PlayStation Was The Top Selling Home Console In The World For The 8th Year In A Row!

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d21lewis said:

Eagle367 said:
Sony's doing awesome for sure. Hope they don't get cocky though. They have a tendency to do that after success stories. I mean PS3 sold a shit ton and yet was a bigger failure than the Wii U in terms of money made. So hope they keep their heads down and do what they did with PS2 and ps4 and deliver an awesome PS5. But I do think that the next 3 years are the switch's since first year PS5 can't possibly cross switch just like switch first 2 years didn't. And remember that is with switch being ahead in the us in the same timeframe and massively still in Japan. Maybe even ps5's first 2 years it won't be no.1. we'll see what happens though. Do they screw up? Is it Microsoft's time to take back some of the gamers like it did with 360? How much close to PS4 will switch get and will it cross it? Definitely an interesting time in terms of analytics in gaming

I wouldn't say that doing something one time equals "they tend to do it". Sony kinda has this thing figured out.

Also, before somebody says vita, I think it was a worthy successor with lots of great ideas for (at the time) the same price as the 3DS. It just didn't catch on at all.

I think there are two big reasons the Vita failed to gain traction.  One, Sony went with their own memory cards, instead of the industry standard SDs, which meant the consumer had to pay a lot more for the same amount of memory.  Two, which is the more important of the two, Nintendo dropped their price by a staggering $80 just a few months after launch, mainly due to lowering sales and as a reaction to the upcoming Vita release.  Had Sony stuck with the cheaper SDs and had to go against a 3DS that was $249 for at least a year, there is no doubt in my mind that it would have been a close race.