padib said: It's true the other two consoles sold on promise of games, not on games. In parallel, the U is doing well on its own merits thanks to solid games. |
I keep reading this, but I think it's far from the truth.
You have to take into account the ps' entire history and Sony's support of their systems. The ps3 was supported until the end of last uear whereas the wii didn't get much support from ninty the last year or two before the launch of wiiu. It's about customer satisfaction. I owned both a wii and ps3 and have no plans of buying a wii, but plan on buying a ps4 due to my huge disappointment in the wii. If you get burned, like people felt they did with the psp and wii, the successor rarely does well after that.
The fact that 3rd parties never had much faith in wiiu and ended up not relasing enough games on it combined with the fact that multiplats run better on ps4 made several people go with a ps4 instead. That's not a promise of games. It's games looking better on ps4 than xb1 or wiiu. And since 3rd parties are what a lot of gamers care about (cod, destiny, watch_dogs, fifa, etc), why buy a wiiu? The wiiu is mostly for people who want Ninty ip's and the majority of gamers doesn't seem to care enough to buy a console for it.
You simply can't know how many people bought a ps4 for Killzone, Second Son, and for best console graphics. Because in that respect it's doing well on its own merits (combo of hardware and games).