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Soundwave on 04 October 2015
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LipeJJ said:
Soundwave said:

Why should Sony wake up?

This generation is just illustrating beautifully how incompetent Nintendo and Microsoft are in the console market. 

Sony can dominate them and not even have to release any AAA 1st party games. 


They should wake up to the possibilities. Just cause they are selling well doesn't mean it can't be better. With more games, more exclusive content, they'll sell EVEN more and create a better perception of value on the consumer. To begin with, this is probably one of the main reasons why PS4 started the generation so well: most PS3 users felt satisfacted with its support. 

I bet 2016 will be a much better year for PS4's sales than this year cause it'll have much more first party content (as well as third party content too). They should carry this into 2017 & beyond, so they would sustain this amazing level of sales for a long time and prepare the ground for their next console launch too (which may only come after 2019 or 2020). 

That's why they should wake up, but given that Yoshida is aware of this, they are probably well awake now.

Yeah all that money they're making must be sobering them up. Really what people want from a game console is the widest variety of games and the best way to play that wide variety of games. 

They get it so they can play Madden or COD with their buddies. 

The PS4 got crowned the "it" console early on this gen because of better PR work on their part and better versions of multiplats. And that's really all they needed to do. 

Exclusive AAA list wars are things that hardcores like to argue about the internet, but really the average joe doesn't care about that. 

We overly complicate it, but really that's all it is. 

Beyond that Sony's overall "market formula", which is basically this -- make a global console and market it strongly in all regions, shift to a more Western centric focus (since the mid-2000s), market to the older Western male first and foremost then get other demographics later on ... is simply the best market formula. 

Nintendo which tries to aim a families/children first and then tries to win over hardcore consumers doesn't work nearly as well, and neither does MS' approach of fixating only on the US market while letting the Euro/Japan markets flounder (some of this isn't their fault, but the situation is what it is).