| baloofarsan said: It used to be the standard because of a reason: PSX - CD, PS2 - DVD, PS3 - BR. PS4 brought nothing new to the game. Worldwide presence: X360 was totally irrelevant in Japan and behind in Europe, still it managed to hold on to its (one year) worldwide lead until the last year before the shift in generations. The X360 sold 19 million more than PS3 in North America (48 vs 29). PS3 sold 8 million more than X360 in Europe (33 vs 25). The ratio for X360, Wii and PS3 in North America is 39% - 37% - 24% Now Japan is irrelevant to all except Wii U (25%). PS4 sells on par wiith XB0 in North America (7 vs 6) and more than double in Europe (7 vs 3). http://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/ |
That's not it at all. I live in EU and while some families might have bought the consoles for dvds and brs, most didn't. All the people I know bought it for games. It doesn't even matter if they're exclusive or not...if it's on PS, it's exclusive to PS. The Japan situation stretches to a lot of other countries throughout the world. The word "console" is often replaced by "Playstation". (this was due to PS1+PS2 domination and hardly any Nintendo+MS presence, not because they played movies). PS4 didn't need to bring a successor to BR to achieve anything, it just needed to be called Playstation and not miss out on games like COD, GTA, etc. As well as not launch at a premium price. Success guaranteed.
PS3's launch price and late start was the cause of what you said, nothing else. With those out of the way, victory was assured from the start.
