Pretty much. Great comparison actually. It definitely cant be the game lineup or the holiday lineup. I mean come on, its terrible. 

The PS4 will be getting all the biggest third party games plus they most likely will look better on it then they will on the competitor console, that's why it's selling so well. This gen is all about third parties

To be specific, PS4 is not successful on HYPE. Many pointed out Nintendo and Microsoft messed up, but gave vague details on why. Heres my take:

Nintendo completely messed out by not coming out with any games that the Tablet needed to be utilized with besides... Well ZombiU? They had an innovating idea but with no justification of why the idea was done in the first place. To this day, they're is NO GAMES that really implement why we really need a tablet for a controller. NSMb2, MK8, SM3DW, DK:TT, W101, Pikmin 3 and LoZ:WW can all be played W/O the Tablet, and those are the consoles best games. Maybe if Nintendo were to come out with games to show 3rd party developers what the Pad can be used for, they'd still have their support. Another reason is that Nintendo didn't come out guns blazing with none of its great franchises (Zelda, SSB, MK) etc.I remember buying a Wii just so I can get the CHANCE to play the Twilight Princess. Also the obvious reason is that its behind the other consoles in Specs, but IMO that's overrated because the Wii was still successful with PS3 and 360 being suprior in specs.

Microsoft first mess up was with their 360 (yes you read right). Most people that got that dreaded RROD vowed NEVER to purchase anything XBOX related again (including me), mainly because Microsoft knew they'd be screwing 30% of their launch date customers but still sold the defective consoles anyway. The fact that they initially told gamers they can't buy used games (misinterpreted, I know) that will work with the console, and they fact that it's $100 bucks more than the PS4 made them REALLY look like Greedy Company who wanted even the lint from your pockets.

PS4 on the other hand came out with a mixture of everything, 2 to 5 Exclusive games with a mixture of 2nd and 3rd party support. They sold simply an upgrade to an already great console. Forget the Gimmick Tablet Nintendo is trying to selling you, and forget Microsoft trying to pinch every last penny out of you. This console is safe. Sony will sell you the same games, which about 90% of them you can still buy on a PS3, that will look better. And the public iate it up buying upgraded games like COD: Ghosts and Last of Us :Remastered

And yes, I will buy a PS4 soon, when the price drops.

You're criticizing Sony for including a feature that people obviously wanted? A feature that has since become an industry standard? Heck, even Nintendo moved over to custom versions of DVD and Blu-Ray (for some reason they still refuse to allow proper disk media functionality though...).

Whatever x y z reason you want to credit to their success is irrelevant, the fact of the matter is both the PS1 and PS2 were successful not only a media devices, but as GAMING consoles. You only need to look at their software tie ratios to see that.

Even the PS3, while a financial failure, was a successful console sales wise. It even has the most critically acclaimed library of exclusives of all the the 7th gen systems, largely thanks to their 1st party efforts over the last few years.

I'm personally happy to see the PS4 doing so well. They may not directly "deserve" it at present, but when the competition is a console with almost no 3rd party support and another that has continuously shot itself in the foot, it's easy to understand why the PS4 is coming out on top. Sony being the only ones not to fuck anything up is all the justification anyone should need for the PS4's sales.

*jumps in* I wouldn't call it terrible, but it's sure as hell not good. It (and the X1's) deserve praise for being good as far as 1st years go, but it's still ultimately pretty dull.

Overall i'd say the X1's holiday line up is slightly stronger (even account for digital titles), but it likewise has had a worse rest of the year than the PS4. Overall both have had an equally mediocre 2014.

2015 is shaping up to be pretty incredible though.

Tell that to the Wii haters. Its all good though. Its because Nintendo and Microsoft screwed up.

The only time I can remember software backing up sales and hype is the PS2 because the scope of exclusive AAA games was just mind boggling but even then, the PS2 wouldn't have BECOME the best selling console ever had it not been the "it" console to begin with. 

I remember going to see a movie many months before the launch of that console and seeing a trailer for it before the movie. It was at that point where I knew my Dreamcast was, sadly, about to turn to dust.

Hype... it's real.

The "Bible" for this gen.
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Ok. That's completely understandable especially when you have a strong pc.

I didn't intend to argue about it selling on hype but rather argue about whether that hype was deserving or not. Looking at PS4's future lineup I think it is.

And where's the bashing in this thread? :S