Actually the slogan of "Greatness awaits" is fitting on this case.
People are buying it not because of what it has, but because of what it will have. Its a position every hardware producer wants to be in. They are selling the promise and people are believing them.
It was the same with the PS2. It had crap games at the start. Nothing worthwhile until GT3 came out 6 months later. The thing sold out like crazy until march. On what?! The promise.
The DC had come out earlier, had loads of great titles, had 2 great launch titles, including the awesome Soul Calibut and people didnt give a s**t. SEGA had lost them in the previous generation and Playstation sold the dream with the PS1 when SEGA dropped them like yesterdays hooker.
If theres someone responsible foe this whole situation, its SEGA and Nintendo with their mistakes on the 32 bit era. Forced everyone into the PS1 and it delivered! From there on people just wanted to keep living that dream, and thats why the PS2 sold like crazy and the PS3 managed to turn it around after a disastrous start. Now its the PS4.
I find Playstation very difficult to beat on the home market. Actually, i dont think its possible unless they make tremendous mistakes again like they did with the PS3. They even managed to recover from that though... so yeah... they have consumer trust.
Many people dont value it, but consumer trust is vital for a sucessful system. That is exactly why Nintendo cant just drop the Wii U, or they will kill themselves. Thats why Xbox buyers get angry at microsoft for dropping their previous systems 2 years before the next one comes. Consumers are people. They are investing in a console and they want to feel like that investment payed off. Its essential in the buy process for the next one.
