@Death

I would guess he's basing his opinion in Sony and Nintendo...... i mean those two are from japan RIGHT?!

Micheal Pachter couldn't predict his mourning alarm clock.

I don't see how that is sustainable when the majority of game sales are 3rd party titles.

Sony will win the next two generations. Microsoft's lack of first party and decisions to make it play anywhere will not allow them to win. The switch is another WiiU and Nintendo drops out of the home console market all together.

Last time I checked Console gamer's have all tried to just use PC's All of us have one. We don't like fighting to get a game to work on our pc. Or all the bugs. Other wise I would most of the time play games on my gaming desktop or high end gaming laptop. If I didn't have to worry about assigning keys to my keyboard/controller.

How many people want to play a fighting game on a PC? A call of duty game on pc? Some do but most dont. Then developers on pc program to the lowest 15% of power on the PC so they can sale to as many machines as possible.

Death Japan left non portables because they was forced by JRPG developers all going mobil to capture the mass transit market. Most of the world is not going to have large amounts of mass transit time and little console time. Especially now that there is the SWITCH.

@jasonKCK that was uncalled for! Accurate, and totally the funniest comment of the day !!!

Have u seen the last PSX and E3? Sony has an abundance of big AAA exclusives in the oven. Look at the flood of great exclusives this year already on PS4.

@puty
Install base has nothing to do with commercial success the way you're looking at it. It's all the same to the publisher/developer. No one gets a software bonus for +/- attach rate. No one uses that barometer because then everything ever sold becomes a "failure".

By that attach rate logic one could call the highest selling CD of all time, best selling burger, highest grossing movie, best selling book or automobile all failures because they only sold millions in an install base of billions of consumers. But no one looks at that. Cuz that's stupid.

Puty, what you don't understand, is that Sony consistently releases new first party and second party exclusives that fill a slew of different categories. It's not that PlayStation has the best shooter, its that PlayStation has the best shooter, third person action, rpg, racing game, puzzle game, etc. So a few million fans for each category gets SOMETHING. What if you were on 360, and you didn't really care for Halo? Third party all day excluding a couple of good games sprinkled around every couple of years. That's why the 360 got dominated. Thats why the first XBOX got dominated, and thats why the XB1 is being dominated now. I honestly hope the scorpio gaming PC has some sweet exclusives, because I'll buy one. I've got the cash, and I love gaming. I'd rather shell out ~500 bucks every couple of years for a xbox branded PC that costs 500 less than a real one to play PC games on. The differences in power from console to PC just don't matter to me anymore, and its not worth the cheaters plaguing the PC world. IF they let gamers play with KB/Mouse, I'll just plop it on my desk, next to my Ouya.

Most of the people aren't as against you as you think. A man remembers everyone thinking horizon wouldn't do as well sales wise as it has but they never said it would do better critically than Zelda. Also switch is yet to be seen lifetime how well it does but not many solid predictions on that. Psvr has done better than Sony predicted.

You know I also said a couple things that could came to pass, lemme see here.

I said Sony would take back top spot
From ninty with the ps4. Yup it happened.

I said (and got dumped on for this) horizon would outsell zelda) yuppo.

I claimed Wii u support would cease after switch launch when Nintendo themselves claimed it would keep going. Bingo got that one right.

I also said Erik will keep trolling playstation...

lol....whatever you say. Don't know how you polled the "majority" of n4g. Sounds like BS.

You say that only because you ALWAYS downplay anything Sony related, i have yet to see you say something positive about them. Every post you make in Sony articles reeks of trolling negativity and this one is no exception. Your post should started: "i wish Microsoft and Nintendo take over..." because that's you wish for to happen. Oh and your predictions are all safe bets, 90% who are into gaming could predict that.

Dude you're a troll who just spewed a whole bunch of bullshit. Nobody thought horzion would score higher then Zelda you're pulling that out your ass, switch had a nice first month to their standards but it won't sell more than 20 or 30 million lifetime,ps vr is still selling well and is the most successful vr device out there and finally you act like Nintendo doing portability is something innovative or something that's never been done before which is funny. Sony has released the most critically acclaimed games in the last twenty years according to metacritic so if we're talking about robust exclusives Sony def has that edge over Nintendo. Sony has been the king since they entered the gaming space with the ps1 and if you think Nintendo of all companies is more prepared for the future you're delusional. Nintendo has a online network that's like ten years behind the competition,no third party support and no market share besides the most dedicated Nintendo fanboys who lap up their outdated crap every gen.

Erik, your way too delusional.

Nintendo has not been relevant in regards to console gaming and probably in the ballpark of 10 years, after the wii I would actually argue that Nintendo lost even more relevance in regards to the hardcore Market too much casuals purchase of the Wii to the point where I'm not really sure lots of real Gamers really even owned the device as opposed to Casual users.

So I have no clue why would you even remotely believe that Microsoft would dominate the market when Microsoft has actually never outsold the PlayStation and tearing a generation.

Sorry but if all things remain equal how on Earth are you coming to the conclusion that Microsoft would dominate Sony based on what evidence?

Microsoft is bringing their games to PC which is actually showing they no longer wish to it directly compete against the PlayStation in terms of actual exclusives which actually means ultimately they will sell less consoles every generation cuz there is even less reason to want to own such a platform if you possibly own a PC.

Nintendo creating the switch which is actually a portable shows that they also no longer wish to directly compete against Sony in regards to the Standalone console Market.

The Switch is a portable so regardless of if you're playing it on the television or on the go I'm sorry buddy but it is a portable Nintendo like I predicted bowed out of the stand-alone home console Market likely because the dominant you're seeing by the PlayStation right now.

Nintendo now exclusively in the portable Market in Microsoft basically putting their games on PC the actually only console that is Standalone that actually has exclusive for an actual fact based on what we know as a console Standalone it to be is actually the PlayStation 4.

PlayStation 4 was exclusively designed to only play on the television it is not a portable device in which they had to create the limitations in order to make it portable so regardless of how you're trying to word it or manipulate it, the switch is a portable regardless of what you're displaying it to, it was created to be portable....

So it basically means if you wanted a standalone console that was actually made 100% to be a standalone console and NOT a portable with exclusives the PlayStation 4 is actually the only device that does that right now.

The Xbox one no longer has exclusive by Microsoft because they've made it clear that they're releasing games on PC

The Nintendo switch is not a stand-alone console it is actually a portable.

So what is very hard to form an argument that Nintendo or Microsoft would gain dominance in the dedicated console Market when both of them have actually shown actions to show that they're leaving that market.

One company decided to release a portable you could play on the television, and the other company decided to forgo releasing exclusives on their console soooooooo I'm not entirely sure how either of these companies could dominate a market they're basically trying to leave.

So let's understand this in the most simplest layman's terms.

The switch is a portable device in the choice to make it portable also limits how powerful it could be which is moot because that is what Portables are in the first place in comparison to stand alone consoles that were only created to run on the television.

Releasing your games on the PC automatically makes them no longer exclusive to one device.

LMFAO! PlayStation 4 breaking numerous records shows otherwise.

PlayStation VR is not a big deal? PlayStation VR is the best selling virtual reality device on the market right now.....

@C_A- ABSOLUTELY AGREED! Sony is definitely going to lose Japan but in the respect that so he never really even had Japan in terms of Portables so yes you're correct but I'm not sure there was a time period in which they were more dominant in regards to Portables then Nintendo.

I absolutely agree with you on not knowing exactly what on Earth Erik is talking about in regards to Microsoft getting dominance that company is basically closer to leaving the console market then dominating it. For them to basically start putting all of their games on PC only confirms that they're probably not looking to openly compete against Sony any longer which actually means they're likely going to lose units because of that move not dominate.

Sony will continue their dominance worldwide because in order to say they lost Japan, you would actually have to savy the support that they're getting in regards to titles like Yakuza or Final Fantasy series or Resident Evil or anything major like that would be lost but I don't actually see anything regarding that happening especially because of the actual limitations of the switch itself because it's portable so the 3DS did not suddenly make a Final Fantasy 15 not appear on the PlayStation 4 so I actually believe the point you're bringing up is irrelevant to Sony they're not going to lose those key Triple A Japanese titles because of a popular portable simply because they never really lost them because of the DS or 3DS or anything like that the switch is no different

They're still going to be a market for titles like Final Fantasy 16 and clearly there's still going to be a market for that to be a triple a huge Blockbuster title so I don't really see a company like Square Enix missing out and leaving that market wide open for another publisher to capitalize on simply because of the switch especially since they could simply just released other titles that actually fit that platform similar to what you saw with Bravely Default that never stopped the Final Fantasy 15 so your point is actually pretty irrelevant when you look at their previous Portables.

I mean the 3DS has over 65 million units.

Never stopped Final Fantasy 15 from appearing on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

I understand your point with switch being a portable and likely being very successful in Japan I don't disagree with you but you have to consider that's not really going to stop the PlayStation 4 from selling simply because there will be a market for Final Fantasy 16 and Kingdom Hearts 3 what have you.

If those Concepts were not lost in favor of 3DS and DS I'm not entirely sure what would be different about the switch.

i think you may bei early with thinking the Switch bet is won. lets Check that again in 1,5 years.

Sony bought all the top tech companies for game streaming tech and codes and such... They have PS now, however it isn't there to replace their hardware, the games on the service are a year or two behind the curve and for the vast majority it's not realistically the way to go.... Because of issues surrounding Internet connection and speeds that aren't going away anytime soon.