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Danman27 on 13 August 2014
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Dark_Feanor said:
Danman27 said:
Dark_Feanor said

I don´t think they are stupids or any thing else but make money.

SE financial is not in great shape. They need money now, or they may be risking future projects in any platform.

The PS4 lead is not overwelming. And in fact it dosen´t matter when both consoles are so similar and more important, similar to a standard PC.

Developers and publishers have much more lavarege this time than last gen over the console manufactures.

It dosen´t even matter if the PS4 reach 200mi vs 20mi XOnes. There are still 4bi PCs, 2Bi smartphones and 1Bi tablets.


The ps4 lead is overwhelming. Every week the ps4 gets closer to possesing 50% market share in the gen. The ps4 currently has double the sales of the xbox one, and, based on sales, that's how it's going to continue to be. Closeness in tech to competitors doesn't matter. If you're imediately cutting yourself off from 80% of people who might buy your game, you're hurting yourself. and your last comment is completely irrelavent. 


Ok, so you think third part publishers and developers will stop supporting the XOne and go full exclusiviness to an allmight PS4?

Yeah... I don´t think so.

That is what I mean by "not overwelming". The Wii at some point had a 30mi lead over the 360 and was pulling more than PS3+360.

The 360 had for more than 3 years a 10mi WW lead over the PS3.

Things changed, things are changing, things will change.

Sony can´t sit on the PS4 early success and think that the others 150mi gamers from last gen will come easely to the PS4. 

Even if Microsoft decide to quit the console maket pubshers and developers won´t bend the knee to a single manufactory.

The home console bussiness is not that atractive. Microsoft was the last company to enter the market, more than 12 years ago.

Where is Apple, Google, Samsung, LG to fight for that big of a market?

Again, publishers won´t let them be dependent on only one console, even if it has 80% of the market you think it will have.

First comment. I never once said that. I'm saying, that I think it's stupid for a franchise that was previously all platforms to go exclusive, which alienates a large portion of the fans. Not false. 

Second comment. I don't get why people keep trying to draw parallels that don't exist between this gen and last gen. They're different generations. Just because the ps4 started out winning doesn't mean that it will end up losing like some people seem to think. That makes no sense. Each generation turns out differently. Could the xbox one eventually catch up and pass the ps4? Yes, it's possible. But ALL trends show that this won't happen at this point in time. The ps4 nearly doubles the xbox one's sales every single week. It makes no sense to assume that the xbox one is going to catch up at this point in time. You have to look at trends to make an educated guess, not just say, "well things could change!" If you had shown me when the wii had more sales than the 360 and ps3 combined, do you know what I would say? The wii is going to win substantially. But things changed. They may or may not change this gen. But no evidence currently suggests a shift despite Microsoft's best efforts. 

At the bolded comment. What are you even trying to say here? I feel like you're just trying to make your argument look more convincing by making it longer at this point.  Also explain the two comments after that. I legitimately don't know what you're trying to prove at this point. 

And finally. The 80% I was talking about. We can eliminate Nintendo from the equation because tomb raider was never going to actually go for that. With sony haveing double the sales of the xbox one,  66%  of the potential buyers would be on ps4. And this trend shows no sign of changing. Then when you factor in PC, you're easily alienating up to 80% of the previous fans of the game.