Topic: Going Mobile: A Glance at the DeNA Partnership, the NX, and the Future

[NWR_insanolord]

You're crazy if you think the PS4 surpasses the Wii, and downright insane if you think it gets anywhere even close to the DS. There's definitely a market for consoles, but mobile has eaten into the demographics that got Wii and DS where they were.

really so who was buying Ps2 consoles? That sold better than Wii.

The PS2 sold a lot to the casual market as well, and especially early on as a DVD player. The market is different now, that's kind of the point.

[ShyGuy]

For some reason I don't feel interested in speculation on this stuff, so I'll just be waiting for more information.

A Pichu slap of reason!

[marvel_moviefan_2012]

how do you know PS4 won't double as a casual friendly console since it does everything people want in terms of multimedia stuff too? It has Facebook integration built in there is nothing more casual right now than FB.

[Luigi Dude]

how do you know PS4 won't double as a casual friendly console since it does everything people want in terms of multimedia stuff too? It has Facebook integration built in there is nothing more casual right now than FB.

Casuals aren't going to buy a $400 videogame system to do things they can already do on their PC or smartphones.  Sony would have to create a Wii Sports type casual phenomenon to make these people even think about buying the PS4 and Sony has shown no interest in doing that.

[marvel_moviefan_2012]

how do you know PS4 won't double as a casual friendly console since it does everything people want in terms of multimedia stuff too? It has Facebook integration built in there is nothing more casual right now than FB.

Casuals aren't going to buy a $400 videogame system to do things they can already do on their PC or smartphones.  Sony would have to create a Wii Sports type casual phenomenon to make these people even think about buying the PS4 and Sony has shown no interest in doing that.

Sure they will, they are doing it in droves. Every sales story says the Ps4 is selling faster than Ps2 do you really think all of that is hard core gamers? The flaw in this argument is lumping all people who aren't hard core into one "casual" umbrella which is erroneous there are a lot of Madden/CoD and Wrestling only "gamers" who will buy the damn thing too. You can say Ps4 won't sell as well as Ps2 all you want while in the real world it ALREADY IS doing just that.

[Wah]

PS4 no kid friendly like Nintendo..

[Luigi Dude]

Sure they will, they are doing it in droves. Every sales story says the Ps4 is selling faster than Ps2 do you really think all of that is hard core gamers? The flaw in this argument is lumping all people who aren't hard core into one "casual" umbrella which is erroneous there are a lot of Madden/CoD and Wrestling only "gamers" who will buy the damn thing too. You can say Ps4 won't sell as well as Ps2 all you want while in the real world it ALREADY IS doing just that.

That's not true anymore.



Yes it launched stronger but that's thanks to the huge demand for new next gen consoles since the previous one dragged on so long.  The hardcore make launches successful while the casuals are what drive long term sales.  The fact PS4 sales are slowing down around the time the PS2 took off shows it's not appealing to families and casuals like the PS2 did.

[Soren]

But Facebook!!

[marvel_moviefan_2012]

Sure they will, they are doing it in droves. Every sales story says the Ps4 is selling faster than Ps2 do you really think all of that is hard core gamers? The flaw in this argument is lumping all people who aren't hard core into one "casual" umbrella which is erroneous there are a lot of Madden/CoD and Wrestling only "gamers" who will buy the damn thing too. You can say Ps4 won't sell as well as Ps2 all you want while in the real world it ALREADY IS doing just that.

That's not true anymore.



Yes it launched stronger but that's thanks to the huge demand for new next gen consoles since the previous one dragged on so long.  The hardcore make launches successful while the casuals are what drive long term sales.  The fact PS4 sales are slowing down around the time the PS2 took off shows it's not appealing to families and casuals like the PS2 did.

what you have one month where it dipped slightly and suddenly that is a trend? The PS4 is proving that there is still a market for home consoles.