PS4 Pro: 10 Ongoing Mistakes That Just Cost Sony This Generation

8. You Only Love The PS4 Because Microsoft Messed Up So Badly In 2013

Coming off the back of the PS2, Sony had their chest puffed out, assumedly thinking they could charge the Earth for their next machine and people would pay it.

Well, they tried (six hundred dollars) and fell flat on their face. The PS3 was quickly labelled an overpriced bread bin, and Microsoft stepped in with the 360 to absolutely dominate for the duration. This then led them to repeat history, assuming we'd buy their 'all in one' machine, whose big selling point was solving a 'problem' (voice actvated TV) nobody had.

Like having your other half be unfaithful, when someone you trust to know better messes up, it draws a passionate hatred more so than just a random mistake. Once again the tables had turned, and Sony seized the day, laying into Microsoft with a hilarious "This is how you trade games on PlayStation" ad, before framing an entire PR campaign around the PS1 and PS2 being "For the players."

It worked. People bought into it in their droves, yet we've not seen anything as confident from Sony since. Think about the last couple of years - outside of Uncharted 4, it certainly wasn't the games keeping your tent pitched at Camp Sony. Such a monumental mess up afforded PlayStation a substantial sales lead, but time and again they've proven they really don't know what to do with it.