So, PS4 is Selling on Hype? So what? Doesn't Every Generation Winner Sell on Hype?

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CGI-Quality said:

disolitude said:

CGI-Quality said:

The PS1. It didn't sell off of hype (it really couldn't). It had, arguably, the best launch of any PlayStation and road a steady line-up until FFVII came out. I agree with you about the PS2, though. Just so happened to live up to its hype ten-fold (while, ironically, being my least favorite PlayStation).

I am not so sure...PS1 launch games were pretty terrible and Sony marketing hype was in top gear. U R Not (red) Let's not forget the 1995 E3 sony had where they spent more money on their booth than everyone else combined. 

But to your point, PS1 didn't start selling really well until the great games came out, and it had a price advantage. Hence it wasn't all hype...

Ridge Racer? Extreme Games? Toshinden? Jumping Flash? To name a few. They were defninitely not terrible. Besides, I remember the marketing, but not the hype. Not for PS1. People didn't start catching on right away. It certainly had no where near the hype of either the PS2 or PS3.

A new to market console maker isn't going to generate hype from day 1. It takes time for the necessary hype to build. Pinpoint when sales went from competetive to dominant and that's where the hype will have kicked in.

PS4 sales were dominant from day 1 (globally in the globe of course, not globally in the USA) so the hype kicked in pre-launch.