Aura7541 said:
TheDrill said:
gcah2006 said:
TheDrill said:
I know what percentage represents, but what you fail to understand is that 45 % is still close to 55 % regardless of the quantity it repsents, that's what percent are used for, not to represent an actual number quantity.
1 % can represent a small or humongous quantity, but it's undeniable that it also represents 1/100.
Hence 45 % can represent as you have said 45 or 45 * 10 ^6, but the truth is still that 45 % is close to 55 % regardless of the actual difference between them, it's the percentage difference that matters.
If during all this generation X1 maintains close to 45 % marketshare, nobody can claim that PS4 dominated US, it will always remain a close battle.
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I had made a point of not responding in this thread any more... but I can't help but use my Maths major to good use here.
I'm going to assume 55%:45% is a correct ratio of the marketshare like you have. Regardless of how many total console sales there are, this can be used to determine the 13% (and previously 10%) difference you quoted. (55-45) / 55 * 100 is a little over 18%.
As you rightly say, 45% can represent 45 * 10^6. But even using the respective figures of (55*10^6 - 45*10^6) / 55*10^6 * 100 is over 18%. And 18% isn't close. Not even in the ball park.
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It's not the difference between PS4 sold and X1 sold that matters, but the marketshare.
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Yes, the difference matters. You did not read my previous comment, did you?
"Let's say 3 years later, PS4 is at 55 million and X1 is at 45 million. That's a 10 million gap. The amount of time for the X1 to overcome that gap will take longer than overcoming a 600k gap. Let's say MS wants to overcome that 10 million gap in a year. They need to outsell the PS4 by 833,333 units a month versus 50,000 a month if they want to outsell the PS4 if the gap is 600k. That is a 1666.66% difference!!"
Point being, time is ticking for the X1 for every month that passes by and the gap has been getting larger over the course of this year. Rankings from retailers like Amazon and Gamestop show that there is not enough interest for the Xbox One-only SKU for the console to outsell its competitor, so the best X1 can do is to reduce the gap per month. The overall gap, though, is going to keep growing.
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I understand all that, the point is it's only the beginning of the generation and currently the gap is not that great, if X1 sells good during holidays alone it can shrink that gap by 50 %.
Furthermore even with a 10 million gap at 45 million it still represens a considerable chunk, assuming 55 million for PS4, it's 45 %, almost half, so it's not that bad.
