| Veknoid_Outcast said: I think it's fairly obvious why PS4 is outselling the competition. Compared to WiiU it has more of the big third-party games that consumers buy, e.g. Madden, Fifa, Battlefield. Compared to Xbox One, it started cheaper and more powerful, and avoided all the negative PR that plagued Microsoft early this generation. What I don't get, however, is why it's selling SO well. It's almost a year later, and the majority of PS4's best sellers are available on several other platforms, including Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PS3. I don't understand why more people aren't waiting for the library to grow and the price to drop. |
I think that's because the PS4 is clearly leading from the beginning in term of sales and for about anything else, so there is no risk buying it. Avoid risk means avoid to buy the looser console, the console that will not have a good support, the console that will have disappointing hardware, or that will end quickly. I believe risk, with price, is one of the major reason for people to wait. And the other reason to wait, price: you can't really expect a incredible bargain if the starting price is 400$ and it's leading by a large marge.
That's also one of the only bad thing that I believe could happen to the PS4, it could be that the PS4 is not selling more, but just selling faster, with quicker early adopter. It would, indeed, have been smoke and mirror. But I think they can manage with a cheaper price, more spending then can afford from better sales, opening more to casuals
