PS4 vs. Xbox vs. Switch: Which Console Had the Best Year in 2018?
Who Wins?
It feels as though we’ve been saying that 20XX will be “the year of the PS4” for years.
2016 was supposed to be stacked with games that eventually got delayed, but we still got Uncharted 4 and The Last Guardian. Between Horizon Zero Dawn, Persona 5, and Nioh, 2017 was incredible. And now 2018 might just be even better.
We’re in the golden age of the PS4, people.
The past twelve months are another notch on the Japanese giant’s belt after having built some serious momentum over the past few years.
Their in-house games seem to consistently have an edge in production value, leading the industry forward with a commitment to quality that we just aren’t seeing elsewhere.
Ironically, they’re all single-player story-driven games, too, which flies in the face of everything we’re told about “games as a service” overtaking traditional game design. I actually think that’s a huge draw for the brand.
Years after plastering the “For the Players” marketing slogan in the face of Microsoft’s botched Xbox One launch, you’d have to say that Sony absolutely delivered on that agenda.
It wasn’t just bullshit. They continue to center the brand around the sort of quality AAA content that gamers adore and create visibility for PS4 that has won over the mindshare this generation.
As we move toward the console’s final stages of its lifecycle, Sony will be hard pressed to keep things going in 2019. Nintendo’s Switch is just getting into its stride, after all.
And yet, there are still oodles of awesome games that may or may not be launching on PS4, so who really knows? Maybe 2019 will be the year of the PS4… again.
