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What console did you think would win?

PS4 305 74.03%
 
Wii U 69 16.75%
 
Xbox One 38 9.22%
 
Total:412
baloofarsan on 03 January 2015
binary solo said:
baloofarsan said:
binary solo said:
baloofarsan said

 

Why it's selling so much better is a mystery is more a PR thing than a reality, the reasons for the current situation are fairly clear. But it is no mystery that it is the best selling. Also with a launch of equal hype to PS4, PS4 was still going to win because there is almost no way xb one would repeat the level of market share it had in USA and UK, and it was never in contention anywhere else. Best case scenario right now would be xb one at 12 million, PS4 at 14 million with most of that extra 2 million being USA and UK. 

Were you sure of all of this one and a half year ago? I knew what the forum dwellers thought about it, but they are in a minority when it comes to sales.



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HoloDust on 03 January 2015

Initially I thought MS had it more or less locked, but I was expecting different hardware, price and I thought they would launch with $199-$249 + 2-3 years monthly payment plan as option.

All that was before they've actually announced XOne - while I was fairly spot on with PS4's specs (except for CPU, was expecting full blown AMD 8-core), I was quite shocked how wrong I was about XOne, expecting 2.5TFLOPS GPU, thinking they would listen to Epic Games once more - pretty much from that moment on I was mostly sure that Sony will win, simply for MS shooting themselves in the foot.



baloofarsan on 03 January 2015
HoloDust said:
Initially I thought MS had it more or less locked, but I was expecting different hardware, price and I thought they would launch with $199-$249 + 2-3 years monthly payment plan as option.

I am still wondering why MS do not offer something like that. They got the economic muscles to do it.



freebs2 on 03 January 2015

I thought Xbox initially, then Ps4 after presentations.



Augen on 03 January 2015

Default is always Sony system due to their worldwide presence. I figured if they launched a competent system they would go 1:1 in NA, 2:1 in EU, 10:1 in JP and win everywhere else. I think if X1 had stuck with DRM it would have been far worse for them. As for Nintendo I never understood the Wii or its success so after seeing those people flock to mobile I never gave Wii U a chance. Yet it under preformed even my expectations.



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Maraccuda on 03 January 2015

PS4 due to brand name but only slightly.
Then Xbone shot themselves in foot at their press conference.
And Wii U got a lot of media hate.



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Galahaddy on 03 January 2015
Augen said:
Default is always Sony system due to their worldwide presence.


This. Unusually high launch price (and very high PS2 satisfaction) was the only thing that kept the PS3 from dominating. PS victory is the standard, Sony has to actively screw it up in order to not win.



Lawlight on 03 January 2015

Anyone who has voted anything other than the Sony console has not been paying attention.



riderz13371 on 03 January 2015
WhiteEaglePL said:
Before X1 and PS4 announced.......Xbox One.
After evil PS4 announcement , bashing Xbox during E3 caused a ton of hype and people didn't like DMR.

Also, to the majority, PS4 looks the "coolest" but too me it always felt, awkward. Looks are very important. Who knows what the gamecube could have sold if it was not purple,not had terrible shape, no handle and used dvd's. Could have reached 50m perhaps.

Confirmed. PS4 sold more cause it looks the coolest.

Back to you tom.



Nem on 03 January 2015

I always thought the PS4 would win because there would be no handicaps to the competition this time around. I did think the Wii U would be doing alot better though. Nintendo didnt agressively get behind it like they did with the 3DS. I'm sure the losses they took for that didnt please them but i dont think they understand the loss of goodwill that comes from not agressively saving their system.
With that said... maybe they felt that the system was not appealing to a broader audience and didnt see a point, deciding to focus on the hardcore gamers.