Knitted Knight
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It appears interest in knowing what’s inside a PS5 was much greater than I could have imagined. The official teardown video has garnered roughly 6.5 million views in just a little over 48 hours. But if we consider views outside of Sony's official YouTube channel from influencers, media and other popular gaming channels in general we're talking easily several million more views on Youtube alone.
If we compare the PS5 teardown to the PS4 Pro teardown for example, that video only garnered 1.5 millions views lifetime, after years on the web.
A lot of that interest can be explained by the fact that the official PS Youtube channel has 12.3 million subscribers, and that there is a sizeable interest in the PS5 (as both the reveal event and the pre-order madness can attest). However, a technical video without a prior countdown announcement, dropped on a Wednesday isn’t what you would expect to stoke fire in the hearts of gamers worldwide except for a very limited group of hardcore fans.
So I’m starting to believe that the long wait as well as the console war narratives suggesting “Sony hiding its hardware” might have played a role in driving interest. As such it created much more intrigue than other teardown videos, past and present by a sizeable margin (including those of the competition).
So do you agree on my take as to why its popularity is like so? Do you disagree?
Is this just a reflection of the PlayStation brand popularity worldwide? Demand? COVID?
Did the FUD help it? Was it the T-1000 cooling its APU?
If we compare the PS5 teardown to the PS4 Pro teardown for example, that video only garnered 1.5 millions views lifetime, after years on the web.
A lot of that interest can be explained by the fact that the official PS Youtube channel has 12.3 million subscribers, and that there is a sizeable interest in the PS5 (as both the reveal event and the pre-order madness can attest). However, a technical video without a prior countdown announcement, dropped on a Wednesday isn’t what you would expect to stoke fire in the hearts of gamers worldwide except for a very limited group of hardcore fans.
So I’m starting to believe that the long wait as well as the console war narratives suggesting “Sony hiding its hardware” might have played a role in driving interest. As such it created much more intrigue than other teardown videos, past and present by a sizeable margin (including those of the competition).
So do you agree on my take as to why its popularity is like so? Do you disagree?
Is this just a reflection of the PlayStation brand popularity worldwide? Demand? COVID?
Did the FUD help it? Was it the T-1000 cooling its APU?
