160rmf said:
Ganoncrotch said:
If you think your average gamer on the street gives a rats ass about how many Gflops the machine has you are in the same boat as the people who thought a E3 conference for the XBX would be best started off by talking about Memory bandwidth...
The average gamer who goes to game stop and hands over their cash doesn't know what a GFlop is, they just know what games are and what they hear about on youtube etc. even going back 2 generations, the Wii was a Gamecube 1.5 in terms of specs, still outsold the still impressively powerful PS3 by a clean 20million consoles, Power isn't what gamers go for... enthusiasts on the internet do enjoy their power and list wars... but Enthusiasts are not the people who fund the gaming industry... not even a little bit.
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Yeah, people on forums tend to think that their beliefs is shared by the entire gaming community.
| Zkuq said:
High price, not very powerful, somewhat disappointing exclusives in the opinions of some, potentially difficult target audience, and being a bit gimmicky which is always somewhat risky.
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These look like very good reasons.
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Aye there was a poll on here a while back to see what % of users of this forum had upgraded to the pro ps4 and then how many would get the X model of X1, and trying to suggest that those figures would be an idea of the % of the total sales of the system, when the reality is that enthusiasts like the users of VGchartz are naturally a whole lot more likely to buy the premium console than your average joe who wants the cheapest machine that will play Fifa and Call of duty.
