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SWORDF1SH on 09 June 2015
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minderaser said:
SWORDF1SH said:
Good marketing, launched at right price, MS messed up consoles reveal, Ninty launched at wrong time priced to high, good games, good variety of games, popular first party IPs and a good reputation for 1st party development.

Not saying that Sony have the best games or the best 1st party developers on their consoles because that's subjective. But they have both games and developers of high standard, mix in the other points above and you get the success they have right now.

ps4 at $399 = right price but Wii U at $299 = priced too high.

I wonder what causes so much stupidity like this.

Right! Are you able to look into an argument more complex than you have.

 

Nintendo has great franchises and $300/$350 for the consoles wasn't much of an issue for Nitendo fans but I honestly think if it launched a year later with the same specs and price, it would of done better (strange I know). It would of been compared to the PS4 and X1 and although less powerful it still would of been $100 cheaper than the competition.

But instead the time of release it was compared to the PS3 and 360 rather than the PS4 and Xbox "720", and gamers had a different mindset on the Wii U. The problem with the Wii U is that it wasn't much more powerful than the PS3 and 360 and yet cost $100 more. People didn't see the value.

It's a strange one. Releasing early can pay off (see Xbox 360), but if you going to kick off a gen you have to show a significant leap otherwise you will just be compared to current rather seen as next gen. If you going to release a fairly weak console, do not launch first and release with the next gen (see Wii).