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Conegamer on 19 February 2013
M.U.G.E.N said:
Turkish said:


Exactly, what does he mean gaming centric? All the major gaming sites on the web are talking PS4 now, he's probably visiting NintendoLife or something.

I'm surprised you guys still don't understand who conegamer is

edit: blah nvm...this may take too much typing if I go down this road lol too laze. Just ignore him

I really do wish this forum had an ignore function like gaf does. Would make this place a much better place


Out of interest, who am I then? I'm not saying it isn't hyped, far from it. But I've seen consoles get more attention than this (arguably they had some form of announcement, and Sony have done an incredibly good job of building excitement). 

And the sites I mainly use for news are IGN, Destructoid and the Official Magazines for Sony and Nintendo. 

 

I'm pumped for the PS4. Doesnt mean everyone else is?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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bananaking21 on 19 February 2013

wow people are confused about this thread. its not about the attention the console got before it released. but the hype for the announcement of the console



bananaking21 on 19 February 2013
milkyjoe said:
It's getting quite a lot of articles and other such things on gaming websites.

Obviously this is a new phenomenon when a new console is on the horizon.


it certainly is getting much more attention than the WiiU did before they announced it



Conegamer on 19 February 2013
bananaking21 said:
milkyjoe said:
It's getting quite a lot of articles and other such things on gaming websites.

Obviously this is a new phenomenon when a new console is on the horizon.


it certainly is getting much more attention than the WiiU did before they announced it


I must say, the way Sony and Nintendo have done things are very different, and Sony has certainly done the right thing building up hype for the announcement here. I just hope it delivers now.

Guess we'll find out soon, right?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

bananaking21 on 19 February 2013
Conegamer said:
bananaking21 said:
milkyjoe said:
It's getting quite a lot of articles and other such things on gaming websites.

Obviously this is a new phenomenon when a new console is on the horizon.


it certainly is getting much more attention than the WiiU did before they announced it


I must say, the way Sony and Nintendo have done things are very different, and Sony has certainly done the right thing building up hype for the announcement here. I just hope it delivers now.

Guess we'll find out soon, right?

which is surprising lol and yes we will find out soon, sony really needs to have a good confrence 



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milkyjoe on 19 February 2013
bananaking21 said:
milkyjoe said:
It's getting quite a lot of articles and other such things on gaming websites.

Obviously this is a new phenomenon when a new console is on the horizon.


it certainly is getting much more attention than the WiiU did before they announced it

In terms of the pre-announcement period, it would be tough for the Wii U to even be a contender in generating as much hype, given it was a surprise announcement as part of Nintendo's end of year financials in April 2011...

It didn't have a big event hyped up for a few weeks.

There are plenty of other examples to point to though. I remember reading gaming magazines in the 90s, before the internet was that relevant, that had a latest roundup of rumours about the next generation in every issue. If anything the fact you had to wait a month between issues helped build up the anticipation even more. E3 seems less exciting these days for similar reasons. The instantaneous nature of everything has dulled the excitement for me somewhat compared to back then. People who've only ever known that might not feel the same way of course...



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happydolphin on 19 February 2013
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.



Somini on 19 February 2013

Before announcing the thing? No.

After the announcement? Remains to be seen.



Conegamer on 19 February 2013
milkyjoe said:
bananaking21 said:
milkyjoe said:
It's getting quite a lot of articles and other such things on gaming websites.

Obviously this is a new phenomenon when a new console is on the horizon.


it certainly is getting much more attention than the WiiU did before they announced it

In terms of the pre-announcement period, it would be tough for the Wii U to even be a contender in generating as much hype, given it was a surprise announcement as part of Nintendo's end of year financials in April 2011...

It didn't have a big event hyped up for a few weeks.

There are plenty of other examples to point to though. I remember reading gaming magazines in the 90s, before the internet was that relevant, that had a latest roundup of rumours about the next generation in every issue. If anything the fact you had to wait a month between issues helped build up the anticipation even more. E3 seems less exciting these days for similar reasons. The instantaneous nature of everything has dulled the excitement for me somewhat compared to back then. People who've only ever known that might not feel the same way of course...

I have to agree with this. We only got Internet a few years ago so before then any and all info. came from friends or magazines. The hype waiting for that E3 issue to come through was insane!



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

saicho on 19 February 2013
Turkish said:
People in this thread are comparing consoles after they were unveiled with the yet to be unveiled PS4. PS4 already exceeds the hype levels of those consoles, even pre-reveal.

Imagine the world after feb 20 lol.

this is simply not true.



MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.