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TWRoO on 13 January 2009
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Groucho said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

How on earth does VGChartz (not its community, just ignore the forums) ignore the Ps2? Where do you want it to be added?

It is on the worldwide (all of them) weekly page, on an equal basis as any other system.

The market share in the Other HW has Ps2 included (weekly market share)

 

It is lacking from the front page, because that is where they track total market share.

 

The only place I see the Ps2 being needed, is in the "HW ending 3rd January 2009" section. It doesn't have the Ps2. Still, there's almost certainly a reason for that (and I guess that is that ioi gets less data for it).

You just don't get the whole "marketshare" concept, do you?

 

I think it is you who is missing the point.

The front page bars show generational marketshare... this is very different from time based marketshare.... If you were to use only PS2 sales from a certain point then that is time based, and as such all other consoles have to be put to that same time base.

So for instance, if you were to have PS2 marketshare using sals from the Wii's launch... you would also have to take out any sales of the X360 from before then, as well as the 2 weeks PS3 had in Japan before then, which is confusing to those who are wishing to compare the current generation consoles.

The PS2 should not be included in the 7th generational marketshare because it is a 6th gen console.
And changing the marketshare to time based confuses things because people want to compare the 3 current consoles.

The PS2 should not be put into those bars.... but yes, it should be put into the "weekly hardware" box, because it still sells after all.