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NeoRatt on 03 September 2014
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Aura7541 said:
NeoRatt said:
Aura7541 said:

X1 certainly was overhyped, but not so much for the PS4. Remember, people purchase consoles of their choice as a long term investment. You never see anyone purchase a system for just one game. This is especially true after SCEJA's pre-TGS conference. The PS4's already-very-good 2015 lineup became even better and Sony has another pre-TGS conference on the 17th. Shinobi confirmed that there will be new announcements from both 1st and 3rd parties.

Early adoption is always a gamble. However, many consumers had a lot of confidence in the PS4 and their gamble is paying off, in my opinion.

PS4 is over-hyped as well.  For every announcement at E3 MS had an equal announcement.  Same at Gamescom, and MS has already announced a lot of Japanese content so at TGS Sony is just catching up.  Name an announcement and I will counter every one with an equal X1 announcement.  It is just that people are only listening blindly to Sony right now.

As for buying a console for the long term that is a pretty dumb consumer decision.  That is like buying a car frame with the promise of the engine and tires to coming later.  You have no idea what size the engine will be or what tires will be on it...  In games, you have no idea what quality the games will have over the next few years.  And just because Sony has a strong first party track record, people should not just automatically buy their stuff.  Track records can change, and we are already seeing some shift in the discussion on The Order from "greatest game ever" to "its looking pretty average"...

Console sales peak in years 3-6 not year one...  This is because by year 3 you start to see the critical mass of games released on each console that drives their sales.  That is why people are saying PS4 is over-hyped.  The amount of new, unique, and quality content available on PS4 is brutal.  X1 is slightly less brutal, and Wii U has saw third parties pretty much abandon them. ALL THE CONSOLES ARE OVER-HYPED RIGHT NOW.

MS didn't really announce much Japanese content. They only announced a few Japanese titles before E3 and that was all about it. Sony actually had some Japanese content announced before their pre-TGS conference. A lot of the stuff they announced during their conference were already planned out long before. It was just not a smart decision to announce them during Gamescom or PAX because those games mainly target the eastern audience, not the western audience.

Your car analogy doesn't make sense at all. A car frame is more comparible to the PS4 case. The car engine is like the PS4's CPU and GPU. The tires are like the PS4's RAM. Actually, there really is no need for an analogy at all hence why yours was so terrible. It's not as complicated as you think. The majority of consumers bought the PS4 because they saw the potential of the system. They know how much more powerful the PS4 is. They know how good of a value PS+ is. They know that Sony will deliver on games based on their track record. The Order: 1886 looking "mediocre" to some people isn't stopping them from highly anticipating other games like Uncharted 4 and Bloodborne.

And yes, console sales peak later, not at the beginning. However, Playstation platforms have always had a slow start, even the PS2. However, the PS2 wasn't overhyped at the beginning as it sold the most in video games history. Heck, all game systems don't peak until a few years later, but if you want to call the PS4 overhyped, you have to called all the other systems overhyped, too. However, at that point, it becomes incredibly silly.

TL;DR: PS4 is not overhyped. If it is, by your definition, every single system in video game history was overhyped.

The car analogy is perfect...  Essentially, you are buying something without knowing what quality of product will come later.  I wasn't trying to match engines to CPU...

PS2 sold well at the start and throughout its generation.  I don't think it was over hyped as it brought people a gaming device with a DVD drive on day one to the table and people at the time were wanting DVD drives for movies...  Unlike the PS3 that brought an overpriced gaming device and blu-ray player when people hadn't decided which HD standard they wanted yet.

PS4 has brought absolutely nothing to the table in its first year... It is just bigger and faster of all the same...