August 2014 NPD Thread! PS4 - 190k, XBO - 160k, Wii U < 60k, PSV < 6k

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fatslob-:O said:

Iamdavirus said:

More garbage..no, the sales are lower because they were able to sell million more at launch...if ps3 and 360 sold millions more because of more supply and satisfied hardcxore demand faster, there sales would also be lower faster especially during summer.....this argument makes zero sense.

 

Supply and demand how does it work?

 

Ps4 sales will go up big now....It is also just 1 month with NO releases........cherry picking months means nothing, overall sales do.

Is that you, FlamingWeazel ? Who ever it is I don't need this drivel or your antics included ... 

Face it! For a market leader the PS4 is underperforming and nothing will change that according to the data so for that I mostly agree with Soundwave on this part. 

This isn't "cherry picking" FYI. 250K or above is what anyone would expect from a leading platform ... 

Kind of brings us back to an earlier thing I said, though, (which I'll reiterate in case you didn't read it,) which is that measuring two seperate generations brings with it a long, long list of conditional addeddums and alterations. The PS2 was only out in Japan those months, BUT there wasn't the same far more focused attention to mobile and PC gaming, BUT the PS2 had a DVD drive allowing access to a media format that its competitors didn't, BUT the European market may have developed enough to offset the loss of interest in Japan, BUT there were far more 'console exclusives' during the PS2 generation, with less of the direct crossover we see today between the Xbox and Playstation brands, leaving the two direct competitors far more similar to one another than, say, the PS2 was from the Gamecube, BUT etc etc etc.

Measuring the PS4 against a console sold in a different time, to a different market, with different features and a different climate is very difficult, because the two consoles are dazzlingly dissimilar in terms of their strategies, the amount of exclusive software, even the mettle and aims of their competitors.

At this point, if Sony is facing a problem, it seems to consist of 'more people should buy consoles in general,' because if anything is causing them to, as you phrased it, underperform, it sure as heck isn't the competition. =P

So suppose my question, therefore, is what do you think Sony should do to get the market more interested in console gaming?