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Aeolus451 on 22 May 2015
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Mr Puggsly said:
Aeolus451 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

Home consoles for the most part are a western devices. PS4 has done pretty well outside the west, but their primary focus is the west by a large margin. Even the Sony games that come out of Japan are geared towards western gamers.

Again, I would give the diversity edge to PS4. But it doesn't really matter, its NOT diversity that has given PS4 a significant sales edge. Xbox 360 did just fine with less diversity than PS3.

People aren't buying PS4 for diversity. They are buying PS4 for the same stuff they bought last gen. CoD, AC, BF, Fifa, Madden, a medicore Halo game called Desinty, a bad GTA/AC game called Watch Dogs, and ofcourse GTAV...

Sales of exclusive software is surprisingly close between PS4 and X1 considering the massive disparity in userbase. So we can't say PS4 is doing great due to Sony pumping out amazing games.

You're so concerned about diversity and a large library but there is already more on X1 than most people have the time to play. I have like 20 games in my X1 backlog in various genres and more keeps coming. Your complaints are just out of touch with the average consumer.

The average consumer/gamer is obviously not an xbox one owner. If the majority of gamers agreed with the bolded part, they would of went with the xbox one. It's game library is not as appealing to gamers as the PS4's because it's lacking games of different genres.   

 

Your argument fails because the games a vast majority of PS4 owners are buying are multiplat. The exclusives on PS4 are not what's primarily moving the hardware. C'mon man, common sense. LIke I pointed out before there isn't a large disparity in sales of exclusive software inspite of the userbase disparity.

People flocked to PS4 because MS turned people off towards X1 early on. Last gen PS3 turned people off towards Sony and there was a mass exodus to Xbox.


You can't just base it on just the sales so early into this gen. Like I mentioned before, early into a gen, people will buy a console so they can play the games that will eventually have be on it, not because of it's starting line up or early gen games. Why did you buy an xbox one?  Was it because of the xbox one's starting line up, early gen releases or third party games? No.

You would damn well defend the xbox one if I tried to say that people didn't buy the xbox one for it's exclusives and for the exclusives that will eventually be released on it. It's the same for nintendo and sony's consoles. Sales data doesn't matter so much in this because you can't track the sales of games in the future and the reasoning behind why gamers buy what consoles they do. Gaming polls don't really work because of the small sample sizes or the means in which they are collecting data. 

 You're acting like it's a fluke that the PS4 is doing so well. The PS4 has 50% marketshare. It's normal for playstation's consoles to dominate their gens. Thei PS3 is the exception to that and rightly so. Sony overestimated what people would pay for backwards compatibility and for a console in general.