koffieboon on 16 January 2009
| TWRoO said: NJ5 is correct. The total industry growth (in the USA, in $US) was $3.35 billion over 2007. Nintendo's own growth was $3.31 billion. The combined growth of the rest of the industry was tiny. ---------------- The thing is, a number of other companies could have produced the same chart forthemselves.... In Nintendo's chart it is perfectly feasable that Activision had a growth of maybe $500mil - $1bil.... but that growth is hidden in that 1% because all companies minus Ninty and Activision made a loss equal to that of Activisions gains. If Activision made the chart for themselves, they could in fact claim to make up 30% of industry growth.... It certainly is not as hilarious a pie chart though. --------- Check out this scenario for instance. Total industry growth - $3.35 billion Nintendo Growth - $3.31 billion Activ'/Blizz' growth - $0.8 billion Microsoft growth - $0.5 billion Elect'Arts decline - $0.3 billion Sony decline - $1 billion So Nintendo "makes up" 99% of growth, but Activision-Blizzard can still "make up" 25% of growth too, but when you lump them all together, they cancel each other out. |
Well, Nintendo is talking about their platforms revenue, so third party developers are already a part of these numbers.
Of course it is still a misleading statistic, unless Microsoft and Sony both saw almost zero growth in 2008. In that case the pie chart gives a pretty decent picture on the revenue development for all 3 hardware manufacturers.
