Soundwave on 19 August 2014
It's less about doing anything spectacular and more about just giving the audience a no-frills next-gen console at an affordable price.
Nintendo and MS both banked on controller gimmicks (Kinect and U tablet) that made their system expensive and under powered.
Sony is the only one for most PS3/360 owners that offered a big upgrade at a good price without throwing things in the box that they didn't want.
Think of it like tennis ... some times you win by outplaying your opponent. But sometimes you win by not having any unforced errors, whereas your opponent makes several of them.
