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Forums - Sales - 2nd August Global HW, USA &UK SW Up. TLoU Week. PS4 Beasting.

Dadrik said:
NightFox said:
Do you think that after the failure of Xbox One against the PS4, Microsoft will stop the consoles? I really hope not ......


This gen isn NOT over.

Remember PS3's situation last gen, and see how it turned out.

The only thing holding PS3 back in the beginning was price. Unlike XBone, which was negatively received due to it's policies and Kinect pack in. Price just made it worse.

Once the PS3 got price parity, or close enough to it, it started outselling the XB360. XBone getting price parity hasn't done anything. I think everyone agrees that the US is the only country the console was gonna be successful in, due to it's America centric features. Well....price and negative stigma took too long to get rid of and it's now made the PS4 the de facto console to own, even in America (XBone wasn't gonna get Europe and it'll be DOA in Japan).

If MS makes any price moves in the near future, it will not only be a detriment to their revenue/profit (since they already had to drop it to $399 so quickly), but Sony can simply match it since the PS4 is basically just printing money right now. It may actually be worse for MS to drop the price any time soon and have Sony match it. PS4 is already extremely popular at $399 with, apparently, "n0 gaEmz". Imagine what $349 or $299 would do? Then popularity amongst friends will start to set in (buying the console that all your friends have) and it'll just be a domino effect resulting in gen 6 all over again.

This situation is nothing like PS3s. Price and having some of the best 1st party studios in the world saved the PS3. MS doesn't have a price advantage, price parity has had a 0 effect, and their 1st party doesn't stack up to Sony's. It's a very apples to oranges comparison, actually.

 



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Ka-pi96 said:
Sony-For-Life said:
Hey everyone! im one hell of a lurker! i wanted to register sooner but couldn't and wasn't sure if i can, hope im welcome here :) oh and sorry for my poor English im not so good at it.

PS4 is beast of a console, the boost a lowly Remastered game can give to PS4 is really amazing xD


Yay another PS4 fan! Welcome to the site, and yeah PS4 is a real beast

thx dude, hope we can have great time here together, im not gonna be as half active as some of u guys but well i always wanted to be a part of great great VGchartz froums :)



Add me if u want :)

Xeon said:
Man, the PS4 is really killing it so far. The Last of Us is a great game to have on the system but Sony still haven't brought out their big guns yet.


You know, that's the impressive thing. So far Sony's been relying on their smaller B-tier franchises and exclusive marketing agreements and they're killing it. Once they bring out UC, GoW, GT, it's going to be game over. 



I don't know if this was already mentioned but did anyone else go through previous weeks to see the adjustments that were made?
Remember the high 90s and low 100s weeks for PS4, as well as 3DS beating it? All gone. Lowest number was 117k and was only beat by the 3DS once (launch week of youkai watch 2)



The PS4 is raaaaaping everything!

And people said TLoU:R wouldn't move consoles.



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PS4 sales will be insane when the big exclusives are coming out.



PS4 doing super well although I think it may have been overtracked a bit this week!



 



sully1311 said:
PS4 doing super well although I think it may have been overtracked a bit this week!


When has it ever been over tracked?



It's really amazing what a huge remaster game can do for ps4, this is really an indicative that ps4 sell by reputation and recognition brand alone and everything that sony decide to bring on the ps4 is just icing on the cake. I can't wait to see what the white ps4 bundle will do for ps4 in September, it should be huge.