The biggest PlayStation event of the decade was undoubtedly the PS4`s reveal in 2013. This defined the brand`s fortunes for the entire generation, as Microsoft took a poorly received (and quickly abandoned) stance on game ownership that required online check-ins once a day. Sony, meanwhile, just focused on making and marketing a games console. By simply allowing pre-owned games on PS4 as it always had, Sony turned Xbox`s mistakes into a major publicity win.
Over six years later, Sony ends the decade (and generation) as victors, while its rival, Microsoft, has spent the years since that E3 reveal absorbing some of the lessons Sony learned from the PS3. That is, you need killer exclusive games to sell your console, and that no one really wants to spend more than $400/£400 on a console at launch, especially when the games run better on a competing system.
The PS4 is now strongly associated with around five or six exclusive games that ended up being hugely significant to the con...
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