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Price/performance
3rd party support: hardware and SDK was engineered to be developer friendly, early success only furthers developer incentive to prioritize the PS4 platform
Potential due to 3rd party support and Playstation exclusive developers

Consumer-wise, all they did was use the same model, but at a lower initial price for the hardware ($200 lower) and require a paid subscription for online play (but no paywall for services accessed through PSN), which is tempered by the amount of open access ("free") content your paid subscription is really buying.