Is Sony responsible for the PS4's great sales, or are Nintendo/Microsoft?

[binary solo]

Soundwave said:

binary solo said:
Clearly not screwing up is an important strategy and it is entirely down to Sony that they did not screw up.

I'm not really sure how Nintendo screwed up. Wii U is a good machine for the price (though maybe not for the launch price), the tablet controller works well, they might have been a bit slow to release games but they have a good library of games only 1 year after launch. Perhaps they didn't need a tablet controller and the Wiimotion plus could have seen Nintendo through 2 generations. But I think mostly Nintendo just didn't understand it's Wii audience and that most of them were never going to buy into the generation anyway.

MS did screw up plain and simple, almost in every possible way except they didn't release a console with a high failure rate.

$350 for something that barely outperforms a 7 year old XBox 360 was never a good idea in any universe. 

No, it noticably outperforms 7th gen but perhaps not by as much as the  serious gamers want. Besides, in theory to appeal to the Wii install base they only needed to massively outperform Wii, which it certainly does. But as I've said before, the problem was that most of the Wii install base either lost interest in console gaming all together, or were still very happy to stick with Wii and see no reason to move on. Nintendo just failed to read their reality and assumed they had an expanded committed fanbase.