Are you really going to continue with your non-sense? Who said Microsoft price was justified or not? The thread is about WHY the Play Station Four took the market not about how you think Microsoft should have priced their hardware.

They learned from their mistakes and chose to hear the voice of developers, both Japanese and Western, on what they wanted in the PS4.

The simple answer is that they made a strong, affordable, aesthetically pleasing console, that did things which people understood.

well i dont buy anything sony for past decade due to personal reasons. but they made a powerful-ish SYSTEM and nintendo who used to dominate became nokia and let sony have it by giving games what they THINK they want. not what they actually want!!!

So good job for sony. i think nintendo will never recover if the switch doesn't hit 50mil. which i think it will hit 20 only this 5 year cycle.

So i think nintendo dropping the ball and sony sticking to the old basic formula of power and same controllers since 90s worked.

I feel the same way, people make it sound like PS3 was a disaster from start to finish ,when in fact it was pretty much resolved by the t first slim edition onwards.

Don't try to fix it ,we need to start using the word as much as we can and context be damned , we could be part in shaping 2017's word of the year Concurrention.

I see it now we give you 2017 word of the year  Concurrention  it means to  concur concurrently or in laymans term to reach agreement  at the same time.

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To the thread premise: because the "disaster" of PS3 still resulted in outselling Xbox for the generation, despite 1 year delay.
That is just how much stronger the PS brand is on a worldwide basis, so the outcome of this gen is ABSOLUTELY NO SURPRISE.

When it comes to home consoles Playstation has always been a very popular brand, and they may have done a lot of mistakes with the PS3 but they learned from those mistakes and made a lot of efforts in gaining consumer trust that generation which keept going into the PS4 gen.

Not to mention ive always belived (and still do) that PS getting big exclusives of both western and japanese titles along with making tons of new IPs every gen of all sorts of genres really helps them have a lot of diversity in their game lineup, that translates into a lot of sales world wide since the platform ends up appealing to all sorts of people.