Shooter audience switching to PlayStation 4, says Sony

[NightDragon83]

Wright said:

This thread has taught me that a lot of people here seems to have some strange hate for shooters, which I personally cannot understand. First-Person Shooters in particular seem to earn a lot of undeserved criticism.

The hate mostly stems from certain gamers' resentfulness of the popularity explosion of online FPS's on consoles during last gen, which helped pave the way for the 360's success and also relegated some of their favorite genres such as JRPGs and 3D platformers to the back burner for most of last gen with only a few exceptions.

But notice how over the past couple of years the hate for shooters isn't nearly as bad as it was during the peak of last gen.  Hmmmm... wonder why that could be?

The top-selling PlayStation 4 games (all figures in millions of units sold-through since launch).

Pos	Game	Year	Genre	Publisher	North America	Europe	Japan	Rest of World	Global
1.	Grand Theft Auto V	2014	Action	Take-Two Interactive	2.59	3.40	0.20	1.61	7.79
2.	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare	2014	Shooter	Activision	2.62	2.86	0.13	1.38	6.99
3.	FIFA 15	2014	Sports	Electronic Arts	0.69	3.96	0.04	1.74	6.43
4.	Destiny	2014	Action	Activision	2.30	1.82	0.15	0.91	5.19
5.	Watch Dogs	2014	Action	Ubisoft	1.31	1.60	0.10	0.76	3.78
6.	Assassin's Creed: Unity	2014	Action	Ubisoft	0.94	1.68	0.08	0.77	3.47
7.	Far Cry 4	2014	Shooter	Ubisoft	0.89	1.71	0.08	0.78	3.46
8.	The Last of Us	2014	Adventure	Sony Computer Entertainment	1.44	1.28	0.07	0.63	3.42
9.	Call of Duty: Ghosts	2013	Shooter	Activision	1.58	1.26	0.05	0.28	3.17
10.	FIFA 16	2015	Sports	Electronic Arts	0.15	1.95	0.00	0.85	2.95
11.	Battlefield 4	2013	Shooter	Electronic Arts	1.19	1.26	0.14	0.26	2.84

Ohh, that's right.  Best not to bite the hand that feeds...