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Rogerioandrade on 29 November 2013
justinian said:
Rogerioandrade said:

I believe that Nintendo, unlike many people think, isn´t really trying to compete with Sony and MS. That´s why they didn´t bother launchin SM3D World (and Zelda ALBW, Mario Party Island Tour) on the same week of Xbox1 launch

But they did. And they released SM3DW in europe the same day as the ps4 launch. Maybe your phrasing of the sentence means the opposite of what it reads.

Sony, MS and Nintendo are in the gaming industry so rather you want it or not they are in competion. I agree that to a certain extent they offer a different gaming experience.

Whatever way you spin it, at the end of the day they are all after people's money. Someone that just got paid with money to spend on one console on this day now have a choice. A true life scenario:

"I wanted to get the wii u and SM3DW but the whole hype around the PS4 today made it seem a better buy so I got that for my son instead".

Not the exact words used but the point remains the same.

Sorry, English is not my first language. I wanted to mean that they are not worried about launching their games on the same week of Xbox1 launch.

Of course they´re in the same market, but what I said is not what I want, is what Nintendo has been stating and declaring for a long time. They, at least verbally, do not aim at Sony and MS consumers. Even if they share the same aisles on shops. If they know their business well, they must know that it doesnt matter what they do, those people won´t buy their products.

There´s a reason why they´re focusing on casual and family gaming:  they don´t see all videogame consumers in a single basket. Me neither. 



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Wyrdness on 29 November 2013
Kane1389 said:
Wyrdness said:
Kane1389 said:

Uhh...what?

PS4 is on market for less than 2 weeks and X1 isn't even out for a full week yet and already you say they are not able to attract new consumers. So ps4 fans in NA alone were enough to create a single biggest launch in VG history?  Damn, imagine how big EU launch is gonna be


Every console has the biggest launch in history because the industry is growing even the Dreamcast had one

Except for 360, Wii, PS3, Wii U, 3DS, Vita, PSV and Xbone...


, launch sales are the early adopters and people who would of got one regardless of what's said and what they hear because they are fans of the brand. Regarding your bet Sony have already pretty much confirmed their shipments until the end of Q1 will not meet what you're expecting it to sell, even if it was sold out every week it wouldn't reach the sale's you're predicting as the U will have to stay stagnant on 4m for 4 months for the to be any chance as anything over 4m it simply won't be outsold, believe it or not the majority of shipments for Q1 comes from the launch period.

PS4 should easly be at 3-3.5 million by the end of the year, it should outsell the Wii U by the end of February as I predicted.

This is why we never base things on launch but more what happens towards the end of the launch year.

You don't have to do too much thinking to see PS4 will obliterate Wii U this gen



You sure you want to stick to that prediction it'll need to seel 2.3m in 4 weeks to be at that total which is an average of 500k a week.