A major difference is that Microsoft learned their lesson and is demonstrating as such. Sony, as much as forum warriors try to exclaim that when humbled, learned its lesson and redoubled its efforts to put the consumer first, did
no such fucking thing. They dropped the price of the PS3 because it was grossly overpriced in the console market, and actually REMOVED features as they did. They had to have free online by design as PSN was garbage for most of that generation and they'd have looked positively foolish trying to charge for it next to Microsoft's offering. PS+ was a smart way to get more people back on PS3, though.
It's a testament to how much the Xbox One's disastrous reveal window dominated the press in 2013 that back in February/March 2013 when hackers found the old PS3 software emulator from the 2nd-gen 80GB PS3 just sitting there on every modern PS3 SKU, being used to run PS2 ISO--er, "PS2 Classics," but being locked down from disc access, the post didn't even leave NeoGAF. Sony was caught red-handed not even repackaging games, just reselling you stuff you could play existing copies of if they flipped a switch, and nobody cared. They were caught doing this well after they had supposedly learned a valuable lesson. The next console they put out couldn't play PSX, PS2, OR PS3 games. This is why I believe that if there's PS4 BC on PS5 it'll be more like PS4 BC
* then what we can be fairly certain Microsoft is doing.
To me games are games, what Playstation games are made exclusively for the German audience compared to Xbox that explains the higher ratio? Do we not see Xbox also get Final Fantasy and Devil May Cry and Kingdom Hearts? They get the main staples and some of you put way too much effort in thinking the more obscrure titles makes all the difference when software sales are quite small. Maybe Microsoft should purchase From Software, would that all of the sudden change things or are some so deep rooted in Playstation that no matter what they will never support Xbox over them?
I see a lot of EU people talk about this weird disparity in the Xbox and PlayStation libraries like there isn't some enormous library overlap save for a few Japanese games and some indies. At some point, it just reads like "Xbox would need to have Sony games and not Xbox games on it to justify a purchase," which is a perfectly legitimate sentiment to have, just...say what you mean.
