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Miyamotoo on 12 January 2019
DonFerrari said:
Shiken said:

No one was saying that was not the case.  Not sure what this has to do with Japan sales.

 

Nintendo owns Japan

Sony Owns Europe

Nintendo and Sony trade off in the US, with MS not far behind

 

Nothing new, funny how you felt the need to drag sales outside of Japan into the discussion though.

Nintendo haven't dominated USA since SNES. PS1, PS2, X360 and PS4 (with X1 really close) have won USA.

Wii sold most in US last gen, around 50m in US alone. Switch could easily sell more than PS4 and espacily more than XB1 in US.



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Kerotan on 12 January 2019
noname2200 said:
Kerotan said:

Nah ps4 is a profit making machine on a global basis. They were right to do what they did. If they cared for Japan a Switch like device was the way to go. They cared just not enough. Maybe the ps5 will get a portable sku that streams games to it. 

I feel like he's trying to start a different conversation, and admire how you are handling this one.

Smart man. The ps4 holds all the aces. You can't 1 up a ps4 fan this gen. You need to nit pick certain markets and that doesn't really work when the WW market is playstations. 



DonFerrari on 13 January 2019
peachbuggy said:
DonFerrari said:

Having a high bar for itself doesn't make the conversation not applicable.

Nintendo haven't dominated USA since SNES. PS1, PS2, X360 and PS4 (with X1 really close) have won USA.

I haven't dragged sales outside Japan as I didn't put any numbers. I just said that the fact that only Sony itself would be able to come close to their top rankers don't make we stop comparing PS4 to its top rankers ever since day 1. So not sure why that would be a problem to compare Switch to Nintendo top rank ranking in Japan.

WW for sure

WW

WW. Fair enough. I just thought you were talking about Japan, given the nature of the thread.

Nahhh I don't think any Playstation console will get anywhere near to top their previous numbers in Japan.

Miyamotoo said:
DonFerrari said:

Nintendo haven't dominated USA since SNES. PS1, PS2, X360 and PS4 (with X1 really close) have won USA.

Wii sold most in US last gen, around 50m in US alone. Switch could easily sell more than PS4 and espacily more than XB1 in US.

Gues you could use this site to check your numbers.

Wii sold 45.5M on North America, so USA only probably less than 40M. X360 sold 49.11 so around 45M. How did Wii sold most in US last gen?

Switch sure could sell more than PS4, but easily? Aren't you reaching a little?

I'll reiterate. Last 4 gens Nintendo never dominated USA market. It was PS1, PS2, X360 and now PS4 (with X1 really close).



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."

Miyamotoo on 13 January 2019
DonFerrari said:
peachbuggy said:

WW. Fair enough. I just thought you were talking about Japan, given the nature of the thread.

Nahhh I don't think any Playstation console will get anywhere near to top their previous numbers in Japan.

Miyamotoo said:

Wii sold most in US last gen, around 50m in US alone. Switch could easily sell more than PS4 and espacily more than XB1 in US.

Gues you could use this site to check your numbers.

Wii sold 45.5M on North America, so USA only probably less than 40M. X360 sold 49.11 so around 45M. How did Wii sold most in US last gen?

 

Switch sure could sell more than PS4, but easily? Aren't you reaching a little?

I'll reiterate. Last 4 gens Nintendo never dominated USA market. It was PS1, PS2, X360 and now PS4 (with X1 really close).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_sales

Nintendo shipped 48.68m Wii units in Americas.

Can you gave me officall source for 360 sales?

 

Well Switch is selling more than PS4 in US same time period (with December results), so yeah Switch could sell more than PS4 in US and espacily more than XB1 that sold less than PS4.



Kerotan on 13 January 2019
DonFerrari said:
peachbuggy said:

WW. Fair enough. I just thought you were talking about Japan, given the nature of the thread.

Nahhh I don't think any Playstation console will get anywhere near to top their previous numbers in Japan.

Miyamotoo said:

Wii sold most in US last gen, around 50m in US alone. Switch could easily sell more than PS4 and espacily more than XB1 in US.

Gues you could use this site to check your numbers.

Wii sold 45.5M on North America, so USA only probably less than 40M. X360 sold 49.11 so around 45M. How did Wii sold most in US last gen?

Switch sure could sell more than PS4, but easily? Aren't you reaching a little?

I'll reiterate. Last 4 gens Nintendo never dominated USA market. It was PS1, PS2, X360 and now PS4 (with X1 really close).

Saying he's reaching only a little is reaching! Xbox won the US last gen. Not the Wii. 



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Miyamotoo on 13 January 2019
Kerotan said:
DonFerrari said:

Nahhh I don't think any Playstation console will get anywhere near to top their previous numbers in Japan.

Gues you could use this site to check your numbers.

Wii sold 45.5M on North America, so USA only probably less than 40M. X360 sold 49.11 so around 45M. How did Wii sold most in US last gen?

Switch sure could sell more than PS4, but easily? Aren't you reaching a little?

I'll reiterate. Last 4 gens Nintendo never dominated USA market. It was PS1, PS2, X360 and now PS4 (with X1 really close).

Saying he's reaching only a little is reaching! Xbox won the US last gen. Not the Wii. 

I am not reaching because his Wii numbers are wrong like I wrote above, Wii sold 48.7m in Americas, not 45.5m and in same time he didnt proved me any proof for 360 sales. You also sound very confident, can you gave me some facts that proves that Xbox 360 sold more than Wii in US?

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Train wreck on 13 January 2019
Miyamotoo said:
Kerotan said:

Saying he's reaching only a little is reaching! Xbox won the US last gen. Not the Wii. 

Can I see facts that proves that?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/analysis-xbox-360-poised-to-pass-wii-in-us-sales-by-years-end/



Miyamotoo on 13 January 2019
Train wreck said:
Miyamotoo said:

Can I see facts that proves that?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/analysis-xbox-360-poised-to-pass-wii-in-us-sales-by-years-end/

"Poised" its not same thing like passed. So still no one gave me fact that X360 sold more than Wii in US.



Train wreck on 13 January 2019
Miyamotoo said:
Train wreck said:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/analysis-xbox-360-poised-to-pass-wii-in-us-sales-by-years-end/

"Poised" its not same thing like passed. So still no one gave me fact that X360 sold more than Wii in US.

I'm in the process of finding ZhugeEX's resetera post on it but if the ~2 million gap between the two from May 2013 (the Xbox 360 was discontinued April 2016) and with the Xbox 360 selling 647K November 2013 (no recorded Wii numbers) then I can't put two and two together for you.



Kerotan on 13 January 2019
Miyamotoo said:
Train wreck said:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/analysis-xbox-360-poised-to-pass-wii-in-us-sales-by-years-end/

"Poised" its not same thing like passed. So still no one gave me fact that X360 sold more than Wii in US.

Do you want to make a bet. Because I shouldn't have to do your research for you.