Yup. it's called accepting the facts. Putting together logic, reasoning and coming to a conclusion based on facts. You chose to look for reasons elsewhere when they were right staring you right in the face. Like I said it was hilarious watching you grasping at straws instead of simply admitting to yourself that maybe Sony did something right. This is important because you've spent the past 9 months claiming that Sony's success is due to them not fucking up as much as Microsoft.

And no, the people who buy consoles on Day 1 do not necessarily buy it for the launch lineup. Everyone knows this but you. But then again, your knowledge about console gaming is limited. IIRC, you thought Crysis could not be done on consoles.

If you think a console's sales depends on the exclusives at launch then I dont know what to tell you. It doesn't have much to do with the third party games either since all of them have been available for a month on last gen consoles and PC. What did the PS2 launch with? A bunch of Dreamcast ports and Tekken Tag Tournament. At least in NA. A console is a 6 year investment. No one buys console based on what they are getting today. It's the promise of an amazing array of first party games and other exclusives that Sony has been producing for the past six years year after year.

It's hilarious to read your post and see you do your mighty best to look for reasons to not give Sony credit for this. 'Oh Sony sold a million units! Must be because of CoD and BF!' , 'Must be because this gen went on for too long!'. How about giving credit where its due. The fact that Sony sold this many units in spite of a weak exclusive launch tells us that they did everything else right.

• People know what Sony studios can do, especially after playing TLOU this year. They know games will come.
• People know every single multiplatform game IS and WILL be better on the PS4.
• Sony has a service that is giving out 9 free games across three different platforms every month. Along with discounts. Some of these games are barely a few months old, others are brand new.
• They had the cheaper console. Only $399 which is cheaper than what PS2 launched at when inflation is taken into account.
• They did not insult their own core audience by focusing on TV, Kinect and Online-DRM. Things core gamers have denounced every single time they come out.
• They know who their audience is. They know who buys a console at launch, and it's not Stacy's mom.

There were a lot of people who said focusing on the core gamer is foolish and is not going to bring many games. They all look like idiots now. None more so than MS who lost their main audience to Sony. At least in NA. Just like Sony did last gen.

Just stop with this neutral gamer bullshit and give the credit where its due.

And lastly, MS has said their preorder numbers are twice that of the 360. They will have a decent launch. They are also launching worldwide simultaneously so they may even sell more units in one day.

The ones I saw on Amazon were like $100 or so.... maybe I was looking at an incompatible type?

FFS, why does every bullshit criticism of old RPG's see 'number crunching' as some integral part of the combat that makes it too difficult? Dungeon Master? Was that full of 'number crunching'? Might and Magic? Gold Box? Ultima? Sure there were stats and modifiers but to speak as if the combat was some arcane thing which the poor 'average gamer' couldn't be able to work out is a load of shit. Actual combat was for the most part simple to execute-either click on the beast or select an attack from a list and the computer does the rest...what's the problem here? That you have to work out what attacks, weapons, spells work best? That's the REAL 'PROBLEM' with old RPG's isn't it ? That you actually had to THINK during combat encounters instead of clickety f-ing click! Right ? "OH NO!, IT'S THAC0! Run boy and girls, he's gonna make our brain hurt!"

Media and developers help reinforce the notion that that we're better off just spamming the left-click button until the world explodes and we're covered in a pile of steaming achievement-bullshit that tells us how great we are and how fantastic it is that we were able to push that left-click button enough to kill Monster #22151551254

You still need to play Vampire first.

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I can agree at some point, but i think you are giving to much shit to an indie game. I really want to see what Freebird games could do with solid budget at their hands.