What if Nintendo never launched the Wii?...(article).

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griffinA said:

theprof00 said:
you guys are defining things the way you would like them to be defined in order to prove your point.

Puffy, you're talking about sales, and darius, you're saying the same thing.
The industry is based on revenue, not on profits.
It is based on how much people spend, how much is tied up in the industry. Sure there would be less sales, but the market would be bigger.
You do have a very good point, both of you, but my statement is 100% accurate. You're looking at the idea tangentially.

This contradicts itself. The size of the market is based on how many customers their are. That's why people always talk about Nintebdo "expanding the market," they're drawing in more customers. How can the market be bigger if thier are less customers?

This is a dispute over what defines "The Market." You could make an argument that it should be number of customers, but since business is all about the money, almost all talk of how big a market is refers to how much revenue it generates.

I don't think that there's a business out there that wouldn't dump a third of its customer base if it meant they could double the revenue from their remaining customers.