Mr Khan said:
and where does the tale of the DS itself factor into all of this? Taking a snapshot of the market and using it to make declarations of broader trends is cherry-picking at its core |
Cherry picking is selective attention. it would be looking at a few things and ignoring the rest. But I was easily able to come up with many things that are going wrong and showing this system is doing poorly. I have yet to hear why this system is doing well. But you mentioned the DS, so let's look at it.
The DS had a worse line up of Games than the 3DS and had very strong compition from the PSP. It was thought that Sony would take the handheld market. The 3DS has Nintendogs (the sequel to the system that made the DS) is selling to a warm market and has no compeition. By all of this, the 3DS should be doing far better.
There are far to many stats to show that this isn't doing well. But how about we look at the sales charts.