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Baryonyx on 26 October 2014
sully1311 said:
hudsoniscool said:
2 reason why it's winning in USA. Perception and marketing. U could argue the ps4 has better games but I could argue the opposite. Ya it's more powerful but wasn't the ps3 more powerful than the 360. And sony is marketing the shit out of ps4 while ms is not doing the same.

Really? I see way more Xbox adverts here in the UK and I'm expecting a LOT more with more SO than I've already seen, plus COD, AC and HMCC.

True.. i was on holiday in UK london.. i could see XB adverts everywhere.. even in the cinemas,  before the movie starts... They even advertised that you could only find Destiny on XB1.. which was kinda studpid since the Ps4 ad was right next to it advertising Destiny lol



 

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sully1311 on 26 October 2014
Baryonyx said:
sully1311 said:
hudsoniscool said:
2 reason why it's winning in USA. Perception and marketing. U could argue the ps4 has better games but I could argue the opposite. Ya it's more powerful but wasn't the ps3 more powerful than the 360. And sony is marketing the shit out of ps4 while ms is not doing the same.

Really? I see way more Xbox adverts here in the UK and I'm expecting a LOT more with more SO than I've already seen, plus COD, AC and HMCC.

True.. i was on holiday in UK london.. i could see XB adverts everywhere.. even in the cinemas,  before the movie starts... They even advertised that you could only find Destiny on XB1.. which was kinda studpid since the Ps4 ad was right next to it advertising Destiny lol

They probably added an exclusive to the advert to validate the claim.



fluky-nintendy on 26 October 2014

PS4 is better and Americans know it, even with PS3 they knew it but they felt betrayed somehow and denied to give Sony their money because of their greedy decisions with price, pretentious commercials, etc. But now that PS is cool again, it's just like picking up from where the PS2 left off.
Basically, it's all coming back to the natural state of things. 360 was the octopus.



...Let the Sony Domination continue with the PS4...
Abaddon on 26 October 2014

Its all about the hype and the media. I mean when you decide you dont just decide on early multiplat adoptions or anything everyone is claiming. You decide based on games, controller and system itself. System is more flexible than the PS4, controller, lets not even go there and games, well the third worth mentioning just came out for a whole year in a console's release and that was driveclub and turned out worse than it is even three weeks later.

And before anyone tells me about multiplatform games lets all remember their performance on the PS3 compared to the 360 which was also more expensive. Facts are simple, today's gamers are all about the noise. If its coming from the PS4 then they will be there. Imagine how well it is selling and it has no actual games other than Infamous.

Not here to argue huh x.x



Aerys on 26 October 2014

These kind of threads never go well



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 PS4: 17m   XB1: 10m    WiiU: 10m   Vita: 10m

 

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sully1311 on 26 October 2014
Abaddon said:
Its all about the hype and the media. I mean when you decide you dont just decide on early multiplat adoptions or anything everyone is claiming. You decide based on games, controller and system itself. System is more flexible than the PS4, controller, lets not even go there and games, well the third worth mentioning just came out for a whole year in a console's release and that was driveclub and turned out worse than it is even three weeks later.

And before anyone tells me about multiplatform games lets all remember their performance on the PS3 compared to the 360 which was also more expensive. Facts are simple, today's gamers are all about the noise. If its coming from the PS4 then they will be there. Imagine how well it is selling and it has no actual games other than Infamous.

Not here to argue huh x.x

You are off to great start on your 5th day here, congratulations.



Norris2k on 26 October 2014
generic-user-1 said:
Xevross said:

Lol exclusives are a very big factor still, people obviously aren't as blind as you and see that PS4 has more coming soon.


sony had only one exclusiv that had real impact, and that was ff7 in the ps era.

after that, sony had some great exclusives, but they didnt sold well.

last gen, uncharted 3 just sold 6,5m games that below 10% attachment rate.  im not even sure if they sold more 1sr party games than consoles.

the only first party game of sony that had a rate above 10% was gt5. (if it sold consoles or not u can argue, but it was no killer app)

 

I'm not denying that having a great attachment rate for one game is good, but you can't either just remove any exclusive below 10% to make a lot of exclusives equivalent to zero exclusives. In fact, the effect of exclusives is probably cumulative, especially if exclusives are in very different genres. And Sony has plenty of them. I would buy a playstation for uncharted, a friend would not care but buy it for GT. I was very pleased with a few sega games that were exclusive to the PS3, and I take it into account, whatever the games sold.



Uabit on 26 October 2014
vivster said:
Because Xbots never existed. There is absolutely no brand loyality in US.


Lol tell that to Apple



kumagawa on 26 October 2014

Online multiplayer is the reason.  People who play online want to play with there friends ansd so with Microsoft cocking up Sony took the lead and now it's snowballing as more people hop on.



cutzman25 on 26 October 2014

I have no idea. My ps4 collects dust. No good games for it yet



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