Well it also was a repeat of the 90s as well but differently.
In 1994-5 Sony's competitors were genuinely retarded..
Nintendo was taking their sweet time to launch the N64 (which came with space constrained carts and Nintendo's history of being shit to work with)
Sega's Saturn was expensive, complex to program for, and poorly marketed outside Japan (and that's not getting into the circumstances of trying to have too many consoles for sale at once, along with two competing 32 bit consoles).
In Japan they had Segata Sanshiro and courted a lot of otaku gamedevs (there are many PC-98 to Saturn VN ports which led to an explosion of that genre), and also had 2d arcade ports. In the west it was known for inferior versions of PS1 games and Bernie Stolar's extreme mismanagement of Sega later on in the lifespan of the console.
In the PS4 era while you could say journalists shilled it, which they did, there were a lot of factors too.
Not only did nobody except Nintendo offer any sort of backwards compatibility at launch but also the PS4's competitors were well, how do I put it?
The Xbox One didn't have the sliver of Japanese games the 360 did that weren't also on the PS4, the Gal Gun saga meant that JP devs making niche games also avoided MS, there was the whole first year with a $500 price, Kinect, the infamous DRM that got rolled back pre launch, and it had to have massive price cuts to sell (and it wasn't sold out like the PS4 was for a year). But most importantly, your normie friends bought PS4s.
The Wii U was well, the Wii U. It became infamous for third parties abandoning the console and "droughts" to the point that "Please understand" became a meme. It was the console to buy when you wanted to play Smash Bros and a few Nintendo exclusives, and that's it despite Reggie's promise to the contrary. It had downgraded versions of games and developers shitting on the CPU in particular. The only thing worse than a multiplat console is a console with severe droughts.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/iwata-apologizes-for-wii-u-software-drought
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