or specs, is Just the power of the brand. Sony and Nintendo are first in the choice of hardcore and casual gamers everywhere. Microsoft this gen didnt get closer, in reality is even further away.

What's wrong xsx being powerful /expensive console ? Xbox and pc are two different things, you can't just categories them as least and most expensive platform casually , both of them are expensive on their own way , why the xbox has to be the second choice after pc? it's just a preference.

Sony really didn't have to do much, MS shot themselves in the foot. Obviously they won't repeat that mistake. The only question is did they lose ppl for good or can they still win back some gamers they lost? I think that's why MS been so consumer friendly and listening to the fan and taking feedback to help decide their moves. Something they didn't care about with 360 and the first year of XO. No expect them to outsell Sony world wide but the battle for NA and UK is gonna tight. They have no Chance in EU 100% all PS exclusives could become Xbox exclusive s still wouldn't win EU

This Forbes crusade for Xbox is hilarious every day.

PLAYSTATION that is all

Yip, producing great games is an outdated strategy, Sony should know better.

WTF has microsoft shown to make you beleive this? lol the only thing is they bought studios which we haven't seen much from.

But all the so called Xbox series x games for the first 2 years can be played on your Xbox one.

Or a decent gaming rig.

I don’t get all these pro hype series X articles as of late. Microsoft sure is acting like they don’t care where you play your games and are giving people a choice (which is nice). I like to think of myself as the average person in the “hardcore gamer category” and I can’t feel any hype for this thing. Hell many of my average hardcore gamer friends couldn’t care either.

Essentially I think it’s because the PS4 is sooo good for most gaming that the PS5 is a no brainer. I write this even though I’m becoming interested in making a gaming pc. The PS5 already to me seems essential. The series x just feels like it’s made for those that really loved the Xbox this gen. Not faulting Microsoft (I’m excited to see what it can do)...just not something I’m excited about.

A PS4 strategy for PS5 may not work.
No sh*t

Forbes lol!

It`s already working!

I don't get it... there is no such thing as a strategy to beat the Xbox... Sony just release high quality games that is the way to beat the competition... Forbes can ask themselves why Nintendo is beating Xbox is it because of a master strategy? No... It's because people buy consoles to play games and they have good high quality games... simple as that... I won't buy an Xbox to play State Of Decay 3 or Sea of Thieve (with all respect to the developers) because those games are not on the same level as for e.g BoW, Spider Man, GoW etc. Microsoft don't need a master strategy, they need high quality games...

9tf vs 12tf may be enough to lean me towards xbox, then again if all of xbox is on pc why.

We need competition back. I know MS won't top Sony, but if they both push each other, then we win.

Sony have won every generation they’ve entered. This time things will be much closer i think, possibly going to Microsoft for the first time. The closer the two are, the better it is for gamers.

Of course it will. MS have all but given up on directly competing with Sony, they're trying to carve out their own little market of GaaS. They might find success there, but they will continue to be dominated by Sony.

OMG PS FANBOYS are worse than Nintendo fanboys.

Sadly this will most likely be the reality. I've been watching how Sony operates since the PS1. They always get overconfident after big success from the previous gen.

PS1 did great but needed to do better. PS2 came out and dominated everything. After the massive success of PS2, they announced the massive failure that was the initial PS3 launch of a $600-$700 console. Sony thought they could get away with it due to brand name and the success of the PS3 alone. Luckily Sony learned their lesson and relaunched the PS3 a few years later at $300 peice point with the massive help of Kevin Butler. The PS4 launched against the Xbox One with the only upper hand being slightly better specs and the ease of access to the used games market that Microsoft was trying to kill at the time. PS4 for has been so profitable and successful this gen that I worry Sony is going to treat the PS5 launch they same way they did the PS3 launch. I fear they are overconfident again.

Forbes at it......again😉

If Scarface taught us anything, it’s don’t get high on your own supply. Don’t worry what the other guy’s doing, but don’t take your spot for granted either. Be humble, work hard, take calculated risks. There’s stuff you can control and stuff you can’t.

Well I would imagine that the PS4 strategy wouldn't be the same as PS5 strategy. However, the PS5 strategy will be a culmination of the PS4 strategy with a lot a bit of current standards and risks....

Which strategy? You mean the one that provides incredible AAA exclusives???

lol. That's the best strategy and if MS doesn't step it up in that department then series X will suffer the same fate as the Xbox one.

Don't fuck this up microsoft.

I think LeapFrog consoles will be the closest competition to this thing. You don't even need this console to play the newest games for the first year.

It has everything to do with exclusives and it looks like MS has already set itself up to fail again.

I think MS is doing somethings right, but there biggest setback is going to be forcing devs to build next-gen games that have to run on current gen console mainly the Xbox one. Now I get the reasoning behind this, but with games like ( Cyber punk 2077, and Doom Eternal) coming out and saying they are pushing this gen consoles to the max and possible forcing some delays, what does that mean for next-gen games?
I don't know about you or how people feel about it but this gen has been full of delays and that is one thing I hope gets corrected this time around.

something somewhere might happen

When I see "Forbes" I automatically dismiss..

I think it's going to be less about power adopting the Apple model of mid gen upgrades to try and stay on top, Sony's not gonna play that game, they're smarter than that wasting time and resources on marketing, they're gonna play the game more like Nintendo and Microsoft will still roll in last place because their first-party still sucks the big one, partly because they're so focused on online gaming versus Sony's discovery of story based gameplay proven to be more compelling with Naughty Dog games. Microsoft is still in a big struggle. Powerful hardware or not.

And while MS and Sony continue their pointless pissing contest Nintendo will continue to steamroller the pair of them with the Switch.

If you call continue making great games and supporting first party studios while MS fumbles the ball a strategy.

Or maybe not so different situation ;) Who knows, we will see when it's time.

The PS5 just has to show up. That's all the strategy Sony needs concerning the xbox

Xbox is like betamax, great hardware but all the good stuff is on that other system

As a person of color that would be in the demographic that could be offended by the graffiti... I'm not.

But that said, I interpret this as a very sincere mistake and appreciate the effort to avoid any misunderstanding. It's not about "bending the knee"—they never intended to be offensive to begin with and this is just avoiding any issues. The fact that people brought it up means there are people who observed this and made some big deal out of it. I see it as more of a funny oversight, but cultural differences are likely to have something like this get overlooked. It's more charming than anything to see ShiftUp humbly address this.

People are acting like they're unapologetic South Korean racists who are changing their messaging to hide some nefarious propaganda. They are not. It's two separate pieces of text that unintentionally fit together and realized, "oh, this looks really bad. We don't want to send the wrong message about the game or the studio. Let's clean that up so it doesn't give people the wrong impression."

There is nothing here catering to anyone. It is about not sending the wrong the message. Nothing controversial about this.