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enditall727 on 28 June 2014
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Kresnik said:
enditall727 said:


But you still wouldn't buy it specifically for a free to play game though. Aint nobody buying a console to play a free to play game. At this point in time, anybody who bought a PS4 without a game had to have the most boring experience with the PS4. The only way that probably happens is if the person doesn't have enough money to get a game with it or they just arent interested in the games that were out at the time of their purchase(basically being forced to have to settle for free to play games).


But who buys a console for one specific game anyway?  Without meaning to start a console war, I feel like only Nintendo fans flock to buy a console for one game.  Whereas I feel Sony fans buy consoles for a combination of games coming together.  For example, I bought my Vita once Gravity Rush/LittleBigPlanet/WipEout 2048 were all out.  I bought my PS3 when LittleBigPlanet/WipEout HD Fury/Metal Gear Solid 4 were all out.

So no, Planetside 2 might not be my sole reason for being a PS4.  But it would certainly be a factor in my decision.  And again, you're saying "you wouldn't buy a PS4 for a free to play game" like somehow having SOE offer an incredibly mediocre retail title would be somehow more of a factor?  It wouldn't.  Not at all.

I know where you're going with that and i see what you mean but i personally know of people who buy PlayStations SPECIFICALLY for Gran  only. They literally dont even get any other games.. Just Gran Turismo. There were even schools who buy PlayStations SPECIFICALLY for Gran Turismo. I know people who also buy Playstations for Final Fantasy.

 

I had a friend/associate who had and played nothing but Xbox 360 with his older brother and Dad. He had Halo 3, Lost Planet, COD and some other game. So me and a couple friends went to his house and we seen that he had bought a PS3 and he had the new God Of War 3( it was like 2 weeks after GOW3 came out). He had bought a PS3 SPECIFICALLY for God of war 3. He never really bought any other games from what i remember. He had told me a few weeks later that he was looking at this game called inFamous and that he was probably going to get it but i never went back to his house to see if he had ever got it.

 

I know LOADS of people who buy consoles just for Grand Theft Auto. They usually end up only getting like 2 more games down the line(like Madden and maybe a COD)

 

I know TOO many people who buy systems for 1 game but eventually pick up more later on.

 

I'm more of the type to wait for multiple games to be in the library before diving in, like you pretty much said. The only game i might force me to get a sytsem early is maybe Final Fantasy( if it looked good like FF7, 8, 9 or even 10).

 

But i'll probably NEVER IN LIFE run into an individual who bought a system for a free to play game.

 

Also, i'm not saying that PlanetSide 2 is bad or anything. It's just rendered irrelevant due to being free to play.