I flew too close to the 1TF sun and my Switch wings melted.

[Frogger]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

I didnt say gamers, i said the world but anywho lets go with gamers. PS4+XBO+3DS+Vita+Wii U have sold about 165 million, the most powerful of them has about 30% marketshare, of that 30% how many of them do you think bought it specifically because it was the most powerful? 10-20%? That would mean of the 165 million units of hardware sold this generation, only about 5% made their choice because of power.

PS4 has over 50% of the console market, and will soon be the highest selling of all of current gen systems and by a considerable margin.

And don't underestimate the role that power played in PS4's success; in a survey by Neilson, "better resolution" was cited as the #1 reason among buyers who chose PS4 over Xbox One: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2015/02/26/reason-for-buying-ps4/

No one is going to answer that they bought a PS4 because good marketing worked on them or that bad PR from the competition only gave them one console alternative. People thought the PS2 was the most powerful and the 360 was the most powerful. People still think the PS1 was the most powerful and that the GCN was the weakest. The mass market doesn't actually care. They care about what's most popular, and that's dictated by marketing and good PR.