Sony is doing fine. They don't need to do much of anything else but drop their price on a timely basis from here on out.

At this point 1st party games are just icing on the cake for Sony and that'll come. No big deal.

Nintendo/MS had better 1st party games during the PS2 era too, and Sony still whupped both of them. 

Good to see them acknowledging it. Now let's see Nintendo address their third party issues.

That's all I wanted to hear. It's still lame and shameful, but at least he admits it. And that's why I always say Sony was better when they failed with the PS3 and had to catch up... they ended up releasing a ton of big and medium sized games. I honestly hope the XB1 sells amazingly well this holiday and make PS4 sales stay flat so maybe Sony wakes up.

Why should Sony wake up?

This generation is just illustrating beautifully how incompetent Nintendo and Microsoft are in the console market. 

Sony can dominate them and not even have to release any AAA 1st party games for the first two years basically. 

If anything what this generation has shown is that without benefit of a Sony making a $600 console and Nintendo winning the miracle fad controller lottery (two things that are unlikely to ever happen again), that neither really is capable of competing with Sony. That kinda sucks to say, but it's the blunt truth. 

the first step to fixing something is admitting to it

so one step at a time :O

LOL He is being modest as PlayStation is king of releasing a ton of AAA games every year! Some sequels to mega franchises and some new IP's. Most being M rated and usually all awesome-sauce!

They should wake up to the possibilities. Just cause they are selling well doesn't mean it can't be better. With more games, more exclusive content, they'll sell EVEN more and create a better perception of value on the consumer. To begin with, this is probably one of the main reasons why PS4 started the generation so well: most PS3 users felt satisfacted with its support. 

I bet 2016 will be a much better year for PS4's sales than this year cause it'll have much more first party content (as well as third party content too). They should carry this into 2017 & beyond, so they would sustain this amazing level of sales for a long time and prepare the ground for their next console launch too (which may only come after 2019 or 2020). 

That's why they should wake up, but given that Yoshida is aware of this, they are probably well awake now.

Yeah all that money they're making must be sobering them up. Really what people want from a game console is the widest variety of games and the best way to play that wide variety of games. 

They get it so they can play Madden or COD with their buddies. 

The PS4 got crowned the "it" console early on this gen because of better PR work on their part and better versions of multiplats. And that's really all they needed to do. 

Exclusive AAA list wars are things that hardcores like to argue about the internet, but really the average joe doesn't care about that. 

We overly complicate it, but really that's all it is. 

Beyond that Sony's overall "market formula", which is basically this -- make a global console and market it strongly in all regions, shift to a more Western centric focus (since the mid-2000s), market to the older Western male first and foremost then get other demographics later on ... is simply the best market formula. 

Nintendo which tries to aim a families/children first and then tries to win over hardcore consumers doesn't work nearly as well, and neither does MS' approach of fixating only on the US market while letting the Euro/Japan markets flounder (some of this isn't their fault, but the situation is what it is). 

He didn't say it doesn't sell as well, he said it doesn't do as well in terms of marketshare, which is pretty self explanatory when there's more competition. You keep taking the things he said and drawing conclusions that don't exist.

Didn't know his posting history but I guess I'll take your word for it