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mornelithe on 26 December 2013
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tuscaniman99 said:
Lawlight said:
tuscaniman99 said:
Lawlight said:
tuscaniman99 said:
PS2 era will never be back. No console will dominate like PS2. At worst I see 2:1 PS4 over Xbox One but I highly, highly doubt that will happen. PS4 might hit about 100 million and Xbox One I see hitting around 60-70 million.

Might hit about 100M? It's a given that it will hit 100M.


You sure about that? The console landscape has changed. There are these things called tablets that will take some of the casual customer base. There aren't 100 million hardcore gamers. After the first 20 million PS4s Sony will have to attract the casual gamer.



If that was true, the PS3 wouldn't have been selling so much in the past few years. The consumers who moved to tablets are the Wii owners. There's still around 125M hardcore gamers ou there.

Not even half of that number are hardcore gamers. PS3 was bought by many people solely because it was a good BluRay player. Now PS3 is selling well because of other countries around the world finally buying in that gen and the price is right, or people are buying a second console. This is the first Playstation console without any new media features to push it. Sony will have to attract the casual gamer or it won't even hit 100m.

Well, firstly I don't think we have any solid numbers of the splits between who bought a PS3 for gaming and Bluray, so that's really theory, especially to say that not even 50% bought it for gaming.  I think that's a stretch.

However, Sony's strategy thus far has to be pretty clear (at least, this is my impression).  They've targeted the core gamer since the reveal, and as the install base rises, they'll start to expand upon the offerings they have for the machine.  Remember the early days of the Ps3, where Sony were lambasted for not having a focused message behind the machine?  Clearly this gen is about everything they learned from the last 3 iterations of hardware.  I don't think we've seen even the tip of the iceberg for what Sony (and probably MS) have in store for their machines.