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Slimebeast on 16 September 2016
Cloudman said:
What, did they have low expectations or something?

Yeah, just have low expectations and you can always publish these tipes of announcements.

Such meaningless PR talk.

Of crouse I believe the PS4 Pro will be an enormous success despite the initial negativism (remember that? When The PS4 Neo was first rumoured many Sony fans here were protesting and claiming it would fragment the player base. It's all forgetten now, which I'm very happy for), but it's not due to this sales report.



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Goodnightmoon on 16 September 2016

I guess is normal they are surprised, honestly it looked like they didn't even know why they made the pro when they were showing it and looked like 4k tv owners were the only real target here, and those are a huge minority, so it could be surprising for someone, however I thought brand power alone would be reflected in pre-orders as it happened. What happens after that is yet to be seen though.



Cloudman on 16 September 2016
twintail said:
Cloudman said:

Well, from the comments "pretty good" and "pleasantly surprised" seemed to suggest pre-orders are better than expected, which can imply either they are high and exceeded them, or they are low and are well.... better than expected. From the wording used, it sounds like 2nd one.

If they expected 500k (a very good number and I am not saying it is this) and have pre-orders at 750k, they can still be 'pleasant surprised'.

You are trying to draw blood from a stone by assuming they had low expectations. All we know for sure is that they had internal figures on what they assumed they would get, and currently they are doing better than that. Which is only a positive thing.

Well, it's just how I interpretted the comments being made.

 

 

Imaginedvl said:
Cloudman said:

I'm kinda surprised they said anything at all. I wouldn't expect a comment unless the numbers were excellent.

Well, he was being asked about :) That's the best anwser, better than not responding hehe

Yeah, that is likely tbe best answer they could give.

 

 

Slimebeast said:
Cloudman said:
What, did they have low expectations or something?

Yeah, just have low expectations and you can always publish these tipes of announcements.

Such meaningless PR talk.

Of crouse I believe the PS4 Pro will be an enormous success despite the initial negativism (remember that? When The PS4 Neo was first rumoured many Sony fans here were protesting and claiming it would fragment the player base. It's all forgetten now, which I'm very happy for), but it's not due to this sales report.

That's kind of how I feel with the comments that were made.

Despite my interpretations from these comments, I think the Pro will be successful. It looks like sales could just carry from the Pro, since its price is the same as how the PS4 started, kind of like the New 3DS.



 

              

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HokageTenshi on 16 September 2016
LurkerJ said:

Echoing what I said in another lockedd thread, by the time the Scorpio releases, the Pro will be even cheaper, and a year later, the Pro 2 will replace the original Pro as the 399$ console.

SONY has the edge this generation and they will NOT benefit from resetting the generation cycle to zero by releasing the PS5, so they will stretch it as long as they can, it's almost too convenient that MS is following suit willingly. (and Nintendo is paving their own separate lane at this point).

It's pretty clear where console manufacturers are heading, how the market responds remains to be seen though.

Sony already said that PS4Pro will be the only mid-gen upgraded PS4 system



REDZONE on 16 September 2016
Azzanation said:
Radek said:

Amazing news, hopefully more and more people  do a research and get 3 times more powerful console instead of a 1.4 Tflop Xbox One S for only 50$-100$ less.

900p to 4K upscaling is not even remotely the same as 1500p-1800p to 4K upscaling.

If they want Xbox they should get PS4 Pro now and Scorpio next year, Xbox One S is pointless.

But if they want to watch there 4k phyiscal disks they will save hundreds on the X1S.

Do you mean like how they could've saved hundreds by buying a PS3 instead of a 360 to watch blurays?Instead they bought the 360s anyway because they wanted to play games?

 

 

Ot

   Well it's obviously doing better they expected.



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aLkaLiNE on 16 September 2016
Cloudman said:
Imaginedvl said:

It sounds like the second one but this very normal. Same goes with Xbox One S :)
Why on earth would a Sony executive say something different lol.

I'm kinda surprised they said anything at all. I wouldn't expect a comment unless the numbers were excellent.

I don't think businesses look at prospective products with "high" or "low" expectations. They simply have a number that they come up with through market analysis and then make a forecast. Sounds like pre orders are exceeding their forecast, there's nothing in the statement that suggests low expectations so I don't know how you could've perceived that.



Fei-Hung on 16 September 2016
REDZONE said:
Azzanation said:

But if they want to watch there 4k phyiscal disks they will save hundreds on the X1S.

Do you mean like how they could've saved hundreds by buying a PS3 instead of a 360 to watch blurays?Instead they bought the 360s anyway because they wanted to play games?

 

 

Ot

   Well it's obviously doing better they expected.

No, he meant save hundreds by buying the Pro as it will support VR :p

 

OT considering the backlash they've had and people like KFG acting a fool, I'm sure they are surprised. It's number 2 on Amazon US, number 12 on Amazon UK, 3 in germany and 20 in France.

 

Japan is the only place where it's not in the top 20, but the slim is 3rd & 4th.



exclusive_console on 16 September 2016

Sony played it safe with the upgrade and the price. For 100$ more I think the  PS4pro is justifiable and a good purchase. A standard PS4 owner too should not feel missed out or angry due to PS4Pro