#PlayStation5 vs #XboxSeriesX ; The Movie
If brand wars were movies, this would warrant my biggest pack of popcorn yet.
Though both yet to be released, the cold war between these two is just too "sweet" to ignore, especially as an avid gamer.
The battle for audience between or among the next generation of consoles is being fought in familiar territories; the valley of price, the hollow mountains of "specs", the tropics of first party games and the rough plains of communications.
If announcements and rumours (taken with a pinch of salt) are anything to go by, we hear the #PS5 arguably has a more formidable line up of first party games in the offing, owing largely to the successful #PS4 titles that would have sequels. The #XboxSeries however could be playing a price game by having not just one console at launch, but two (each at a different price). Long story shot, a tactic to potentially underprice an one of their two consoles for gamer to potentially get more users, while also having a more expensive and more powerful option. Time will tell how convincing the idea of having a less powerfully console works with gamers
In spite of the seemingly brilliant tactic we hear #micosoft (who makes Xbox) is exploring with multi-level pricing, #sony (who makes PlayStation) is rumoured to have cracked a more cost efficient way to deliver power on the next generation consoles that might eclipse the pricing tactic that Microsoft is looking to explore, specifically with a one of a kind price/power optimized SSD.
In all of these, we have not even touched on the promising communications campaign that the gaming giants are so known to flog (my best part).
Each time I see the PlayStation tag line for the #PS4; This is for the players, or #Sega's tag line from ways back; Welcome to the next level, as a gamer it tickles right and as a planner who games, it slaps even better.
I almost feel jealous of the team working of the "comms plan" for both consoles, but solace is in watching how this epic movie unfolds.
*Grabs Popcorn*