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wary-wallaroo on 02 April 2014
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sales2099 said:
wary-wallaroo said:
sales2099 said:
 

You just described Nintendo fans justifying Wii sales last gen. It is comparable in that both are the latest trend and "in" and "cool" product. Again I base this on the only AAA games PS4 has (KZ and Infamous) were never hardware movers.

Offcourse it doesn't change the reality, and that is ok. Just wan't to pose an alternate view to those with a inflated superiority complex.

I agree on your point about inFamous and KZ though I wouldn't say they didn't move any consoles at all. I've seen plenty of people waiting for inFamous before jumping in, so it clearly moved consoles. Unless you have some hard data, there's nothing to discuss here. Infamous came out and PS4 sold more that week. Was it supply? Yes. Was it Infamous? Maybe. It's pretty simple. 

With that said, the Ps4 would be fine without inFamous, the X1 would be dead without Titanfall (and it's well on it's way back to irrelevance). 

Well hard to argue this. I would say that KZ and Infamous did move some hardware, but I would still say the main driver is PS4 being the trendy "in" product right now, and there is nothing wrong with that. And I wouldn't call X1 going back to being irrelevant......I mean it ain't the WiiU.

I definitely agree, KZ and infamous aren't as big hardware sellers as say Titanfall or Mario. So we agree on that.

 

I still disagree on the main sales driver being the whole "in" thing. Yes, it no doubt has an effect, but I wouldn't say it's the main driver. The main driver is the price, value proposition, and great PR Sony's been doing. 

It may have been a bit hyperbolic of me to say the X1 would be irrelevent, but I meant that it'll likely drop back to the 60kish range soon and flounder around down there until there's an actual price cut. I very much doubt MS can keep it above 100k now that the Titanfall boost is wavering.  It'll certainly be no Wii U (since the X1 can still be salvaged in NA and UK), but that's really not saying much.  The mere fact that a comparison between the Wii U and X1 isn't that far fetched really paints the picture.