{"id":107665,"date":"2016-10-11T08:08:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=107665"},"modified":"2016-10-11T08:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T06:45:01","slug":"the-ps4s-biggest-flaw-is-thats-its-doing-too-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/107665-the-ps4s-biggest-flaw-is-thats-its-doing-too-well","title":{"rendered":"The PS4’s biggest flaw is that it’s doing too well"},"content":{"rendered":"

In July, Sony reported<\/a><\/strong> that a whopping 78% of the\u00a0$546 million it earned\u00a0in quarterly profits came from the segment that encompasses PlayStation, reports Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This continued dominance is reflected in the console market with the PS4 having sold 40 million units as of May 2016, compared to the Xbox One’s 20 million (they have subsequently stopped reporting their sales figures).<\/p>\n

So they have nothing to worry about right?<\/p>\n

That’s not what history says and following the PlayStation 2 (the best-selling console of all time) Sony gave up tremendous ground to Microsoft and its Xbox 360.<\/p>\n

While one could argue that this is purely the cyclical nature of the tech industry, there’s also an element of cocksuredness that seems to possess the leading console manufacturer.<\/p>\n

Sony did it when they released the PS3 for several thousand Rand more than the Xbox 360 while the Xbox One immediately alienated gamers with its always-online policies.<\/p>\n

It looks like the same thing is about to happen again, with Microsoft is making big\u00a0moves to unify Windows 10 and the Xbox console<\/a><\/strong> as part of an ambitious master plan to reinvent itself in the post-PC era<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Xbox One S already upscales 4K content alongside the PS4 Pro this year, and\u00a0next year Microsoft will introduce its Project Scorpio which by all accounts doesn’t have a direct Sony competitor.<\/p>\n

Sony’s only\u00a0hope is\u00a0PS VR, but if that turns out to be a commercial failure, Microsoft could already be the winner of the next console generation.<\/p>\n

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Now read:<\/strong> PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 South African retail pricing and launch date emerges<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s why Sony is about to lose the next console war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":107669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681,4],"tags":[22687,8687,22685,71],"class_list":["post-107665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-dominant","tag-finances","tag-flaw","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107693,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107665\/revisions\/107693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}