If you can back up your own theories only then can you criticize another's theory just as sloppily conjured.
Why don't you believe that new management does not = new Wii? If you can present an actual argument, not a shouting match that contains no data, reasonings, or actual counters other than saying your fake numbers are better than my fake numbers, maybe we'll get some where.
How many DS owners bought a DS Lite and have a DS 'normal' laying around? I can speculate 5% of the owners have double-bought while you can just as easily state 80% have, and we'd both be about as close as anyone else is: who knows?
Nobody at Fred Meyer asks the consumer if they are buying a replacement, an upgrade, or if they are keeping the old product. Sony's numbers even include replacement units. Nintendo only goes on sales, not including replacement units. Everyone already knows this.
If I have no apple for 5 years, and I am given an apple, I may or may not eat the apple. Nobody really knows if I'll touch the apple or not. No reasoning by any magnitude can suggest I won't eat the apple because I've never touched an apple in 5 years - it has no weight anywhere. Just as much as saying 5% of the first 20 million were replaced, or better yet that 100% of the first 30 million units were replaced under warranty or not. We just don't get those figures.
And honestly, upgrading your technology is more frequent than a glass of coffee. People upgrade cell phones, computers, cars, TVs, all the time, because they can, not because they need to. Because it's 'cool'. If you can afford to buy an upgrade once, you can afford to buy another upgrade yet again.
My room mate gave me my current PS2. He has another newer PS2, as well as a PS2 slim, sitting in his room still today. I refused to pay for another. But, that's 5 sales between the two of us (my first broke, bought another off a neighbor for $25, and inherited my room mate's old one). My other room mate, recently married, has one as well. That puts 3 consumers at achieving 6 console sales overall.
I really have no other facts to present for hardware realities other than my immediate household has 3 users, and overall 6 consoles - that doesn't include the source of one of them, whose original owner might just have another PS2 himself.
Numbers: Checker Players > Halo Players
Checkers Age and replayability > Halo Age and replayability
Therefore, Checkers > Halo
So, Checkers is a better game than Halo.
