Sony's Missteps In North America

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rolltide101x on 19 December 2014

Aura7541 said:

I agree with this. The impression I have with Sony is that they are aiming to sell the PS4 efficiently. Yeah, it got outsold by about 400K in the US last month, but it still enjoyed one of the best Novembers in console history. Andrew House said that they're meeting expectations for December in the US while struggling to meet demand in Europe. So while Sony can cut the price and "end the console war", it's not an efficient way to sell a lot of systems.

Are there people claiming the PS4 should cut the price? It would not at all make sense right now

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Aura7541 on 19 December 2014

rolltide101x said:

Aura7541 said:

I agree with this. The impression I have with Sony is that they are aiming to sell the PS4 efficiently. Yeah, it got outsold by about 400K in the US last month, but it still enjoyed one of the best Novembers in console history. Andrew House said that they're meeting expectations for December in the US while struggling to meet demand in Europe. So while Sony can cut the price and "end the console war", it's not an efficient way to sell a lot of systems.

Are there people claiming the PS4 should cut the price? It would not at all make sense right now

You'd be surprised at how many people claimed that Sony should cut the price in last month's sales speculation threads.

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outlawauron on 19 December 2014

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We know Bayonetta 1 was a financial failure. We know Bayonetta 2 cost more than Bayonetta. Phew, that was some investigation.

And LBP has never done huge numbers FW. It just consistently sells for years. LBP1 and 2's FW are not far ahead of LBP3's FW. As for its third week, it's way ahead of LBP1 and only 80k behind LBP2. Hardly a major fail.

Where are your sources? The game looks extremely cheap to me. Can't have costed much. Nintendo never spends huge budgets on games.

I doubt LBP3 will ever reach even half the sales of the first LBP. The game also had very disappointing reviews, that will impact sales.

The source was Kamiya himself (link to translated tweets)

Bayonetta 2 was Platinum's second game on Wii U and have a longer dev cycle than W101. Nintendo also spent considerably more on marketing Bayonetta 2 than any previous Platinum game ever.

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platformmaster918 on 19 December 2014

Samus Aran said:

celador said:

Samus Aran said:

I don't think LBP franchise has a future. Sony struggles with keeping a lot of their long standing franchises alive.

GoW and Uncharted seem the exception, although Uncharted really isn't that old. And GoW: Ascension wasn't that great nor did it sell that well.

Gran Turismo is still doing pretty well.

Sony seem more keen to develop new IPs and not force their devs to continue making games from the same franchises again and again.

Yet they made a new LBP and are making a new Uncharted, Ratchet & Clank (reboot/re-imagining from what I heard?), GoW and Gran Turismo.

And you're right, Gran Turismo has proven to be a stayer. I forgot about it because I hate racing games. :D

LBP3 is made by a new dev so they're obviously not tired of it. Ratchet and Clank is by a third party publisher who loves the IP but regardless Sony can't control what they make they don't own them. If you don't think ND chose to make Uncharted 4 after all the franchises they've left behind in the past and how much freedom Sony always gives them...then I don't know what to say.

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