"In this first article we will be comparing the aligned launches of the three 8th generation home consoles in the USA. The Wii U launched on November 18, 2012, the PlayStation 4 on November 15, 2013, and the Xbox One on November 22, 2013.
The PlayStation 4 had the biggest opening week in the US with sales of 963,127. The Xbox One launched with sales of 652,045 and the Wii U with sales of 421,840."
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While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. So developers heard and listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of selling a game to the customers.
Hopefully Hercule will at least get his jetpack.
PS4 beating Xbone confirmed and Wii U still ahead of Xbone good job Sony and Nintendo!
It's amazing PS4 is ahead of xone in the US where the xbox brand has become synonymous with gaming.
When some ol'timer (or more likely non-gamer) with little to no idea about gaming refers to videogames they say 'xbox'.
But they used to say 'playstation' and before that 'nintendo' so I guess whatever is most popular is the go to term.
Why does this state PS4 sold 963,127 in the first week when PS4 sold over 1 million in the first day?
if theres one thing i cant stand about this site, its that users talk about numbers from vgchartz as if theyre somehow legit. these estimations mean absolutely nothing.
Pro Sony vgchartz article....legit.
Pro Xbox vgchartz article....false, unreliable etc etc