Is PS4 the first console to sell like this without a fad?

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LethalP said:

We all know PS1 and PS2 only sold because they played CD/DVD's, and the PS3 proved that without the help of the new hot multimedia format (Blu-Ray was luke warm), PlayStation sales weren't all that hot, yaus? So it's strange to see Sony's gaming centric approach push the PS4 to these levels of success previously only seen on consoles with fads at their forefront (like CD, like DVD, like motion controls, touch screen etc.).

Maybe it's something else not game related selling the PS4? Because after all, no console in the history of ever sold the way PS4 is without some out-of-the-norm novelty compared to it's competition. So either PS1/2 sold for the same reason PS4 is, the library, or PS4 is an unseen anomoly in the gaming industry? Interesting stuff.

I reeaaally don't think, good sir, that the PS1 only sold because it played CD's, and although the inclusion of DVD playback certainly helped the PS2 sales, it was, again, not the ONLY reason it sold. Not even close. So I have to take issue with you saying "we all know" that this is the case. I think most of us would say otherwise. There are many other factors contributing to what the sales of the PS1, PS2, and PS3 settled at. And yeah, the library of games was certainly a much bigger factor, and ties the success of all the PS consoles together much more closely than the playback of various media formats.