PS4 is a poor mans console

Well its cheap compared to the beast of a pc I've got just the graphics card cost £290. So in comparison, ps4 is not that expensive. You can get a PC that ****s all over ps4's even at the 4-500 quid range. Though if you're a true gaming enthusiast, PC wont let you down if you get the right hardware.

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I thought we were comparing it to the Xbox

#oops #mymistakes #sorryfornotsorry #lota #bodna

Xbox is *******s too... lol jk both consoles are decent, but I think they should have had better hardware, and the ability to customize graphics to your preference, so you can play at for high frames per second or better quality. Then they wouldnt be so bad.

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Plug the PC into the, I assume, TV then...
Console won't have a bigger screen then

PS4's sales pace means you're wrong OP. It reached 2 million sales in the UK faster than the best selling home console of all time - PlayStation 2.

It currently sits at 22.3 million units sold worldwide and counting.

Sony must be doing something right.

Sales don't necessarily mean much. With enough marketing I could take a turd, polish it a bit, and have a good marketing campaign and it will sell well. This is what both companies did.
If you do well enough you don't even have to polish it, that's Ubisoft.

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But the PS4 isn't a turd. It's actually a pretty good product.

They're both equally bad/good
Point still stands though, it's an industry where you can produce total crap and have it still sell well, and I think the reason PS4 has sold better isn't that it's the better platform, it's that it didn't have such a negative rep from the off, M$ had too many blunders and $ony must monopolised on them.
At the end of the day, the relative sales rely on only two things: marketing and exclusives.

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Why are you turning this into a console wars debate?
OP is making hyperbolic claims about the PS4 and I'm saying that 22 million sales says he is wrong.
I seriously doubt millions of consumers are going buy a console that lacks functionality, has no games and is generally crap (as the OP suggests). Thanks to the web and social media, people tend to be a lot more informed these days. If something is sh1t then it will be reflected in sales. A terrible product won't sell in the millions.

You make it sound like the PS4 is some grand deception that Sony has conjured up and people are blindly buying into it with very little thought.

I'm turning it into a console wars debate?
I'm merely stating the facts. Microsoft cocked up massively early on and took forever to make amends, but otherwise it's the same as last gen.

And in the culture our industry is in now absolute **** will sell in huge numbers because so many people preorder and do many people but on day one rather than waiting for confirmation the game isn't tripe.

Not that it is bad, but how many millions of units did GTA V have in preorders? How many million more units on day one? Why? Not because people knew it would be good, but because of the hype. You see it every year with new phones, you see it with the consoles. Neither it outstanding, but what we're their global day one and preorder sales? How many units did Unity sell? It didn't even work properly and still doesn't 6 months on!

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You're making a lot of irrelevant comparisions here. Games cost a tenth of what a console costs so people will be more likely to part with their cash. Annualized franchises like COD, FIFA and AC exploit brand loyalty. Phones are upgraded every year - consoles aren't.

PS4 will get slaughtered at Christmas...XBox has all the exclusives, Tomb Raider, Halo 5 and the new Forza.

PS4 will get slaughtered at Christmas...XBox has all the exclusives, Tomb Raider, Halo 5 and the new Forza.

Tomb Raider is just a timed exclusive, it will also be coming to PS4. It won't be in the same league as Uncharted 4 anyway.

Halo 5, well PS has Killzone.

Forza? PS has Gran Turismo. Not to mention Project Cars is on both consoles and bends both games over and gives them a good spanking,

Killzone =/= Halo.

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You do realise that exact same argument applies to the Xbone as well? You still haven't quite explained what the difference between 8th gen launch and 7th gen launch is that means that the higher sales prove a better console. You have thus far failed to challenge the proposition that a shaky pre launch for M$ is one of the biggest factors involved; even when M$ "fixed" the "issues" people kept speaking of these no longer truths as facts. How long after the always online and the whole game sharing thing were scrapped were people still going on about it? Also that the xbone was more expensive at launch.

How much flack did M$ get for going for a slightly different route and going for a slightly more family oriented package? Personally, I think that was not a bad decision, particularly if they maintain it into the 9th gen. Slight compromise in performance (but nothing compared to the massive compromise of it being a console) to slightly widen your target audience. There is a lot of gimmicky **** with the xbone, but there is with the PS4 too.

gets a little rambly from here.

And neither represents great value for money, they were obsolete when launched, even for the price point and they still are. Let's consider speculation of a short dev cycle to be true and they are 5 year consoles, what does this leave us, let's take it from launch too. £400 to buy it, a further couple of hundred for the subscriptions, £10-£20 more expensive games vs PC, let's say 5 a year, I wouldn't say that's unreasonable, so £50-100 a year for that, all in all you have a budget in excess of £1k to build a computer to last 5 years and smash the consoles while doing it, not difficult, even without going second hand. And that assumes no hardware failures.

Briefly, on launch, the PS4 represented the best compute performance per dollar, within 5 months something three quarters the price per GFLOP took its place, and since then the price has halved again. Now that mobile and desktop chip architectures are aligned mobile devices will be able to compete with the consoles before the end of the dev cycle. Tablet I have running on a 3 year old architecture has a quarter of the power of an Xbone, the successor chip, running a newer architecture, about 40% of the power of an Xbone with just 10W, fanless, the chip next year, probably a new architecture again, if not it will be the next year, the 2017 chip will probably be roughly on par with the Xbone. This isn't really an issue if we continue this 5 year dev cycle assumption, it will be like last time, when mobile chips are comparable the 9th gen comes along, but if we go back to the standard 7 or 8 year cycle, well...