PS4 is so close to 50% market share I can almost taste it

[zorg1000]

Azuren said:

zorg1000 said:
One thing I find interesting about PS1 & PS4 (the one that started the dominance and the one that regained the dominance) is that neither really did anything special and in many ways benefited more from the competition messing up rather than from doing anything great themselves.

PS1 & PS4 are/were moderately powerful, reasonably priced, easy to develop for, and feature solid multimedia features for their time. Nothing extraordinary but at the same time does nothing wrong, here's the competition for comparison

Saturn-expensive which angered gamers, hard to develop for which angered develpers, surprise launch which angered retailers who weren't included, basically angered everybody.

N64-went with cartridges instead of CD

Wii U-underpowered and uses different architecture compared to competitors

Xbox One-expensive launch price, bad PR (Kinect required, always online, no used games)

Sony kinda went with standard, run of the mill consoles while the competition shot themselves in the foot.

PS4 is currently the most powerful home console. I wouldn't call that moderate (unless we're including steam machines, which we're not).

From what I understand, PS4/XB1 in 2013 are not as powerful as PS3/360 were back in 2005/2006, compared to high-end PCs at the time. That's what I mean by moderately powerful.