Xbox One - November 22, 2013

[I OU a Beatn]

Based on MS being intelligent enough to see that physical orders (market response) were not what they wanted?

You also start this post correctly stating that it is impossible for us to have knowledge of counterfactuals, but you then claim to have counterfactual knowledge. Which is it

If they wanted to improve early sales numbers, they would've dropped the price. Most people aren't like us and read this stuff about always online and used games. The thing that has Sony in the lead right now is mostly the $100 difference, just like why the 360 sold so much better early in the generation.

It's both. I'm not going to pretend to know which one would have won, which is what I said. That's impossible to tell, and like I said, only someone wearing fan goggles for one company would predict a victory before the systems even launched. I also said that it would be close in sales regardless. I wasn't predicting a winner, just making a point that the days of one company dominating the console sales like the PS2 are pretty much over, and regardless of who "wins," the race for the most sales is going to be close enough that neither one of these companies will care.

I don't think I have ever heard of Black Tusk until now

Not a game, one of Microsoft's first party studios that's supposedly working on a AAA game. They only showed a teaser, though, so I guess that's why they were disappointed.