Thats not the case now. It was then. You get like one or two exclusives per year now, and sony's exclusives we have to admit target much of the same audience. They make story driven cinematic singleplayer games. The audience overlaps. Consoles now share nearly all of their games, its not like how it was in the 90's.
Every sale chart is filled 90 or 100% with third party games now. People buy a console to play Fifa, Madden, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed. Thats the bulk of the audience. Thats not to say exclusives are worthless, they're not. But i do not stand by the idea that they're the ones selling consoles and i dont agree with their overblown importance we give them on forums
This is wrong and that has been shown time and time again. The Switch is pretty much selling on the back of exclusives alone.
And it doesn't matter if a single exclusive game only sells to 10% of the userbase as there are several.
Gran Turismo appeals to a different audience than Ratchet and Clank or God of War or Bloodborne or Spider-Man or TLoU or Dreams or Persona 5. That's why it's important to have a broad variety of high quality exclusives. You want to appeal to as many people as possible.
I wish Defcon had a PS4 version. That game is meant to be played on a big screen.yep
Each bomb might only destroy one city, but overall Europe is fucked.
Doesn't matter. Electronics are supposed to get cheaper in real dollars and with inflation factored in.399 in 2013 is 475 in 2020.so 499 in 2020 is basically same as 399 in 2013.there is a thing called inflation and present / future value of the money.
Every generation American media has to do this .don't know why.
I can't wait to Read their next article after 1 year ps5 has launched." Ps5 broke sale records but don't read too much into it" haha
Like clock work.
Good luck.599 is not the death sentence you think it is.
That price is not have the same pain point it was in 2006.
Well, we still have a long year until arrival. There is plenty of time for The Verge to deliver.399 in 2013 is 475 in 2020.so 499 in 2020 is basically same as 399 in 2013.there is a thing called inflation and present / future value of the money.
Every generation American media has to do this .don't know why.
I can't wait to Read their next article after 1 year ps5 has launched." Ps5 broke sale records but don't read too much into it" haha
Like clock work.
Doesn't matter. Electronics are supposed to get cheaper in real dollars and with inflation factored in.
Plus it's psychological.
Which electronics have gotten cheaper ? Every thing has gone up in price. Phones were 400 dollars few years ago and now they r 1000 dollars.tabs ,laptops etc..all have gone up in price over the years . I think u live in another dimension or something if around u electronics have gone down in price over the yearsDoesn't matter. Electronics are supposed to get cheaper in real dollars and with inflation factored in.
Plus it's psychological.
PS1: 102.49 million
PS2: 155 million
PS3: 87.4 million
PS4: 96.8 million and counting
Nobody else in the game has this level of consistency. Sony fucked up hard with the PS3 at launch, and yet still managed to bounce back and outsell the 360 by the end of the generation. Nobody's catching them next gen, at least as far as units sold are concerned. All of these articles suggesting doom and gloom for PlayStation based on literally nothing are ridiculous.
Could well be. 96.8 million was just the last official figure I could find, from March 31st this year.
Wouldn't Sony announce this milestone if this happened?
haha, God of War ALONE has made my ps5 purchased guaranteed. But hey SONY is doomed!!!
So it's probably around 99 million by now, the last few months have been relatively slow.Could well be. 96.8 million was just the last official figure I could find, from March 31st this year.
The article would have been much more interesting if he tried for 2 pages to argue for this viewpoint.It'll be dead on arrival if they don't release it with Puppeteer 2.
Yeah $800 console is insane. Either company charging $800 dollars is too insane to even entertain tho. I think most here would agree with that.Don't think most people are reading the link, the article's big premise is "catering to hardcore games = charging $800". It's more of a response to that Pachter prediction than the WSJ article too.
I don't think that predicting an $800 launch as DOA is really that crazy.
Exactly.Well that's a strawman, why would anyone even discuss an $800 console? Everyone with an ounce of sense can tell that would be a stupid idea and not even worth entertaining the thought.
If that's really the premise of the article then it's even more stupid than I thought, and yes I didn't read the article, based off the author's already stupid title.
Every generation American media has to do this .don't know why.
This is page 16, people are discussing it.Why even bother making a thread about this?
The writer of the article is either incredibly uninformed, or just trying to generate clicks. Either way, it's not worth discussing.
The American market seems to be the only major region that any of the big 3 can win.
You haven't read the italian one, they're pushing this bullshit of article like if itnwas written by jesus and omitting part of it in their "transcription".
PS1: 102.49 million
PS2: 155 million
PS3: 87.4 million
PS4: 96.8 million and counting
Nobody else in the game has this level of consistency. Sony fucked up hard with the PS3 at launch, and yet still managed to bounce back and outsell the 360 by the end of the generation. Nobody's catching them next gen, at least as far as units sold are concerned. All of these articles suggesting doom and gloom for PlayStation based on literally nothing are ridiculous.
Do you work for Xbox by any chance? You clearly don't understand why Sony and Nintendo are absolutely hammering Microsoft.
PS1: 102.49 million
PS2: 155 million
PS3: 87.4 million
PS4: 96.8 million and counting
Nobody else in the game has this level of consistency. Sony fucked up hard with the PS3 at launch, and yet still managed to bounce back and outsell the 360 by the end of the generation. Nobody's catching them next gen, at least as far as units sold are concerned. All of these articles suggesting doom and gloom for PlayStation based on literally nothing are ridiculous.
Exactly this. Sony has that consistency which didn't exsist before them in the industry. If we get a Nintendo and microsoft chart you will see how different and weird it will look compared to that of Playstation. If we add the years they got released it in you will even see more consistency in Sony then in any other hardware company.
Nah. $499.99 probably.
This has to be a new meme or something.So the only factual metric we have if a flawed argument? And instead i should take peoples words on it that exclusives make or break a console just because they're very adamant about it?
Call of Duty sells 30 million units. Each year. Fifa probably the same. Battlefield maybe 20 million. Other than Spiderman, God of War and Uncharted theres no exclusive that sells in relevant manner.
If you look at all the games that came out so far in 2019. Devil May Cry, Division 2, Resident Evil, Sekiro, Far Cry, Anthem, and will come out, Wolfenstein, Control, and so on. Thats why people buy a console. To play the hundreds of games that come out for it, not less than 10 worthwhile games in a whole fucking generation. Thats some serious brand loyalty to actually think a handful of games from Sony weight so much that people flock in the hundred of millions to buy one.
PS4 had literally nothing for more than two years and was selling like crazy and outmatching xbox more than 2 to 1. Why? There were no exclusives worth playing. Because of this insane brand loyalty and corporate reverence Sony enjoys and because microsoft botched the reveal and was a console with poorer performance