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Soundwave on 29 March 2015
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Sony isn't just attracting "a audience". They are attracting basically the entire modern console market. In other words they are attracting "the audience". 

The PS3 from top to bottom had a higher quality library than any Nintendo system since the SNES, so I don't think that really follows. There's a lot of good games on the PS3. 

Games are the no.1 downloaded app for smartphones. And many people are choosing to play on their smartphones and forgoing dedicated handhelds entirely. 

So where is your actual counter-point to "software sells hardware"?

The counter point is in an environment where every major platform has more good games than any person with a life could reasonably play, quality in and of itself is not the main arbiter of platform success any longer. 

This is not the 80-early 90s anymore when there was literally only 1 or 2 platforms with more than 10 good games on them. 

That's how Nintendo can have arguably 2 or 3 of the top 5-6 game releases last year in terms of quality, but still end up with the lowest sales. You can't just come to market with a great Zelda game or something and expect to steamroll the competetion anymore. Times have changed.