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quickrick on 19 March 2018
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Carl2291 said:
quickrick said:

yea 2016, and 2017 ps4 did better. all those games you mentioned were also on xbox one, which had a fire sale for February, that's why ps4 is down a bit, none of those games are major system sellers, except for MHW, and the fact that ps4 can sell this good in it's 5th year year at 299$ is mind boggling to me, i predicted 300k for ps4, with xbox beating it because of the  amazing deals.

$299 has been a magic pricepoint for as long as I can remember, especially when launching at $399+ and as I said before in this thread, the generation leader selling this well after 5 years is not a surprise. Far from a surprise, it's a given.

The PS3 and 360 both excelled in America at the $299 pricepoint too. I'm fairly sure both PS3 and 360 had their best periods at $299 (PS3 with the Slim/Cut combo through 2009/2010 and 360 with the $299 Elite baseline/ Kinect).

This isn't anything special or outstanding by the PS4, it's the norm. It's a standard they're somewhat keeping to. A standard set by the PS2, the Wii and the 360.

I think it's outstanding because the US market is clearly much weaker then last gen. we had 2 consoles go over 50 million last gen, not even one will do it this gen.