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Netyaroze on 19 February 2013
Veknoid_Outcast said:
I think the Wii got more media attention -- good and bad -- than Sony's successor to PS3.

Honestly, if it wasn't for this site I wouldn't have known about February 20. Meanwhile, in 2006, I was being bombarded with news about Wii from all sides.

I don't think many people outside of our bubble are aware of Sony's press conference or the rumored specs of PS4. There's nothing really transcendent about PS4 so far, whereas Wii captured the imagination of people beyond the video game world.


The Wii got no Media Attention before it was announced it was all about PS3 in 2005. Nobody cared about the GameCube Successor.  All the Wii  hype started afterwards. Wii didnt capture the imagination of anyone because nobody knew what it was all about, like PS4 right now. So your point kind of falls apart. However..

 

I also disagree with the Original post the most hyped console pre announcment was the Playstation 2 by far, just the prospect of it releasing killed of a competitor. Its like Nintendo would pull out of the Console race now because the shadow of PS4 would be crushing it before it was even revealed. The PS2 reached hype levels before announcment just Apple reached afterwards (before the reveal of a product).  PS4 gets a solid interest and if the rumors are anything to go by it could eventually grow to a sizeable hype in the future.

 



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J_Allard on 19 February 2013
archbrix said:
Turkish said:
happydolphin said:
Turkish said:

I'm glad atleast someone understands. They're comparing PS4 announcement with Wii's 2nd E3 show and its actual launch.

First you say compare reveal against reveal, now the E3 reveal for the Wii can't be used.

Make up your mind.

Anyways, as Archbrix showed, the Wii had more attention. But online I agree that Sony fans are very hyped for this event, and that's ok.

 First, Wii wasn't shown in 2006 the first time, it was 2005. The only comparison you could make is compare Wii or WiiU prereveal hype with that of PS4 or wait after PS4 is shown tomorrow and measure the hype level, but right now, the PS4 is one of the most hyped products pre-reveal.

I think you and a few others need to go back and read the OP and thread title again:

 

"Have you ever seen another console get as much media attention as the PS4 is getting before its launch?

Really, I've never seen this much coverage. People, sites, reports are writing out lists of things Sony should and shouldn't do to come out on top. That is a huge amount of respect and criticism and Sony should feel honored despite their mistakes. They have left a better taste in gamers mouths for quite a few years despite a self inflicted first start. Anyway, If you can think of a time that another console brand in the last two gens has come out with more concerned press please add. This mysterious February 20th date it really getting to people. One more day! :)"


Nowhere does it address "pre-announcement".  It specifically asks "before its launch", and that's what many people in this thread are responding to.

Now, regarding just pre-announcement hype, you can't make a direct comparison between the Wii and the PS4 since Nintendo and Sony went very different routes with the Wii and the PS4 reveals.  Where Sony has decided to announce everything all at once tomorrow, Nintendo leaked details about the Wii over time.  Saying that the big reveal of the "revolution" was at E3 '05 is flawed.  All they showed us was the console's outer casing and a five second Metroid cinema.  Later that year at TGS was when they debuted the controller, and that was when the hype began.  Going into E3 '06 we still hadn't seen it in action; no games yet and little known about the specs - even the name "Wii" was barely revealed a few days before the show.  So those claiming that the Wii hype didn't begin until post-launch are flat-out wrong, as evidenced by the four hour wait to finally see/play the thing at E3.  I even remember reading that Bill Gates himself, who was at E3 '06, was seen shaking is head in disbelief when he saw how everyone rushed to Nintendo's press conference.  Again, as far as anything significant, pre-reveal.

Bravo, I tried to say it a couple times but you said it way better.

If you take the question posed in the OP at face value the question is silly because the answer is clearly yes, plenty of consoles saw this amount of attention and more.

If you move the goal posts as some people are trying and make it clearly "pre-announcement" attention then there's really no other situation to draw comparisons to.



osed125 on 19 February 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
People saying it's only from the gaming community obviously don't know about the ads they've been releasing today

I haven't seen them. But that's called marketing not hype. 



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crissindahouse on 19 February 2013

just saw advertisement for the event in the football game between arsenal london and bayern munich but forgot how the message was exactly. something like "be the first to know about it on the 20th" or something.



Max King of the Wild on 19 February 2013
osed125 said:
Max King of the Wild said:
People saying it's only from the gaming community obviously don't know about the ads they've been releasing today

I haven't seen them. But that's called marketing not hype. 


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Cheebee on 19 February 2013
Netyaroze said:


The Wii got no Media Attention before it was announced it was all about PS3 in 2005. Nobody cared about the GameCube Successor.  All the Wii  hype started afterwards. Wii didnt capture the imagination of anyone because nobody knew what it was all about, like PS4 right now. So your point kind of falls apart.

You're talking about 2005, but Wii didn't release until Q4 2006. At E3 2006 and after that, -well before Wii came out- anything and everything even remotely connected with Wii was utter hysteria. Madness. It was the hot item, and everybody was talking about it. Even trying to deny that is just... awkward.



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Max King of the Wild on 19 February 2013
crissindahouse said:

just saw advertisement for the event in the football game between arsenal london and bayern munich but forgot how the message was exactly. something like "be the first to know about it on the 20th" or something.


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=155375&page=1#

they are getting the word out



Chark on 19 February 2013

Well the "See the Future" video has 6.7 million views. And that's just the main one, I've seen another that has over 1 million. The evolution videos almost average 400k views. Facebook has over 400k people talking about PlayStation right now. Only 160k for Xbox, 52k for Nintendo, just for comparison.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

crissindahouse on 19 February 2013
Max King of the Wild said:
crissindahouse said:

just saw advertisement for the event in the football game between arsenal london and bayern munich but forgot how the message was exactly. something like "be the first to know about it on the 20th" or something.


http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=155375&page=1#

they are getting the word out

ahh yeah that's what i meant. champions league is huge!



Max King of the Wild on 19 February 2013
Chark said:
Well the "See the Future" video has 6.7 million views. And that's just the main one, I've seen another that has over 1 million. The evolution videos almost average 400k views. Facebook has over 400k people talking about PlayStation right now. Only 160k for Xbox, 52k for Nintendo, just for comparison.



Do you know how to figure that out for twitter? I know there is a way but I never use twitter