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Sony's home consoles have always sold really well, 3 of their first 4 have exceeded 100m units sold making it 3 of the 4 best selling home consoles of all time (it's roughly PS2 155m, Switch 120m, PS4 similar but slightly less, PS1 105m). Even the PS3 hit about 85m despite its very high price for the first few years, making it the 6th best selling of all time (very similar to the 360's total). For whatever reason it's like Sony has the "main" console for a lot of people, although the last 3 generations the competition has been doing far better overall than the first 2 where they barely existed relative to Sony which is good to see
I bought an Xbox last in the 6th gen era. Ps2, GameCube, then Xbox. Even so I really loved it and all the exclusives. In the 7th gen it was my first buy in 2006..I got turned off by Sony's assumption people should get second jobs to afford ps3s and 360 was cheaper and easier to find anyway, on top of stuff like halo 3 waiting in the wings that I was really hyped for.
That's just par the course for the game industry at large. The amount many games sell on PC relative to the PC userbase is ridiculously small as well.It always surprises me to be reminded how even super popular titles on PlayStation and Xbox sell relative to the size of the platforms. Near the end of the 360 generation, Halo 3 has sold 14.5m against consoles sales of around 80m at the time (18%). It's an exceptional accomplishment if a title sells to 20% (one in five owners), then you look at Nintendo where many first party titles sell 40-50%.
I remember when Nintendo launched the Switch and they sold copies of Breath of the Wild for Switch than actual Switch consoles.
Just WTaF.
Nintendo has being improving their big IPs since decades ago. When you realize their latest Zelda is simply another iteration of their 1986 game and Mario Kard Switch is the latest improvement on their 1992 game. Each games they are polishing and improving the formula. What's difficult is obviously to find the right formula at the design phase, but they can still improve it later or ditch what doesn't work (for instance many of Zelda 2 systems).
The number of PCs used for gaming is vastly outnumbered by the number of PCs used in an office, so that's not surprising.
Even in the case of users who use PCs for gaming it's clearly a large disparity for many games on steam. Like I said it's not something I think is somehow bad. That's how every platform works outside of nintendo. The types of games people play are too different to have a crossover ratio where so many people who owns a machine for gaming will play the same game.
It always surprises me to be reminded how even super popular titles on PlayStation and Xbox sell relative to the size of the platforms. Near the end of the 360 generation, Halo 3 has sold 14.5m against consoles sales of around 80m at the time (18%). It's an exceptional accomplishment if a title sells to 20% (one in five owners), then you look at Nintendo where many first party titles sell 40-50%.
I remember when Nintendo launched the Switch and they sold copies of Breath of the Wild for Switch than actual Switch consoles.
Just WTaF.
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