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QuintonMcLeod on 28 March 2014
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pezus said:
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pezus said:
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ImmortalHelixFossil said:
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Good. Then you cannot get angry if another person tells you that the PS4 has no games. You have already explained to us that it doesn't. I'm talking about retail exclusive games. The PS4 barely has any, and the ones they have are mediocre based on their scores on Metacritic. If Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze can bare a score higher than every single Sony retail exclusive, then there's a serious problem here.

 

It's a pitty that the PS4 doesn't have any games that suits you. Still, I'm glad that there are millions of other people who bought a PS4, because it suits them. We all got our differences. 


But software sales are down. PS4 owners are not buying games. Herein lies the problem.

Down, from what?

PS4 has sold over 15m games in 4 months. Compare that with WiiU, which had sold around 6m games after 4 months with ~2m of them being the hard-bundled NintendoLand (couldn't buy a WiiU without it).


Down from last year. It's been on a steady decline. As for your comparison, the Wii U only sold around 3.6 million units within 4 months. Would you consider that a fair comparison?

Yeah, can you copy that quote directly here to this thread for me, where PS4 software is "down from last year"?

Regarding the comparison, yeah I would, since you were just now comparing software sales of a 1.5 year old system with <0.5 year old system. It's as if you expect console owners to only buy games when they buy their consoles and then never again.


1) I've already provided the links. Check the NPD numbers if you like. All the data is out there for you to explore.

2) That doesn't make your claims correct. In fact, it makes them wrong. If console A sells 3.6 million units in 4 months while console B sells 6.3 million within the same time period, it's very difficult to say that one console's software sales are better than the other. With a larger userbase, you'd assume so. If it's OK for you to make such an odd comparison, then I should be able to use 3DS software sales and compare it to the PS4. You see what I did there? It's not fair. However, comparing the PS4's current software sales to the Wii U's current software sales, you can make a better assestment since they are both around 6 million. So far, the PS4 software sales are pretty dismal compared to the Wii U.