amirnetz said:
Hey - let's try to keep it civilized. "That guy" is me. And I am dead serious about this. Nothing hilarious here. In the future when I am joking, I will let you know where the funny places are. Now, even though you were rude, I will still provide you with a serious answer to the point. I hope in the future you will return in same. This thread is not about the quality of the titles or their sales figures. We are looking only at pure count of titles. I understand why you may find it strange, so let me explain that decision. The goal is not to determine which titles will sell the most. The goal is to to figure out if one of the console may be at risk of getting the perception of the "console that only gets some of the titles". One or two titles will not change anything in the equation. But if one of the consoles gets, week after week, more titles than the other console, then such a perception starts to form. Regardless if the titles are good or bad, big or small, of one genre or another – the sheer number of the exclusive titles will start taking a fatal toll on the “losing platform”. And this is what we are measuring here. When you look at it like this you may understand that one title, as big as it may be, does not change anything in this dynamic. Separately, I have answered already in details why Japan is insignificant in the global picture. Since Japan currently has only 4% of the global console HW market sales, any local events there have virtually no effect on the overall picture. See my answers to BKK2 on the topic.
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I wasn't trying to be rude. I refered to you, amirnetz, as 'this guy' not to be condesending but because I didn't remeber the name of thread creator.
You make a good point on hardware, but you shouldn't count out third party Japanese software, because they sell more software than 4%. Besides, I just did the math, and Japan has 22.17% of hardware this generation. Worth of a bit or recognition.
