RubberWhistleHistle said:
well you and i both know that im not going to be digging up threads and such in the past, but i sure do remember a lot of "2014 will be the year of the 4" crap, people saying that its going to have uncharted 4, god of war 4, killzone 4, resistance 4 and other games that are going to be 4. and with mark cerny talking up short six month development cycles, i think a lot of people expected a little more games than what we have. oh yeah, and SECOND COMING OF THE PS2. glad that is out of everybody's system because its certainly no ps2. and what you said about it cant compete with ps4 on a technical level, thats assuming that being "next gen" has to do with having 8GB of ram or whatever other standard sony has set on how powerful your console has to be in order to be next gen. i dont know why anybody would use that as a standard, but whatever. they came out with a console at the same time sony and ms did, and theyre all competing for the same money. anyways, sales, at least in some part, do suggest that interest in wii u is raising. i mean, its base line nearly doubled since mk, and that raise in baseline is affecting sony's sales. i dont care what anybody says, the consoles are in a competition against eachother, and sales for one means there is a less chance of that person buying the other. so i do think there are a significant amount of people out there who chose to buy a wii u instead of a ps4 because of the games it had. and you know as well as i that it takes A LOT to turn around an image of a company. sony is still selling that many consoles because of the hype and the bad publicity of ms and nintendo at the start of this generation. it sure as hell isnt selling because of its library of games, its selling mainly because of pr reasons. look at gen 7 where, at the start, ms and nintendo had great publicity and sony was being made fun of all the time. it took almost the entire generation (about 2010) to fully change those perceptions, and now (2014) sony is king and people talk hella shit on x1 and wii u. think about it, the main reason the sales are the way they are is because of this great mismanagement of the wii u in the marketing department in the first year, the restrictive totalitarian policies ms was forcing on us with the x1, and sony capitalizing on that in combination with having a fantastic showing in feb2013. having a better game library is going to have a hard time competing with all of that. if nintendo keeps bringing games and fun experiences that are enticing to people, then the tides could turn eventually, but that doesnt mean sony is just going to sit back and make remasters all day long. sony will certainly fight back, its just that all this pr stuff has really shaped the sales how they are at this moment. i hope some of that made sense, im kind of high so forgive me if i just rambled and shit |
you brought it up, so the onus of proof is on you and if im being frank it seems you are either making some stuff up or are taking what VERY few people said and making something out of it to prove your point. show me this 2014 will be the year of 4. since its in quotes it cant be that hard to find. Sony hasnt even mentioned GOW so i dont see how anyone in their right mind could have thought it would release in 2014, Uncharted was well known to not be coming out this year. Sony is done with Resistance that has been known for a while and we already got KZ4
You're trying to bring up points that are irrlevant to what i was saying. It cant compete with PS4 or xone on a HARDWARE level, there is on spin to be done here that is straight scientific fact.
It doesnt really matter WHY its selling only that it is. At he end of the day the intereste in PS4 is still much higher than Wii U. And imho it will remain that way till MAYBE the holidays and then go back to favoring PS4 as it ahs been doing since it launched.
