Video:Excuses Why PS4 Is Selling Is Irrelevant

[TheBlackNaruto]

Aielyn said:

TheBlackNaruto said:
So I have to ask what home consoles outside of the Wii have done better? Because if there are lot more that did better then you could make the case that it is really not doing well. If not them that would mean that the Wii was an anamoly....and if that leaves the PS4 doing better than pretty much everything else wouldn't that mean it is doing very well?

Unfortunately, we don't have solid numbers for the consoles before that for any single month, but the PS2 was selling quite strongly (I've at least found evidence that, in the US alone, PS2 was selling over 250,000 units a month in the early months of 2001). The point, though, is that people didn't consider the PS3 or Xbox 360 to be selling all that well at this point in their lives, and the PS4 isn't doing that much better in terms of weekly sales. Sales around launch are irrelevant - those are driven by short-term hype. Even Sony itself noted that PS3 was selling poorly in 2007 (source).

I think that was more so considering what they had came from with the PS2. So of course that was poorly for them. But the PS4 is currently out pacing the PS3 so it indeed seems to be doing well. And people were saying that just to down play things that didn't work in their favor. Yhe Xbox360 was MILES ahead of what the orginal XB had done so there it is NO WAY it was selling "poorly" and the PS3 at the same time was selling better(aligned anyway) than what the 360 did. Poor compared to what it should have been coming from the PS2 but that just goes to show no gens are the same and things happen differently.