Viper on 16 February 2007
Chubear said:I think people have remember that the 360 IS more expensive than the Wii and even if the Wii was to sell the exact same amount of consoles as the 360 on any given time period, it'll still be behind the 360 in monutery figures. What I'm trying to say is, it's simple math. The wii has to sell about 16000 units to compete with Microsoft selling 10000 units, to compete with MS selling 20000 units the Wii would have to sell 32000 units etc etc. So until such an instance occures, it's really short sighted for anyone to think that the wii can match units sells 1 for 1. That's just not reality. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The only time this would matter is in regards to a companies stock price.
Direct revenue comparisons won't work very well in that Nintendo doesn't publicly present revenue based on individual platforms, just an accumulated revenue on all hardware. MS doesn't differentiate between Xbox360 hardware revenue and Xbox hardware revenue either on financial reports.
You see this same misguided approach from NPD as it presents software sales ranking based on sales revenue instead of units sold.
Unit sales are still the best barometer of measure.
Profit is a different animal entirely.
