8. The PS4 Loses Its Sales Lead As Xbox One Exclusives Dominate
Okay PlayStation fans (of which I'm right there with you), before you get all up in arms about daring to question the might of Sony's big blue baby - can you actually give one reason why it deserves its substantial lead in sales? Sadly, although we'd like to say it's down to the games, horrendous offerings like The Order: 1886 and Knack say otherwise. No, the reason the PS4 is so beloved has nothing to do with its system hardware or even things like exclusive content for Batman: Arkham Knight or Black Ops III - it's down to Microsoft messing up so badly with their initial Xbox One pitch, they cleared the playing field entirely. People didn't care about sizing up catalogues of games or console capabilities, they just didn't want to support Microsoft. At all. The result is now watching Sony struggle to justify their own success, as both E3 and the PlayStation Experience saw them barely show any strong first-party games. Their most buzzworthy titles are the is it/is it not cancelled The Last Guardian, a remake of Final Fantasy VII, seen-it-before Uncharted 4, a rebooted Ratchet and Clank and well... that's it. On the other hand the Xbox One has Gears Of War 4, Crackdown 3, Quantum Break, Scalebound and Keiji Inafune's ReCore. The PS4 can afford to limp a little thanks to such a dominating lead, but the Xbox One just hit a Sonic-style speed boost, and it's gaining ground, fast.
