#1 in Launch Day Sales is a Meaningless Title

[Rogerioandrade]

superhippy420 said:

Rogerioandrade said:

I agree too. There is always a lot of hype around console launches.

Every main console launched since 2006 suffered after launch (except Wii), and some couldn´t recover from that yet, like WiiU and Vita.

The subsequent months of the launch are what really matters to see if a console will be sucessfull or not.

I agree except to me its subsequent years.  PS3 was the biggest failure of all time until the price drop, the remodel, and God of War/Uncharted came out.  The Vita is finished though.  All of its big titles came out and no one cared, and that is 100% Sonys fault.  The only franchise of theirs that is selling well on PS3 is Uncharted.  Killzone 3 was a flop, Resistance 3 was a massive flop, LBP2's sales were way down compared to the 1st one, yet they really thought anyone would want a portable console with those games as its base.   They are going to have the same problem on PS4 at some point too, they are very lucky that the 3rd parties are there supporting them.

Thanks for the good examples. Yep, you´re right. it may take more than a few months for a console to stablish on the market.