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

[COKTOE]

Ucouldntbemorewrong said:

Barkley said:
I'm sure it's doing fine.

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Ganoncrotch said:

The PS4 is selling like this because of the X1 reveal. IMO.

That reveal was just an absolute disaster, they left the door wide open for Sony in all markets, even their tightly held US. So yeah... the PS4's Gimmick was Smartglass, TV integration, DDR3 memory, empty promises of cloud power (remember that?), always online, no more trading of games, Kinect always kinected (remember that?), moving all games from the console to Games for Windows Live 10, but yeah... for Sony the handy thing is, all those ideas were on the systems main rival.

I bought a PS3 after that reveal, and a PS4 soon after launch, after being a X360 fan all last gen.

Well not exactly.

PS3 at the end of it's gen had much hearts and mind share due to the high quality exclusive releases at the end of that gen. Where as 360 near the end was forgotten from MS with exclusives. Along with sour taste in peoples mouths with the RLOD on 360.

Then yes MS with it's $100 more DRM in place, gotta have Kinetic for it to work lie. Did not help.

Plus Sony showing the roadmap of Exclusive games coming within the next 3 years plus deals with 3rd party AAA games DLC first to PS4.

And now 3 years later with all the P4 Exclusive games coming out with all the mind share and installed base, it's just a snowball effect till at least next gen if not longer as long as Sony does not fumble the ball to PS5 in 2020.

 

With full BC poised to become the norm in the next round, and digital purchases being bigger than ever, this gen will see a "carry over" effect that's stronger than it's ever been in past generations. Building a customer base has never been more important than it is now, especially for Sony and MS. It would take a monumental series of fuck ups for a gamer to abandon their favorite ecosystem at this point. Nintendo is not exempt of course, but they do exist in a slightly different space. Still competitors, but they are more apt to be paired with a Sony or MS console, as opposed to somebody buying an Xbox and Playstation combo. MS REALLY fucked up more than anybody else. I don't see how they ever get back to XB360 numbers, which, make no mistake, were somewhat padded due to it's high failure rate, and subsequently higher than normal levels of recurrent purchases.

Last edited by COKTOE - on 28 December 2017