Is the PS4's Sony's Gamecube?

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Snesboy said:

Farsala said:
Cannot really be compared, PS3 is very close sales wise to 1st and 2nd place. Gamecube was far behind PS2 and dreamcast killed sega.

no. PS2 hype killed dreamcast. and fake "gameplay" tech demos.

Hey, someone agrees with me here. I picked my American Dreamcast system up day one ( I already had an import from Japan). The PS2 release was still a year off, yet they had huge promo posters and banners at the local Babbage's, Electronic Boutique's and Fun Co Land. I new the store manager at Electronic Boutique, and he told me that Sony had secret shoppers that would visit game stores and ask about competing systems. If the salesperson would try to steer them toward a Sony product instead, they could win a price for it. He talked about trips that were given out.

The power of the Dreamcast and PS2 real world were very close. One year later and Nintendo releases the Gamecube and MS the Xbox, both of which were far more powerful than the PS2. Rarely does the more powerful system win.