Just goes to show what we know, eh? We predicted that the PlayStation 4 would be the “worst” selling console in November 2017, drowned out by the Nintendo Switch and the Xbox One X launch. In actual fact, it enjoyed its best month in the United States ever, topping even November 2013, when the console released. To be fair, the two other platforms contributed to a booming month for the industry, pushing it up a whopping 30 per cent year-over-year.
It was an absolutely killer month for software as well, with Call of Duty: WWII helping drive game sales above $1.1 billion in total. And Sledgehammer Games’ anticipated historical shooter generated more “launch month consumer spending than any Call of Duty debut since the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II in November 2012”. Pair this with the kind of sales figures we’re seeing in Europe, and it’s safe to say that CoD is back with a bang.
In fact, so well did WWII do that it’s already the best-selling game of 2017 in the US, and it’s also outsold everything from the past 12 months. Frankly it’s a staggering achievement, and demonstrates the strength of Activision’s brand. Elsewhere, the controversial Star Wars Battlefront II still managed to finish second in the sales charts despite consumer backlash, while Assassin’s Creed Origins, NBA 2K18, and Madden NFL 18 all rounded out the top five. We’ve included all of the software sales charts below.
NPD Software Top 20: November 2017
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Star Wars Battlefront II
- Assassin’s Creed Origins
- NBA 2K18
- Madden NFL 18
- Super Mario Odyssey*
- FIFA 18
- Need for Speed: Payback
- Destiny 2**
- Pokémon: Ultra Sun*
- Pokémon: Ultra Moon*
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War
- Grand Theft Auto V
- The Sims 4
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
- Mario Kart 8*
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus*
- South Park: The Fractured But Whole
- WWE 2K18
- Just Dance 2018
NPD PS4 Software Top 10: November 2017
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Star Wars Battlefront II
- Assassin’s Creed Origins
- NBA 2K18
- Madden NFL 18
- FIFA 18
- Need for Speed: Payback
- Destiny 2
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus*
NPD Best Selling Games of 2017 So Far
- Call of Duty: WWII
- Destiny 2**
- NBA 2K18
- Madden NFL 18
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild*
- Grand Theft Auto V
- For Honor
- Injustice 2
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
* No digital sales
** No Battle.net sales
[source venturebeat.com]
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Well deserved. Sony made great choices with the PS4 this gen and it's still paying off.
Call of Duty: WWII is crazy. It barely gets any traction on this site, yet is an absolute steam train success. Just goes to show, once again, that we are in the bubble.
Insane for a console that's 4 years old. It just refuses to stop.
Kinda depressing seeing the (nearly) universally praised Horizon Zero Dawn, out since what, February? Getting outsold for the year by NBA and Madden and For Honor? Not to mention a game released 4 years ago in GTAV. And the best selling game of the year has only been out for 6 weeks?! It blows my mind. Yes, we are in a bubble here.
@Th3solution Not depressing at all, that's a really great result for Horizon. Look at the company it's keeping!
All hail the King 👑!
Ps4 train just refused to stop
@Th3solution Sport game always this big from the ps1 era, and for honor is multiplatform game that's available on ps4, xb1, and pc. I think it's amazing that exclusive games that's only available on 1 platform can be in the npd best selling 2017 games. For a new ip, horizon did great.
@get2sammyb @wiiware True. Considering that besides Zelda, the other year’s best sellers are multi platform, I suppose it’s done well.
Please Xbots, Phil Spincer and all the haters of Sony, don't call us anymore, because the King is too busy leading the market. =P
@Th3solution thats an amazing result for Horizon, its a new IP.
@YummyHappyPills OMG, I completely forgot — Breath of the Wild is on WiiU too. You’re right!
I don't get why CoD sells so well. I wonder how long it'll be before people finally get tired of it. I certainly am.
The discounts were great and PS4 is sitting pretty with a killer 2017 release line-up, absolutely deserved. I would've been surprised if full-priced Switch and OneX somehow outsold PS4.
PSVR is doing pretty damn well too, ensuring that it's here to stay.
Switch bubble burst?
@Derpie1 Not really, lol. It sold 10 million in 2017. It's on track to already surpass the Wii U by the end of the fiscal year. Pretty darn solid for a console that has a relatively small library due to its young age, not to mention the disaster that was the Wii U.
I'm at the point with the NPD where it's 'no numbers, do not care.' Only thing I'll say, PS4 just had easily it's best year ever in terms of the quality of games released and it was quite varied. Couple that with some tremendous Black Friday deals and it's surprising but not surprising. I always believe games should push console sales and given what the PS4 family of systems offers, it deserves the top spot. In actuality, hype is what sells and MS was really pushing the Xbox One X, in fact it had such a great marketing campaign that it seemed to drown out the fact Xbox One had f**k all for exclusives the entire year (even more embarrassingly pathetic than PS4's 2014 exclusive lineup which was inFamous: Second Son and a ton of garbage). December could tell a different story but it's big for Sony to take November, especially with Super Mario Odyssey also being on shelves for a full month and given the way Switch had been selling here previously.
THE BEAST IS TOO FIRE TO HANDLE!!!
@KirbyTheVampire Probably about the same time people get tired of Madden and such. The thing that keeps CoD going year after year is the multiplayer and the huge eSports scene it has. For alot of people it's about the multiplayer aspect. It's something to do with their friends kinda like getting together and shooting hoops at the local park, or getting together and watching their favorite sport team play every weekend.
@Tasuki I suppose. I mainly just don't get why it sells so incredibly well with every installment, but I guess for the more casual people who only buy maybe a couple games a year, it's a worthy investment. It just seems like people would get tired of the same formula year after year, but I guess not.
You'll have to let us know @get2sammyb, if that weirdo who messages you everyday regarding Xbox has anything to add to this...
@JoeBlogs Definitely.
@KirbyTheVampire All these top selling games are like that. FIFA, Madden, NBA, WWE, COD, etc, etc. Wash, Rinse, Repeat. Make a roster update, tweak the presentation, and reload for next year. Call of Duty actually seems to innovate more than the sports games at least. No offense to those that play these annual release games, it’s just amazing that they make such a huge percentage of sales when there are so many gems out there that go unnoticed and unpurchased. I guess the same could be said about music and movies or any media though. I’ll just keep buying my share of the Last Guardians and Gravity Rushs of the world to try to keep them going.
@Th3solution NBA2K does a pretty good job of innovating each year.
@Th3solution WiiU counts as a platform?
@Th3solution Horizon is the only true exclusive on that list. All the others are on at least 2 platforms.
@KingdomHeartsFan i think the years best selling list answerd that for you. Sports games and GTA are the top selling games. I think Horizon is north of 4 Mill units sold which is crazy when there are 70 mill PS4s sold. Most ppl are playing GTA i guess.
@Th3solution I find it great for Horizon its not a multiplayer game its not a multiplatform game and new ip. You cant win against a COD game if they put a turd in a gamecover and call it COD people would still buy it plus sportgames always sell.
@KingdomHeartsFan I know its a massive dissapointment that people buy the standard upgrades every year and leave the great new IP's. And still people have the nerve to call the industry out on making the same stuff over and over. Hello every one you are the making it happen by not buying the great games.
@get2sammyb The beta was a big dissapointment my younger brother asked me why it was so ugly. The maps where bland i never understood why people find it so great? I was done after 4 games maybe. The same goes for BO2 the game who made me think If my PS3 was broken because it looked horrible.
@hi_drnick Making a portion of the game a joke is a innovation by making you pay to progress give me a break.
@KirbyTheVampire The same here.
PlayStation Phwoar. It's irresistible.
@Flaming_Kaiser fair point but I haven't spent an extra cent
@KingdomHeartsFan PS4 has lots of the casual audience by now. A big part of the Wii userbase has moved onto PS4 as reported several times now.
NS install base is still mostly Nintendo fans and early adopters. The mass market audience buys a lot of their systems in November, and the low sales for NS this month show that they're currently not very interested in the system.
@Th3solution I'm just glad people like you exist and give companies a reason to keep making games like Gravity Rush and The Last Guardian.
@AhabSpampurse Haha, he hasn’t said anything for over a month now.
Why dont you list the sales figures for the consoles?
@naruball 👍🏼 I do my part. I keep buying the games I love, to the point that I hardly even have time to play them all. But I try to support the products that I want to keep seeing made.
Of interest, another site had a similar article to this and showed these stats, but also showed the top 10 selling games as far as rolling data for the past 12 months. So basically from Nov ‘16- Nov ‘17, including the very end of 2016. I was surprised to see that not only was WWII the best selling game for the last 12 mon, but COD Infinite Warfare was #6! NBA 2K18 was still #3 and NBA 2K17 was #9! Both franchises’ annual releases are in the top 10 in sales for the past 12 months. Amazing. Otherwise the list is basically the same as this 2017 top 10 list with the exception of instead of HZD, #10 is occupied by FFXV, and the presence of the previous releases for NBA and COD knocks off For Honor and Injustice 2 from the list.
Wow that's super impressive for the ps4. Will probably hit North of 90 million by this time next year which is insane!
@Mahe Low switch sales? It's selling nearly as fast as the ps4 did at launch, not sure how that could be considered low.
@dryrain Because we don't get access to that kind of information, sadly.
@KirbyTheVampire I can see where you're going with people getting bored of the same formula year after year, and I don't like Call Of Duty titles either, but look at other games for systems too...Mario (same thing over and over again), Zelda (same thing) then there's also all the sports franchises, Tony Hawk, Skylanders, Final Fantasy...basically everything is the same thing, even genres are basically the same thing. I always found it funny with the Grand Theft Auto's...every one of them is the same thing, but they still sell extremely well.
Good for Sony. If they keep this up, they can probably come very close or even surpass the Playstation 2's sales over it's lifetime! Does anyone know what the total units sold for either so far?
@MadAussieBloke ha ha ha that's awesome
@Mahe Take off the fan boy glasses. PS4/Xbone had some crazy deals over black friday, while Switch was sold at full price with not much in terms of hardware deals. It's sold 10 million in 9 months, the same as PS4 did. Just admit it's also a success and people like it. God forbid, people have other options. Sony dropped the ball in 2017 from a 1st party perspective (wasting too many resources on VR), so having stuff like BOTW filled that gap perfectly. At least 2018 looks very good for PS4.
I always laugh for when the subject of Nintendo and casuals comes up; they are, and have been, the butt of jokes and ridicule for years, but when it's PS4 and it's massive connundrum of COD-kids, that's perfectly fine. Because Sony, right? >_>
If anything, those "casuals" are playing mainly on mobile. The average person who buys a console only gets 3 or 4 games for it, and that's all. To me, that's pretty sad but w/e. People also instinctively crave whatever they hear is popular (and hard to find). They bought into PS2, Wii, PS4, now Switch.
@get2sammyb honestly I have the game, finished the campaign and I almost don't play it now...only a few rounds of zombies like once every two weeks lol
@Th3solution Yeah, it's a bummer how so many great games go unnoticed by the masses. I think gamers like us are quite a bit more rare than even we tend to think. Most just buy what's popular, and don't look beyond that. Nothing wrong with that, it just sucks for the games that (IMO) are a heck of a lot more interesting than the CODs and the FIFAs of the world.
@JLPick Not all of those are the best examples IMO. Even before Breath of the Wild completely changed the Zelda series, it tended to be at least somewhat different with each game, and although Mario has been a little samey over the Wii and Wii U life-cycles, it's changed quite a bit over the years, especially when you consider all the spin-off titles, but I do see your point. I just think it's probably different for people like us who buy a wide variety of games compared to people who just buy a couple games to play with their friends. Still though, even with the franchises that don't tend to innovate all that much, we still aren't buying them every single year for the most part. It seems strange that people can buy the same thing every year and love it, even if they don't buy many other games, but oh well. To each his own.
Any wanting an xbox one x to boost Microsoft numbers can get a crazy good deal at tesco. Console plus wolfenstein 2, evil within 2, COD WW 2, PUBG and Forza 7 for £469.
@EVIL-C Lol wut Sony did 10 million in 6 months and in it's fourth year.
Nintendo switch biggest attach rates are Wii U games.
BOTW,Mario Kart,Pokken etc etc.
While New IP's suffered where is that game ARMS?
@EVIL-C If anyone sounds like a fanboy it would be you.
'Sony dropped the ball in 2017 from a 1st part perspective.'
Okay then.
Gravity Rush 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Knack 2 & GT Sport.
Highly successful exclusive collections with WipEout & Crash.
Tons of PS2 classics remastered & a bunch of second/third party full/console exclusives including the likes of NiOh, Yakuza 0/Kiwami & Persona 5.
I own a Switch & I'm glad it's doing well, but there's a reason why the PS4 is king of the hill.
It's all about the games.
@Hapuc With a March 3rd, 2017 launch, the data on December 10th, 2017 says that it took the Switch 9 months and 7 days to sell 10 million units.
In contrast, the PS4, launched on November 15th, 2013, took about 8 months and 29 days to sell 10 million units, almost identical. The difference being that Sony had a full holiday sales window while Nintendo hasn’t had that with the Switch yet.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/12/12/the-nintendo-switch-is-selling-exactly-as-fast-as-sonys-ps4/amp/
I suggest you fact check. Sony has ported plenty of PS3 games to PS4. Everyone is is the port business. Also while yes, Zelda began as a Wii U game, it released to the world day 1 on both systems, thus being "new" for everyone, so this argument is flimsy. Oh, it won GOTY too.
@Fight_Teza_Fight
I forgot about GR2. I love the original. Horizon... I'll get when it's cheaper.
Knack 2? No Thanks.
GT would be great for those who love GT and Sim racers. I m not one of them.
I've never liked Crash, even as a kid.
While I love futuristic racers, Wipeout for some reason has always had very floaty controls to me. It's hard to explain, but F-Zero just felt better to me. Fast RMX had the same problem; very floaty controls.
I did get Yakuza Kiwami, but haven't had time to start it. Forgot about it as well, lol.
I've had a PS4 since day 1. Put a 2TB HDD in it to hold all my content. I'm no fan boy. I like PS a lot, but 2017 didn't do much for ME personally.
You said it yourself; games. There's a reason why, in this case, Switch is doing so well; it's all about the games (and it's portable.)
It's far too late for the Xbox one X to make a dent and the reality is that it won't sell huge numbers as it's tied to this gen and most don't care about the extra resolution. Their biggest problem is what do you actually play on it? Switch has the amazing Mario and Zelda games and Xenoblade, Sony has Horizon, Uncharted, Yakuza and Nier amongst others but Xbox? Cuphead? It's great but I have it on my laptop, PS4 really is a phenomenon and long may it continue
@EVIL-C looool wut Nintendo didn't even have a launch title first 3 months were all ports from Wii U no third party support or atleast minimal if you say to me games from Last gen then don't talk about it.
And yes this is Switch first Black Friday it's noone's fault Nintendo didn't slash any prices that's their thing.
@KirbyTheVampire I think what it comes down too is comfort level for people. Studies have been done that people tend to buy the same thing over and over sooner then try some new or different. It's not just video games it's the same reason why some people eat at the same restaurant alot or why they drink the same soda.
As for CoD at least for me it's the multiplayer that gets me coming back year after year. I am sure that's the reason alot of people buy Madden year after year too even though it's roughly the same game. But games like Madden I can skip a year or two but for those people who like it way more then me the slight roster changes and game engine tweeks are enough to make them buy it.
@EVIL-C See I'm the other way. On my Switch I own Mario, Zelda & Sonic Mania. I'm kind of starved for content & I'm really just bidding my time until Bayonneta 1+2.
@Tasuki That's probably a big part of it as well, yeah, especially for people like that. It's easier for people like us to buy games we've never tried before, but I do see how someone who sticks to those types of games wouldn't feel sure about buying anything else.
@Hapuc
I remember back to 2014 people were going apesh*t on me because I was constantly talking about the lack of good exclusives on PS4. 'Remasters means more games,' everyone said. 'It's the first year,' is what I was told. 'AAAs no longer matter, it's all about indies.' Now all the sudden indies, ports/remasters (in the case of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe a very strong upgrade), and 'lack' of exclusives mean something. Give me a break. I'm as big a PlayStaiton fan as anybody but Super Mario Odyssey and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 are better than anything PS4 or Xbox One offered on the exclusive or 'AAA' front in their 15 months respectively, let alone first 9 like the Switch. Don't have the like the console but to say the only big games are 'Wii U' games is a flat-out false statement.
@Fight_Teza_Fight
I'd take Knack 2 out, substitute it with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and MLB The Show, amazing how those two games get overlooked, especially the latter which, while a sport sim, is one of the most consistently strong exclusives in the PlayStaiton lineup. It's a false narrative to say Switch has no games, like a lot on here seem to enjoy doing. It's just as annoying when people suggest PS4 'dropped the ball' or whatever. It's fine to have opinions and not like certain things but it's stunning to me that as gamers some of us still can't recognize a quality game even if it isn't something we like. I'm not a fan of games like Dark Souls or Bloodborne but I realize how well made they are. PlayStation fans don't like Xenoblade or Splatoon, I get that, they're still well-made games and are a big part of why Switch is selling so strongly out of the gate. Likewise, Nintendo fans may not like Uncharted or Horizon or Gravity Rush 2 but this 'LOL movie games' and other nonsense is just stupid and needs to stop. Both sides are looking moronic not just acknowledging both Sony and Nintendo had a great year and hopefully in 2018 MS will step it up in the first party category and join them.
@Gamer83 Lol no if we count all the remasters and PS3 games then Switch is complete failure to PS4 and Xbox standards what are you even on about lol.
@Gamer83 Oh yeah! Can't believe I forgot about Uncharted TLL, given Uncharted is my favourite video game franchise.
Goes to show how great the year was when you start losing track of games of that calibre.
Heard great things about MLB The Show. Not really into baseball, but maybe if one of the older games gets on PS+ I'd give it a go.
Agree, both sides have had a great year. Nintendo's quality exclusives practically forced me into buying a Switch.
Haven't even watched a trailer for CoD:WW2, let alone bought it.
@KirbyTheVampire Yeah. But I do know people that the only video games they play are Madden or CoD other games just don't interest them.
Heck my friends dad is one of those people. He plays nothing but Madden (he's big into football) and can do some amazing things with Madden but give him a controller and tell him to play Super Mario Odyssey and he won't even finish the first level without dieing at least once.
@Tasuki Yeah, that is true as well. I personally couldn't stand to play the same series over and over, especially ones as stagnant as Madden or FIFA, but I guess it's just like books or movies or music, where people often only like a few things, or maybe even just one.
@Gamer83 @Fight_Teza_Fight
I didn't forget Uncharted Lost Legacy, lol. Bought that day 1. UC is my favourite PS franchise ever. I'd buy any PS hardware for a new UC game. ❤️❤️❤️
I didn't get ARMS or Splatoon 2 either, and I own Pokken on Wii U. Not to get too personal, but I couldn't buy Gravity Rush 2, Horizon or Fire Emblem Warriors at launch, cause $$$ (and I normally hate those Dynasty Warriors games, but Hyrule was good). But yeah, everyone has different tastes, but you own Switch's 2 best games so that's good.
I don't know if I'll get Bayonetta 1 & 2. I have the B2 collection, plus B1 on PS3. But I will buy B3 day 1 for sure; so HYPED FOR 3. ❤️
And as gamer83 said, this gen feels like the port generation. But it's not all bad. Many of these games have a second chance to shine; they've been cleaned up, polished, remade, and ready for a new audience to experience them. Why is that a bad thing in some people's minds?
I'm very interested in Shadow of the Colossus for PS4, for example. I never played the original. Something old can still be new for you. And maybe you missed "game X" the first time? Here's your chance to get a better version, with fixed bugs, more content, etc... So I welcome these older ports/remakes/remasters, and don't fault the hardware or publisher, be it Sony, Nintendo, MS, etc.. for it.
@EVIL-C Sony dropped the ball from a first party perspective this year lol wait you're serious. Gravity rush 2,horizon zero dawn,uc lost legacy,MLB the show,everybody's golf,knack 2,wipeout collection and gt sport beg to differ not to mention the tons of third party exclusives that were highly rated that they got this year. Sony absolutely killed it this year no matter how to you try to slice it.
@dark_knightmare2 Obviously, you read nothing else I said previously. Didn't like Knack. Own UCLL.
"Tons" of 3rd party exclusives? No platform gets "tons" of those anymore, (maybe PC), it's 2017. Not 2002.
Also, I don't like sim racers, nor sports games, so golf and MLB mean f-k all to me.
@EVIL-C they didn't get tons of third party exclusives well let's see shall we. They got yakuza 0,yakuza kiwami,crash bandicoot remake collection,neir automata,nioh and persona 5 to name just a few. It's fine if you didn't like sonys first party offerings this year even though that's crazy to me but you don't get to say they dropped the ball just because you didn't like what they released you have to be objective and see that while you didn't like too much of what they released they def did a really good job and in no way dropped the ball.
@EVIL-C Show more respect to the King, PS4 has more exclusives that any platform this year, diversity is key to success too.
The King bothers you so much that you are here on a PS4 site defending another platforms.
Like I said above, the King is too busy leading the market.
@PS_Nation You can knock that off. If you can't reply with a respectful response then don't respond at all. Everyone is welcome here regardless of what brand they like. We don't need to go making people feel unwelcome.
@Tasuki Thank you.
@YummyHappyPills Yeah, I can see now, even when praising things like UC, Gravity Rush, SOTC remake, and 2018 looking much better.
A pedestal of PS4 Pro's, stacked atop each other, I'm sure.
@EVIL-C
Remasters aren't a bad thing, but I prefer them either in the middle of the gen or near the end as developers look to cash in one final time on that current gen while looking ahead to bring new games to the next one. PS4 and Xbox had dreadful first years in that sense. I don't buy consoles early to play older games. Switch has a lot of ports/remasters as well, but it hasn't bothered me as much because packed in with all that is ARMS, Splatoon 2, Super Mario Odyssey and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. If we want to get technical, I'll concede to the 'Switch sucks' crowd that Zelda is a port but it's still a big game for Switch because it's not like it was a game that had been released on another system prior to March 3, 2017. That was mainly my problem with stuff like TLoU Remastered, great game but been there, done that a year before and a total lack of new stuff to play besides that.
@Tasuki You tell me to knock off and i'm being disrespectful, sure.
I was kinda joking around, kinda, because this guy is spreading misinformation and not hiding at all his fanboy view. It's a fact that PS4 is doing great because many reasons like great exclusives and the bright future ahead, still he denies everything pretending that the console sold well just because it was cheap. Many people here already are saying that.
But again, you still have a problem with me, not the first time. Is anything wrong? If i bother you, just frickin ban me if you are so high of yourself. I was never disrespectful with anyone here and still you're bothering me.
@PS_Nation For the record, I have read his posts as well and I don't see anything wrong with his posts. As @YummyHappyPills said he's explain that it's not his thing. The only fanboy views I see are yours and quite honestly are not warrented here. But now it seems you want to disrespect me because I called you on it. Funny how you say you don't disrespect anyone here.
Anyway this is not up for discussing especially here. Just knock it off. Thanks.
@EVIL-C
"Take off the fan boy glasses. Sony dropped the ball in 2017 from a 1st party perspective"
ironic
@Tasuki He must be your friend then, because he was really disrespectful when he said to another use to "take off the fanboy glasses". Now tell me when i disrespected another user here, i'm waiting. You are marking me since i registered here, you deleted a topic of mine saying that it was innapropriate, but next day it was an article here featured on the main site.
Also saying "just knock it off", what a great way to disrespect the users here, i guess everyone can be moderator nowadays. Anyway, you're the boss, just try to be neutral and recognize when your friends are trolling, just saying.
@YummyHappyPills When he says to another user to take off the fanboy glasses he was being polite, right? He is also spreading misinformation, just because he doesn't like some games, it doesn't mean that Playstation didn't have a great year with first-party titles, i mean, does his personal taste is really important to the industry, it's the only thing that matters.
Btw, i still remember when you weren't polite with the user "Word Up Son": https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2017/11/well_always_back_new_intellectual_property_promises_sony
Let me guess, you guys are all friends, can't mess with you over here, right?
@naruball Exactly, you know it, i know it, but let's be careful, can't mess with the good friends there...
@PS_Nation Nope, As @YummyHappyPills stated not exactly friends I know him as a user here and we have butted heads a few times as well. And the other guy honestly this is the first time I really noticed him. So yeah not friends here.
Anyway I like how I this was not up for discussion here yet you choose to discuss it anyway. So I will say it again this is not up for discussion here.
Thanks.
@PS_Nation This is why I don't post here a lot. This is a playstation blog and an article about how well the playstation sold and they take offense to you acknowleding its dominance in the market.
Then they allow nintendo/xbox fanboys to come on here and spew their misinformation and call people on this site fanboys its called "pushsquare" not "but-its-4k" or "strap-your-dongle"
The ps4 had more exclusives, better support, modern graphics, better future announcements, VR support, and Oh yeah a better price
@YummyHappyPills pretty sure Zelda is a single platform game as well.
While it’s on Wii U and Switch that is hardly the same as multi-platform as the Wii U and Switch are not competing consoles.
Technically yes.
Sales wise. It’s not the same thing.
When the user base of PS4 exceeds the total of switch and Wii U out together anyway, a game outselling and making it onto the NPD is something quite impressive in its own right too.
@KingSandyRavage Look at those top lists. PS4 is selling a lot of games. Not a game, games. It's not just selling one single game, it's putting big numbers for a great diversity of games.
@Mahe what’s that got to do with anything, that’s just basic maths.
The current installed user base is huge. If anything the whole top ten should be all PlayStation just based on current market share alone.
The fact the Switch has put a dent in that clean sweep after only 9 months of being on the market is an undeniably huge deal. Hence Sony now changing tune entirely from “Nintendo are lovely and fine and no threat” to “wait, maybe we need to pay attention to this”
Not slamming Sony at all, I own and play all formats, but PS4 has been the most disappointing fron Sony yet with their success this gen coming down to giant mid steps by Nintendo (pre-Switch) and Microsoft with the XBox One.
It’s nice to see some competition starting a slow build again in the Market. Means Sony will up a gear instead of resting on winning by default and delivering little New since PS3.
@KingSandyRavage It's the same thing that was previously discussed in this thread. Even Wii U got some big hits, but having those one off hits didn't help it in the long run. When you've got a single tentpole release like Mario or Zelda, the people who own the system will get that because they really don't have much choice.
Me, I'll rather take my pick from the countless games available on PS4 than settle for Mario and Zelda. Sony's success with PS4 is because of great games and great hardware. It's amusing to see people like you trying to downplay that while trying to drum up the same old Nintendo yawn fests.
@Mahe hahaha not trying to drum up anything. If you think PS4 is a decent piece of hardware and Sony’s best effort yet... then...... oh dear.
@MadAussieBloke @MaHe
How does objectively recognising any success make me a fanboy??
I’ve owned and played PS4 a lot longer than Switch. My opinion is objective as an owner and gamer of all three formats.
If you choose to ignore a blatant and credible success of what you’d call a rival format then the only actual fanboys in this conversation are you two Sony Fanboys
Microsoft should just leave the gaming console world now. They are not going to own everyone like they wanted to with the original Xbox ONE's(DRM) idea to
I'll still never understand why Call of Duty and other war games are so popular, but to each their own.
Either way, I'm glad the PS4 is still dominating the console market.
@MadAussieBloke I'm sorry, but you are cancerous to this site. Either you acknowledge the success of other companies instead of downplaying them everything single time, or DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL !!! Seriously, it's freaking annoying.😠
@YummyHappyPills Seems excessive.
What did he do exactly?
All these flavors and you choose to be salty ?
@YummyHappyPills Haha that's fair enough I guess.
I would miss the GIFs though.
@YummyHappyPills who’s reporting who for what here?
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