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Sony's PlayStation 4 Has Nearly Outsold the PlayStation 3 (cnet.com)
Sony's PlayStation 3 sales stand at around 80 million -- which means its successor, the current gen PlayStation 4, will soon surpass it. From a report: The Japanese electronics giant sold 9 million PlayStation 4 consoles from October through December, it said on Friday in its latest quarterly earnings report. Sales for the console were at 67.5 million as of Sept. 30 2017, according to Sony's previous quarterly earnings report, bringing the total to 76.5 million. The PlayStation 2 remains Sony's best-selling console, with over 150 million units sold. These figures come days after Nintendo on Wednesday revealed the Switch, released last March, is up to 14.8 million in sales. Sales of Microsoft's Xbox One are estimated by VGChartz to be around 36 million.
Persona 5, Disgaea 5, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier, and Dragon Quest (both upcoming RPG and Builders) are why I have a PS4. Been solid for me so far - no issues to speak of.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Right, 'cuz I crashed the thing.
And also, I rewrote Sony's crap DLNA player add-on to make it not show the episode names (something the PS3 and other DLNA clients do fine).
And I wrote the Sony spec that says that no 3rd party device can turn on the PS4 from Bluetooth.
Yeah, those must be my fault.
As far as playing games, I haven't seen anything to date that looked or worked better than the PS3. And it doesn't play our library of PS3 games - at least not natively. I've heard that there's a remote PS3 option for some games, but I saw no game I wanted to use on the list.
Understand that I'm not against having a new(-ish) Sony gaming console; it's just that my minimum requirement is that it work as well as the old one.
Queue the [PlayStation 2 game development] companies shitting out endless drivel that were somehow classed as "games"
Is the PC any different in this respect, other than that PC users can install community-maintained mods to make some of those games actually decent?
PS3 had no games, PS4 had games. It also helped that Microsoft shot themselves in the face with the Xbone launch.