I can't believe this happened. I ordered from Amazon and it was shipped right to me. No running, no fighting.
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PlayStation 4 becomes the fastest home console to reach 100 million unit sell in
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I can't believe this happened. I ordered from Amazon and it was shipped right to me. No running, no fighting.
MLB the show, Days gone, and a bunch of strong Third party games on top of sales during days of play.
The only explanation I have is that those folks are impulse buyers who didn't expect the console to sell out that fast. Pre-orders have been also rather limited if I remember correctly. Still can't believe that's Germany out of all places. People are usually pretty ordinary here.
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But those online preorders eventually ran out, and retailers keep part of the stock for instore purchase only. Big demand in the EU pushed early buyers to run to get the console on day1.
I think for PS5 launch there will be different systems, better lines and guaranteed console for people who show up early.
Fuck me hadn't seen that one before. Can't wait for PS5 videos on launch day.
This is what happens when we get hardware numbers, and not MAUs :P
Not that you mention it, I think PS3 really does take the edge in exclusives. Even though Bloodborne and GoW are in my top5 of all time.
They should play the lottery! They'd be winning jackpots everywhere then they could finally buy Take-Two and Disney!
Both PS2 and PS3 are better in my book because of better lineups. I really don't like the long development-cycles and shift towards GaaS in this gen. This gen also lacks more exciting new IPs. But that's a general problem of this gen and not a PS4-problem. PS4 still is far and away the best console this gen. I played 90% on PS4 compared to Switch and Xbox One which I both rarely use.
Console ownership is not a zero sum economy, more people exist now than decades ago, and gaming (read: AAA) is targeting the mainstream more than ever.
They're gaining more mainstream gamers at the expense of others, but much like mobile gaming, that's where the money is. At least there's still PC gaming to cater to a wider variety of tastes, unless Epic/Oculus manages to screw that over somehow.
They're gaining more mainstream gamers at the expense of others, but much like mobile gaming, that's where the money is. At least there's still PC gaming to cater to a wider variety of tastes, unless Epic/Oculus manages to screw that over somehow.
If Aaron Greenberg worked at PlayStation we'd be seeing a, "The first to reach 100 million wins the generation" tweet about now.
Because they aren't/weren't the most popular consoles at the time, which is why it isn't downplaying it because that is an achievement in its own right with what's out there... Did you even read what I said? And if you think console gaming is shrinking, you aren't paying attention.
Last gen "the unpopular console" sold 87 millions. And yes I did which I replied to? you said you're not downplaying only to write what can't be described by anything other than downplaying. Based on what you said the Switch must be a failure and the PS5 and X2 should do insane numbers out of the gate otherwise they're also huge failures which is of course laughable.
Handheld are dead and home consoles are significantly lower and you're trying to argue that consoles are not shrinking?
I didn't say that any console was a failure. I wasn't even speaking of failures at all so you are drawing the wrong conclusions from what I said. Handhelds are not dead, Switch is a handheld. The game is changing, it isn't going away. How are home consoles significantly lower?!?! LOOK AT WHAT THIS THREAD IS ABOUT!~
No the signs were there even in Orland's history of graph manipulation. 1 million sales for sony were in North America, MS came back a couple of days later "with we also sold one million day one, if we count all the ones sold in 13 territories..." Every historical incidence (ps2 vs Dreamcast) he cited to prove that early sales were no indicator showed the exact opposite much like this gen has showed the same correlation of best 1 day sales predict generation winners.
He hewed so hard to the "you can't foretell the future", that he kept up this narrative of too early to tell over 2 years including stories of extrapolating a good holiday for Xbox as the base line and showing how it would overtake PS4 by 2024 in a graph. He had to struggle to maintain the pretence it did not matter.
X1 had a big launch, but not as big as PS4 and that big launch, required some inventive re-interpretation of like for like comparison.
Orland's jernolism now is reduced to placing the 100million "in context" by pointing out the DS did it faster and, hey Netflix has a lot of subscribers... what a bunch of wank by the man.
Who could have foreseen that the early leader would do well, well Orland tried very hard not to.
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You said gaming is growing which is why it makes sense PS4 succeeded. By the same logic Switch (a 2017 console) is only keeping up with the what PS4 did in 2013 so it must be a failure right? gaming got a lot bigger from 2013 to 2017 so Switch must get on with the time.
Switch is hybrid so Nintendo combined their 2 businesses into 1 which is what shrinking means. Xone is down significantly and Sony killed their handheld business. How can you look at that and argue console gaming is not shrinking? we went from half a billion consoles last gen to half that now.
Wow crazy numbers. Well deserved. Ranks a bit below ps1 and ps2 for me but...those bad boys were on another level entirely for me.
When you have the games, people show up. Who knew? Lol
When you have the games, people show up. Who knew? Lol
Since when did keeping up with the fastest selling console ever mean failure?
You speak of the loss of dedicated handhelds (generally not referred to as consoles) as your reason for console gaming shrinking (mobile gaming is the reason for this, and mobile gaming is not infringing on consoles) meanwhile, the Switch and PS4 are selling in record numbers. Xbox is doing poorly this gen due to lack of exclusives and poor management of the launch, but it's still doing better than the worst of last gen (Wii U) so overall console sales are higher... which is growth.
And some of their best games are still around the corner to give it its one last hurrah!
congrats to sony! damn shame that, according to a (self-appointed) authority on the gaming industry, their 'for the gamer' approach is exactly what's gonna kill'm next gen...
I don't think any previous console has had a more feeble competitor than the Xbox One, but still, this is a hell of an achievement and 100% deserved.
Orland has been shit for a long time, but my goodness that article. Dude is saltier than the dead Sea . He really fucking hates the PlayStation
Someone should tweet this graph to Orland.
Technically Xbox One has a chance to beat the PS4 in 2024.
Fucking lol.
Well that's just plain wrong. The PS4 had supply issues in the US and a bunch of other countries. The US alone had a supply issue for more than 1 year. Hell, I think the PS4 had supply issues during the holiday maybe 1 or 2 years ago because they were selling out constantly.
Then the Media Create threads will be a buffet to you.
You're welcome.
You won't see me in one of those videos because I'll have already pre-ordered my console rather than running like some commoner.
#dead
Well deserved. Talent always wins ;)
That gif, I'm saving it lol.
Good on Sony. Great hardware, great software.
Wonder if it will eventually surpass the ps2 🤔