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Faelco on 19 February 2017
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Snoopy said:
Faelco said:

The Xbox One was $100 more expensive than the PS4 at launch. The broader audience didn't care for the slightly better resolution when they went Christmas shopping, but they cared a lot about that $100 difference.

The PS4 Pro would sell a lot better than the PS4 Slim if people cared that much about performance compared to price. But it's not the case, and it surely never will be. The Scorpio will also sell less than the XOne Slim, the difference in sales depending on the difference in price.

The brand image, the hype around the console and the games are 3 other factors at least as important as performance, if not more (surely more). The PS4 is getting great exclusive after great exclusive lately (Hatsune Miku, Tales of, Yakuza, Kingdom Hearts, Gravity Rush, Nioh, Horizon...), when the XOne got Halo Wars 2 and that's it. This is a lot more important than performance. People thinking that the PS4 is winning by a landslide because it was a few percents more powerful should think about it again.

A lot of those Japanese games are games that a lot of people outside of Japan don't care about. Take gravity rush 2, the game sold around 150k in it's first week and half of the sales come from Japan. It will have a hard time reaching half a million in total on a 60 million + install base. Thats why there is a lot of third party Japanese exclusives on PS4. If they were popular they will put them on xbox and pc for sure just like they did with FF15 and soon KH3.

People outside of Japan care so little about those games that Phil Spencer is going to Japan to beg for ports of those games on his console.

We all know the narrative "People don't care about the Playstation niche games", or "I would rather have Halo than the 10 niche games I don't care about you're getting". Yeah, but all those niche games "nobody" cares about usually sell pretty well and create entire markets and entire audiences dedicated only to the Playstation consoles. You want VNs? Playstation. You want rhythm games? Playstation. You want JRPGs? Playstation. You want any other kind of Japanese games, even the weirdest ones? Playstation. A lot of people, like me, just can't buy an Xbox because at least a couple of games they want can't release on Xbox. I'll take my 15+ weird niche games like Gravity Rush and Nioh over your Halo anytime. "Pew Pew Pew" is already overused by western third party games every year.

So, you can continue to say "Less games is better, power is everything", but this has been proven wrong again and again. It will be proven wrong again with the Scorpio.