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[IGN Video] How the PS4 Won a Console Generation
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That sounds like your problem if you didn't like a single PS4 game when a lot of people did, and bought a lot of PS4s. For me, the PS4 success came off the heels of me loving their PS3 output. Since PS1 I was a Playstation owner every gen, but with PS3 and 4 their first party hit some great strides. With PS1 it was the Final Fantasy, MGS, Resident Evil games, PS2 their sequels, 3 and on it was Sony's own output but still getting games from third parties that made me love PS1 and 2. I think the Playstation success story started with third party and second party support and wound up with maintaining a lot of those relationships while growing their first party. That and they always do well in Europe, the shocking part isn't when Sony succeeds with a home console, its when they falter.
Sony won because of exclusive games, it's as simple as that. Yes, we can point things like the price and DRM controversy's at Xbox launch but the lack of big blockbusters was Xbox downfall. Look at the PS3. It was more expensive, weaker and it had tons of controversy in it's life cycle however it still ended up beating the 360 due to the stellar first party effort towards the end of the gen.
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It happened 3 times already though, and the 4th didn't happen because it was Sony's own fuck ups that caused them to lag behind.
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Must have been a lot of sleeping going on these past 26 years.
They won because Xbox dropped the ball so hard at the reveal event they were never able to fully recover from despite the hard efforts of Phil.
Bloodborne, Horizon Zero Dawn, Spider-Man, God Of War, The Last Of Us 2, Wipeout Omega Collection are all among my favorite games of the generation.
And I liked Uncharted 4 & LL, The Last Guardian, Shadow Of The Colossus, Ratchet & Clank, Infamous Second Son, and Until Dawn as well.
And I haven't yet gotten around to try Ghost Of Tsushima, Days Gone and Detroit: Become Human.
So definitely, the exclusives were the main reason for me to get the Ps4 and the main reason to come back to regularly.
Also, I got a PSVR and got into Beat Saber, which has become probably my most played game of the past 2 years. Even though I moved on to the Oculus Quest in order to play custom tracks.
And I liked Uncharted 4 & LL, The Last Guardian, Shadow Of The Colossus, Ratchet & Clank, Infamous Second Son, and Until Dawn as well.
And I haven't yet gotten around to try Ghost Of Tsushima, Days Gone and Detroit: Become Human.
So definitely, the exclusives were the main reason for me to get the Ps4 and the main reason to come back to regularly.
Also, I got a PSVR and got into Beat Saber, which has become probably my most played game of the past 2 years. Even though I moved on to the Oculus Quest in order to play custom tracks.
It's a combination of things as always. At the end of the PlayStation 3 we were still getting hits like tlou, gt6, and more. Sony from the start also had a strong vision and a plan that was well executed throughout the gen. Their competitors messing up helped as well but Sony deserves a lot of credit for what they did.
Smart third party deals for Call of Duty, Destiny, etc and better performing and cheaper console ensured the PlayStation 4 was the default multiplatform device too.
Once their huge exclusives started rolling out momentum just kept building and building all the way into the PS5 as well.
If Sony did luck their way into the best selling home consoles of all time then their competitors must be utterly incompetent for most of that time.
Smart third party deals for Call of Duty, Destiny, etc and better performing and cheaper console ensured the PlayStation 4 was the default multiplatform device too.
Once their huge exclusives started rolling out momentum just kept building and building all the way into the PS5 as well.
If Sony did luck their way into the best selling home consoles of all time then their competitors must be utterly incompetent for most of that time.
This is a good video.
I forgot how sony ditched events for some time now. I wonder if they will walk back on this once the pandemic is over.
I forgot how sony ditched events for some time now. I wonder if they will walk back on this once the pandemic is over.
Yeah it's almost as cliche as the old "Sony first party games are all the same" crap that some people churn out.
I wish the Remote Play of PS4 stuff on Vita wasn't ruined by Sony's baffling refusal to let people remap buttons, even going as far as to ignore the OS button remapping when connecting with a Vita.
R2 on the back touch pad makes it completely useless for pretty much every FPS game. They should have just let you swap L1/R1 with L2/R2, that's all it would take.
R2 on the back touch pad makes it completely useless for pretty much every FPS game. They should have just let you swap L1/R1 with L2/R2, that's all it would take.
"It's your fault for disagreeing with the circlejerk and pop culture!!!1 Sony can't do anything wrong!! REEEEE!!!!1"
The Switch is technically a current-gen platform akin to the PS5/Xbox Series, so that's understandable.
And while the Switch has done well, it's still a ways off from passing the PS4.
I'm really interested to see how the PS5 does long term. Microsoft and Nintendo seem to be in a far better position than they were in 2013. PS4 was a fine system but I can't help but feel that a decent chunk of the success came because of how unappealing the competition was. Oh and Sony absolutely needed the PS4 to succeed. They couldn't handle another failure like the PS3.
The early sales(2013 to 2015) the ps4 got a lot of momentum because of the competition failures, but after 2016 it was more about their own sucess with their games that anything else and for what we know, the ps5 will keep carrying with that momentum
You're wilding. I wasn't trying to come off nearly as confrontational as your response.
The gen was long decided in 2016.
There was never a gen where the console comfortably outselling it's similar gen competition in the beginning didn't end up selling the most in the end.