Basically because the XBox 360 was the most popular console (not counting the Wii) in the US and most of those teenagers grew up with it and so they're attached. Not really different from other generations who would've favored Nintendo, Sega or Sony.

Yeah, that's slightly over 10M a year good luck with that. I imagine they'll be adjusting that prediction down a year after it launches like they did with the Wii U.

@BassMan: Weird, I had no problems last year getting MGSV and AC:Syndicate (I really didn't expect to get that one and just mentioned it at the end of a chat about another issue) from NewEgg without having to do that, granted I also bought my card back in May but I also got The Witcher 3 and Arkham (lol) Knight.

That's kind of dumb.

Meh. Looks like I'm holding out longer and with the apparent issues of over clocking on Micron memory I might just wait until the 11 series since I don't need a GPU upgrade that badly. Let's see what they offer next month.

@smokerob79: The PS3's hardware was terrible and what extra performance you could get out of it required A LOT more work than on the XB360. It's pretty much why only exclusives saw the benefit of it.

@wendopolis_bruh: Huh?

If technology moved at the same rate it did in the early to mid 00s people wouldn't be able to play new games on PC at high settings or in a lot of cases even minimum settings at 60+FPS on eight year old CPUs (Bloomfield i7s) and four year old video cards. Things have slowed down a lot over the last eight or so years. The only place it's really moving at a good pace is on mobile.
Technology (especially when it comes to computing) moved A LOT faster 15-20 years ago than it is today where we've pretty much come to the end of Moore's Law. Don't mistake console cycles (which use to be 5, 6 years tops) for technological progression, Sony and MS certainly failed at pushing technology forward has consoles had done in the past. The reason why the PS4 was so far behind in the first place is because Sony couldn't afford (and MS wasn't willing to) to repeat what they've done in the past with selling hardware at significant loss. This PS4 "Neo" is basically what the PS4 should've been in the first place (though the CPU still sucks) and would have had they continued the "loss leader" route.

I agree though, unless Sony gets some big exclusives that I'm interested in that in no way will ever come to PC I'm probably still not buying a PS4 either. It took me three years to get a new console last gen which was the longest I held out for but it's looking like I'll be waiting longer this time if I ever get one at all. I could certainly put that $400 (which the "Neo" would probably cost) to better use on just upgrading my GPU again like I did last year and ended up getting four games with my 970 while not actually spending about $100 less.

That story thing was BS to begin with but still not as much BS as the BS in the way Konami has been pushing micro-transactions with this game.