besides PS4 being a good platform the major points are Microsoft royally screwed up and Nintendo have been Nintendo as always.
Sony didn't need to say anything, Microsoft handed them year 1 on a platter.
I am pretty sure he was talki g about the comparison to Iphone sales.PS4 is selling as much as Wii Ltd
just liked the 3ds was selling better than the ds
Im not saying It wont sell well but the wiis first two years were something of miracles, it sold over 400k in july npd of 2007, and it had lines and sell outs in july. JULY, the system came out like 7 or 8 months before and it was still selling out and continued to sellout till the end of 2008 in a lot of places! The PS4 in comparison sold 185k for its first july npd and i could walk into to any store and grab one. the ps4's sales are very top heavy and a lot of it had to do with availability for launch.
and the iphone, i feel like i shouldn't even have to describe that hype.
Crazy how just 2 minutes of words led to all this...
They dont' know why is selling?
What the fuck is going on at Sony?
i think this quote is important:
Those who never purchased a console last-gen are now buying a PS4. This has surprised Sony and also surprising to me. The PS4 is less of a media machine than the PS3, so they must not be buying it for that functionality, they must be buying for the games - but why now?
The wobble is what sealed the deal for me.Could be because it smells good.
I'm not sure knowing your audience would have helped in the Wii -> Wii U situation. Nintendo could not have feasibly sold consoles to people satisfied with phone games, and Nintendo could not feasibly spin up an iPhone competitor.
Simple:I'm not so sure why either. It's certainly not the games. The Wii U had a better launch line-up.
I guess it could be that they made such a big deal about the No-DRM thing and the good press created a lot of hype, and the media was all on their side.
i think this quote is important:
Those who never purchased a console last-gen are now buying a PS4. This has surprised Sony and also surprising to me. The PS4 is less of a media machine than the PS3, so they must not be buying it for that functionality, they must be buying for the games - but why now?
I don't really care about the fact that the games are kind of sparse right now. It's the right hardware at the right price and the games WILL come.
If you ask me, the Wii U was designed as a way to "advance" casual gamers to more sophisticated gaming. Sort of like how Wii Sports transitioned to Wii Sports Resort, and how they thought the players of those games would then translate to more advanced forms of gaming. They gave talks on this, proclaiming up how they were cultivating new console gamers with these casual gamers.
The problem with that premise was that they didn't understand that this audience was already gone and was not really moving into more hardcore games like they thought- in other words they misunderstood their audience. They likely would have gone in another direction entirely with the Wii U if they had truly understood that in the first place.
If there are people who never bought a Wii or any of the 7th Gen consoles, who the fuck are they? Where they playing on their tablets before then? If so, what compelled them to pick up a PS4? Who are these mystery people and what do they want? It can't be just games...
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Probably because ms screwed up so badly in addition to sony generally being smart?
Huh? This doesn't make any sense. Didn't Sony made a huge detailed splash on the day they revealed the PS4 saying why this is the best system to play games in? Saying this is the best place for gamers? Giving us the most powerful console in the planet supposedly with some of the most amazing exclusives there is....and now it's like: I don't know why people are buying it! Seriously wtf is he thinking?
You know what, upon seeing how Sony is completely baffled and acting nonsensical when it comes to the PS VITA it appears some of these suits actually drank the "mobile phone gaming future" Kool-Aid from the new kids on the block. Which is about as stupid as a restaurant preparing to close up shop because a hot-dog stand opened up in the corner. Yes of course we want dedicated devices bro who in the world told ya that we didn't?
WAKE DA F<&% up bro it's selling because GAMERS are buying it. As far as new people coming into gaming well what do you expect for crying out loud?! It's an amazing medium in which more people are getting exposed and guess what.... more people get born every day. There will be tons of new kids which first system is a PS4.
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if I had to guess I'd say because Nintendo and MS just made bad products. All Sony did was watch them crash and burn while playing it safe.
Wait, so who are these people who didn't own a PS3, a 360, or a Wii and are now buying PS4s? It's an audience that I would imagine would have at least purchased Wii last gen.
Maybe mobile is helping consoles by getting people who would have never played video games before to buy PS4s? Somewhere between the occasional video game, the media capabilities, and the hype they are deciding to buy a PS4.
You have to convince the people complaining now that that's the case. I don't think a large majority really have figured that out yet. Most people on GAF probably have, but I think there's still a majority out there still upset.
IMO the Wii U proposition was made more to the parents of kids that play games than Wii owners or even gamers. Off-TV is a not-so-subtle "your brats can play it even while you're watching the game!" But the Wii U has no one flaw, so it's really hard to tell what all went wrong, or how well it "should" be doing if it were doing well, considering the loss of all those Wii-only people.