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teigaga on 11 January 2016
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Mummelmann said:
teigaga said:
Luke888 said:

Again, explain me why it's better to try and replace a console with 70M userbase instead of one with 50M userbase...

 

User fatigue. Many people who  bought the PS4 early in its life will begin to see it as somewhat dated and the idea of replacement is more appealing. 

 

That's basically the argument Microsoft used against the Wii back in the day, that they would "upgrade" to a 360 once they were tired of the Wii. I don't believe it's a very good argument, to be honest.

Well we honestly have no figures on how many Wii owners later got a 360, im sure there is plenty of cross over but thats not a good comparison anyway. A fair portion of the Wii audience were essentially non gamers outside of wii sports/wii fit (same with DS games ala brain training, nintendogs). When Microsoft made that statement they partially expecting that those extreme casual/non gamers to eveolve into core gamers  and upgrade to a core gaming system. That isn't part of the argument here, the premise is that Nintendo will release a fairly traditional, future proof console ahead of the competition to absorb their late life userbase. A better comparison would be PS2 owners, moving onto the 360 in 2006/7 when the PS3 was hugely overpriced and slow to generate system selling exclusives.