PS4 fast approaching a dangerously 70% marketshare for 2014!

[eFKac]

Scoobes said:

eFKac said:

Slimebeast said:

The competition made so many mistakes going into the new generation it's not even funny. Complete suicide. We're back to PS2 domination.

Both of the competition will be terminated early and PS4 will dominate all by itself. In the long run the hardest competition towards PS4 will come from PC and tablets.

No and I don't think so.

 

I expect the Steamboxes to be a relatively niche thing, especially after the clusterfuck of announcements with overpriced, unatractive, sometimes unupgradable boxes.

Tablets, hmm. I don't think that the userbase who now own PS360 so probably around 100 million unique people to ditch console gaming for tablets as it is now. I don't expect tablets to become viable replacements for consoles in terms of games and streamlined hardware solutions during this console generation so 5-6 years. So yeah I think PS4 is safe until it will get good games and won't fail in the less important sections like apps OS and whatnot.

I wouldn't underestimate PC. Steam alone has 75 million active users and the advantage of PC? No need to reset the userbase to 0 every console generation. How long is it going to take PS4 to reach 75 million? And by that point Steam will be above 100 million active users. Even if Steam boxes are niche, that userbase is huge and growing.

Now that's just Steam. PC has a lot of other services with a whole lot of users too (gog.com, GMG, Origin etc.).

PC has been with us since the beginning of times, Steam of cause rejuvenated PC gaming and is an ever expanding service. But it already started being big this generation, it was not an obstacle to have the biggest generation in history, a least keep the status quo of core gaming consoles sold, in line with 6th gen (that's of course a very rough estimation)

How I feel about it, is PC gaming and console gaming always lived alongside each other and I don't see it changing drastically at all. Sure there are probabl, objectively less reasons to own a console over a PC than ever with less and less console exclusives and Steam. But for a shitton of people PC gaming is just not an option, with simple, streamlined, more socially connected and oriented consoles as more appealing, and I don't see Steamboxes changing that at all. I actually fail to see a clear target for the Steamboxes and in that see their niche character.