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Forums - Gaming Discussion - October Trends PS4 sizzles, while Halo fizzles, and Wii-U remains constant.

This seems to be many users first time viewing the monthly social media trends. Since people aren't following the algorithm I am included the algorithm detals from the archive in this post.

Technical explanation:

Xbox (Green)

How does this work:                                                  

  • Anything with xbox one next to each other are included
  • Anything with the four words xbox one backwards compatibility anywhere in the tweet are included
  • Anything with xbone are included
  • Anything with xb1 are included
  • Anything with the term xbox that isn’t the phrase xbox 360 are included. If a game like Tomb Raider are/is coming out for both the xbox one and the xbox 360 it is included under the OR rule. This is done because a lot of people just say I got a new xbox, and the majority of xbox only tweets are about the xbox one.

Playstation (Blue):

How does this work:

  • Anything with ps4 are included
  • Anything with the words playstation 4 next to each other are included
  • Anything with the term playstation that isn’t the phrase playstion 3, playstation vita, or playstation 2 is included. If a game like Guilty Gear Xrd are/is coming out for the PS4 and PS3, PS4 and PSV, or all three it is included under the OR rule. This is done because a lot of people just tweet I got a new playstation, and the majority of playstation only tweets are about the playstation 4.

Wii-U (orange)

How does this work:

  • Anything with wii-u is included
  • Anything with wiiu is included
  • Anything with wii u next to each other is included

Note: Since I can only use four OR commands I omitted the abbreviation that is hardly used and has the least impact on the charts. The impact of the removal is approximately 2,285 units for the month using xbo -xbox -xbone -xb1. The remaining xbo entrees may or may not be less than 2,285 as xbo could be a typo for many things including xbox, hbo, etc.

Note 2: Trends are not cap sensitive



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Seems like MarketShare =]



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

PS4 more than 29,3 Million Units worldwide - that is so amazing! Christmas-Time is PS4-Time!



That title (rofl)



I don;t see anything about Halo in that graph. Or is that titles a reference to the fact that Halo wasn't able to push Xbox over PS4 on Twitter and Facebook?



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This is social media? Wii U will get worse in October now that Super Mario Maker is a month old and Yoshi isn't that trendy.

Oh wait there's a line graph for October instead? Are there line and pie graphs for both months?



Maybe cause people are actually busy playing Halo instead of talking about it..



It's a bit mean that they included all playstation and Xbox platforms but for Nintendo only the Wii U.



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vivster said:
It's a bit mean that they included all playstation and Xbox platforms but for Nintendo only the Wii U.


you... you... I see what you did here



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

cycycychris said:

Why does the Vita get counted but not the 3DS?

Why does playstation get collection from 5 different platforms, microsoft get 2 and only 1 from Nintendo.

From what I'm seeing here, I wouldn't take this data serious one bit.

Since all people care about is the comparison between Xbox and Playstation, it's only sensible to reduce the irrelevant parts to not distract from the essential data.



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