Nintendo: We Are Responsible For 99% Of Game Industry Growth In 2008

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celine said:

bdbdbd said:
@Puffy: If Sony and M$ were flat individually and Nintendo up, then there's no spin.
If Sony was down, M$ up and Nintendo up, then there's a spin, since two instances contributed to the growth.

Of course, this is a pretty standard way of looking at it, since all the companies make the spin.

Problem is that the real battle is Nintendo business model against MS/Sony business model. DS/Wii vs PSP/Xbox360/PS3(/PC) so there isn't really a spin there only we don't know what happen precisely on single platforms.

 

 

This is the standard way the companies look at the market. "us" vs "them". Any company takes the same viewpoint.

Problem with the model is, that it takes the average instead of the individuals. For example if Sony had experienced negative growth of 1 billion and M$ and Nintendo had 1b each, both could show they accounted for 100% of the growth. Then again, i'm interested seeing the numbers in revenue because of the 360 pricecut, that definately cut down its revenue per unit sold (also, the relative number of games sold at budget  price account largely to the revenue too).