The first trailer for the XBOX One didn't even show a single video game. If I'm not mistaken, it was about somebody watching the NFL on there XBOX. I have said before that Nintendo focused too much on games, not entertainment, but Microsoft focused on other forms of entertainment, and barely on gaming. The PlayStation found the perfect balance.
To watch streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu, you needed to purchase XBOX Live Gold. The Wii U was better about it then that...my god. Microsoft saw the negative outcry about the XBOX being an entertainment system, the next trailer was all games, which confused people more then ever. But the damage was done. The XBOX launch was doomed. However, that's not the only reason the console failed.
The next reason, is that the graphics just...weren't as great. It's not like the Wii U, where they say they are focusing on fun gameplay over graphics, the XBOX and PS Consoles have always been about the graphics and games. Microsoft abandoned that, and it didn't work out for them. And when you charge 100 dollars more for a console with worse graphics, servers getting shut down constantly, an extra thirty dollars a month to access streaming services like Hulu and Netflix you can only expect to be shut down. The PlayStation sold more, and rightfully so. But lets go back to the question. Is the Console War already won? Can the XBOX One make a comeback? Well...yeah, Sony has won the Console War, and will win the next one as well, dude to Microsoft's bad calls. If Microsoft fixes some things, it can still mke money off of it, but it wont catch up to the PS4, cause that would be a miracle. And they just don't deserve to.
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