Shuhei Yoshida: Sony's not sure why PS4 is selling so well

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I believe Console gamers were tired of gimmicks from last gen, Kinect, motion controls and all the other gimmicks...

just wanted an honest next gen console capable of playing games close to the quality PC gamers have already enjoyed but on a console ecosystem with a controller.


Ps4 fills that need and hence the popularity. Competition just went in a wrong direction.

All competition had to do to compete was chuck a equivalent 7850 in a box with decent memory to offer games at full resolution. Seems so obvious but only Cerny understood.
 
It's not what they are doing, but rather what they didn't. Sony is the only one who did not blinked during this generation:

- Microsoft got a more expensive, less powerful machine on the top of a DRM clusterfuck
- Nintendo WiiU is a failed attempt at trying to copy tablets

Sony's PS4 is the only console that did everything right this gen. It's not as if they reinvented the wheel or anything, they just applied common sense and acted cautious while their rivals fumbled.
 
Library definitely looks weak to me for a while yet. A few big triple As that aim at a safe, broad market (and therefore totally miss me) and a bunch of indy games that seem like they didn't really need a new console to be playable.

It does feel like gamers are investing in the future. I hope Bloodborne is not the only PS4 title to excite me in the next few years.
 
Perfect storm. Obviously, MS royally screwed up, and the hardware was great at a reasonable price. But also, the marketing was great. The PlayStation name carries a lot of weight with consumers and they used it well. And while MS was abandoning their platform the past couple of years, Sony really built a lot of good will with the PS3 that carried over to the PS4 by releasing some of the best games of that gen.
 
#1 MS screwed up. A lot of hardcore gamers jumped because of this. Sony took great advantage of it and had a clear message for gamers.
#2 $100 cheaper.
#3 Better hardware more power at cheaper price.
#4 Better multiplats.

They even have not released the hard hitting games yet (UC4, GT7, Bloodborne etc).

Don't jinx it Sony!! Keep the games coming and it will sell more.
 
norealmx said:
It's no difficult, come on, it's a lazy system, for lazy people, and has one of the most low-standards fan bases.... of course is every single dude-bro dream (down to "I'm no playing alone, see, I can SHAAAAAAAAARE!" stuff).
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norealmx said:
It's no difficult, come on, it's a lazy system, for lazy people, and has one of the most low-standards fan bases.... of course is every single dude-bro dream (down to "I'm no playing alone, see, I can SHAAAAAAAAARE!" stuff).
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Thank you for sharing.

But, hey now, I'm not of low-standard, I'm just low maintenance. There's a difference!

That's why it's all about those stability updates.
 
Sammy Samusu said:
Come closer, Shu.

Sony didn't win, Nintendo and Microsoft lost.

They tried to innovate, took the risk and failed, while Sony played it safe.

Now you know.

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I'd hardly consider Nintendo trying to chase after the tablet market as innovative.

What's worse is that even Nintendo themselves don't even utilize the tablet controller properly for the majority of their games.

Same with Microsoft thinking that Kinect is going to change the way how everyone wants to play games.

I'd say it's more like Nintendo and Microsoft tried to force unwanted features to gamers and got their arses kicked for it, whilst Sony is offered what gamers actually want.
 
I've never understood why either, there's absolutely nothing on the system that I want to play, and Bloodborne is the only exclusive on the horizon that looks interesting to me (which unfortunately looks good enough to sell me on the system). The WiiU looks to me to be the better system based on the current and upcoming libraries. Guess my preferences in gaming are becoming even more niche this generation.
 
RoboGeorgeForeman said:
I've never understood why either, there's absolutely nothing on the system that I want to play, and Bloodborne is the only exclusive on the horizon that looks interesting to me (which unfortunately looks good enough to sell me on the system). The WiiU looks to me to be the better system based on the current and upcoming libraries. Guess my preferences in gaming are becoming even more niche this generation.
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Not at all. An entire country seems to think like you.
 
Heh shu's an honest man. I like that. It really is just that case. It wasnt the hardware like many might believe or anything like that rather luck, hype, and fucking up on both MS and Nintendos part. Thats really it lol.
 
VanCityGamer said:
Not sure if you're serious? If you're just joking, then I apologize. But I haven't found it to be a game "shit show" at all.

Since I got my PS4 at Christmas, I've played and enjoyed the following: Resogun, AC4, BF4, Outlast, Infamous: SS, Watch Dogs, Wolfenstein, Destiny Alpha + Beta, TLOU: Remastered, and P.T. Plus there's a pile of games I'm interested in this fall. Sure many of those are cross-gen third party games, but it's definitely worth it to have the definitive/upgraded visuals now (and several good exclusives), with a bunch more great exclusive games on the horizon (Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, WiLD, Rime, etc).

Live From PlayStation has also been great entertainment, the DS4 is a fantastic upgrade over the DS3, and the price of the console is very reasonable.
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i mean i think the system may have a good future but as to why people got the system right now when it might as well be the videogame equivalent of a barren and brown open street in the middle of some dilapidated western town in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, parched earth tossing up tufts of dirt every step it takes, tumbleweeds bouncing erratically across the way... the world may never know.

I mean maybe if indies were real games or had budgets that weren't just embarrassing (who even enjoys things that are made for less than eight-to-ten million dollars? It's ridiculous! We're having this argument in 2014, really?), it's not like the offerings aren't basically just games people played everywhere else. When the highlight of your indie lineup for the year includes yet another version of Fez, yet another version of Minecraft and a Ouya flagship title, you know it's time to stop pretending they matter.

Yoshida is saying he doesn't know why PS4 is selling so well and it's no surprise. He is abreast of the entire games landscape and he knows that it's basically being propped up by remasters of Journey, remasters of Flower, remasters of Unfinished Swan, remasters of Last of Us. Hell if it wasn't for inFAMOUS, a game that prob would have been rated a 6.0/10 metacritic if it wasn't the only AAA exclusive game of any merit in for four months in either direction, the system would basically be renamed "The people who skipped PS3 console can now play the handful of PS3 games that were actually any good, with a stable framerate!"













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I don't know either.
I tell all my friends not to waste their money on a PS4 until next year, or if they like FPS, jump in with the white PS4 bundle for Destiny.
I would rather recommend people the X1 for the upcoming football season tbh.
 
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