I can't understand how people think that marketing alone is responsible for console success. I'm sure those who have actually not tried gaming on hardware can seriously end up with such weird notion relating to what articles stir up. But that audacity!

Except that price is no longer an advantage and Watch Dogs and Destiny hype died months and months ago. Strange that PS4 still sells a lot more than the competition, isn't it? I am not sure if you are serious. 

Even that would be a Mr. Burns nose... 15% is not a insignificant amount.

What would you say about the people who were hopping on tier 2 and china?

It's not simple math when thers so many factors involved that could heavily or slightly skew results and we don't know the metrics for those type of things in any accurate sense. 

And your point that eldued to me thinking a gen was in a short span was in the post after I could have posted about it?

If multiplats mean everything, then why isnt the XB1 selling as well as the PS4...?

And it works both ways I don't see that being a driving factor in th ps4's lead at all honestly. 

He is...

For 2 reasons imo.

1: Though branding isn't everything, a "PlayStation" will in almost every case sell better worldwide than an equally priced and equally strong "Xbox".

2: PS4 was cheaper AND stronger than XB1 at launch and the general perception among gamers is that multiplats perform far better on PS4. Among the mainstream customers and soccer moms price is more important (they rarely know anything about specs) and that's why price reduced XB1s fly of the shelves on black friday and in the holidays.

I've been keeping a reasonably close eye on the console but nothing has spoken to me yet. I don't think Bloodborne's for me and the handful of other games that have caught my attention (The Last of Us, Rayman Legends, Trine 2, Terraria, Child of Light, The Walking Dead) are all available elsewhere.

Anyway, while I think Sony had much better ideas for PS4 at launch than XO did, I think the bulk of what has got them this far is branding and marketing. In terms of software, thus far I don't think their lineup's been anything special. It certainly hasn't been very unique.

You speak as if you know domination is a good thing, for Xbox and Nintendo fans I will again disagree and tell you it's not, it never makes them "better", it doesn't make them the best, it does however make them knwon for being mediocre when we look at sales and brand image, them staying in 2nd-3rd place is never good, you are sadly mistaken in believing 2nd-3rd place is good for them, that's a plain and simple view from one who exhibits a defeatist mentality, you should know by now that hardly many want second or third place, mostly everyone would want to be on top if they could, no one neters a race with a desire to become 2nd or 3rd, only those who think they are already defeated before the race evena began would qualify for that.

Let me just point out that while you think getting womped by the PS2 made the 360 a better system, what about the failure rates, what about having less hardware, what about the fact that it;s not getting supported as much, what about the fact PS3 has gained it;s edge over it, in the end Sony didn't make the 360 better, oh sure it got multiplats but where are those currently as we talk?, oh they're on Sony's system, that means completely zip to XB1 and 360, Sony dominating currently isn't making either system "better", it just means only one system is being better than the rest even though two of them shot themselves in the foot and now can't catch up but no one wants to admit that because that would make the "sony does everything better by default so said jesus christ" a fallacy.

I honestly don't care to quibble with people who think one party dominating the rest is a good thing, I swear one of these days I can't wait until some other country comes into such power to break everyone else's backs and then you'll see how that works out because dominating everyone is never good, just look at nvidia vs AMD, not good, never good.

I'm done with this, I don't see a point in carrying on in the thread after people fail to notice domination is never a good thing, those who only agree with domination are those who stand on the winning team, the one who's got everyone else under the heel of their boot and it's disgusting.