Demotruk said:
Yakuzaice said:
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Order of Magnitude: "a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10"
I was the one who made the comment, I was talking about lifetime.
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If we are going to be so literal as to use a factor of 10 as an order of magnitude for video game sales, then the Wii version still wasn't on the same order of magnitude back when Fifa 08 was relevant because it didn't hit one million till this year.
You were answering someone who asked why Fifa 11 Wii wasn't selling like the HD systems. That was obviously about the first week because that is the only data we have. My point was Fifa Wii never sold like the HD systems, even three years ago.
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I deliberately used the phrase "order of magnitude" in place of "nearly as much" or "on a similar level" to avoid arguments like this. The use of the phrase is correct, if the Wii version was selling less than 1/10 of the other versions, as it does today, it would not be selling on the same order of magnitude. It did back then. My mistake was assuming that people understood the phrase.
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It's a phrase that has it's place, and describing video game sales aren't it. It is similar to decimated in that people rarely mean it literally in everyday conversation.
Anyways, arguing semantics is pointless. It doesn't matter that Fifa Wii was able to limp to the same order of magnitude that the HD versions sold. The relevance in the video game market is pretty much nil. It might do it this year as well, but it wouldn't change the fact that it still isn't "seliing on the wii like it is on the HD systems" as the person who kickstarted this said.
