Antabus said:
How is it superficial? It is far less superficial than just to assume that because one company has grown, it has made the industry grow. You have to think about the big picture. How many of that 60m growth are actually expanding the industry? How many of those people are the people who bought PS2 last gen? I guess you don't know that answer and yet you are willing to say that all of those 60m are growing the industry. I just gave you another way to look at it. Both are equally wrong and it is really up to you how you want to see it. I am not telling you how you should see it. I feel exactly the same way about you. That petty comment of yours just reinforces my initial thoughts about you. Taking part in the conversation would require to know what the people are really talking about. You clearly failed on that one. |
The last figure we had was a Neilsen survey, which said 70% of Wii owners also owned a PS2. Of course this relates only to the US market, and other surveys (from both Neilsen and NPD) have shown that multiconsole ownership is dramatically higher this gen than last, though Wii also has the smallest proportional percentage of multiconsole owners (while PS3 has the largest). Either way, it shows decent growth for the entire industry on Nintendo's part, though not as massive as the GC to Wii increase would indicate. There's no actual decline that can be attributed to Nintendo at this stage though, that rests pretty much entirely on Sony's epic fall with PS3. Microsoft's made decent gains too, though I don't think they're really expanding the industry significantly (other than possibly cannibalizing some of the PC gaming marketplace)... it's far more likely Nintendo brought more actual "new" consumers into the market of the two.
Japan's a different story, though that's attributable to market wide shifts in consumer tastes (ie: handhelds have taken over). Even still, Wii managed a semi-respectable hardware figure and some amazing top software sales (it's top 10 even outperforms SFC, PS1 and PS2). And again here, we've seen the significant declines come from Sony's end, with Microsoft making a modest (if ultimately inconsequential) gain.
Europe we really don't have enough data about to really have any good insight on, though it's really the first generation Nintendo's success there has been comparable to what they've managed in America and Japan (even NES and SNES never passed 10m in Europe afaik), and while PS3's obviously way down from PS2, both it and 360 are wildly outpacing the pathetic figures GC and Xbox managed in the region. This is the first generation where Europe's really had 3 truly viable consoles, which is something that America managed first in the previous generation.
And lol at the rest. If you're just going to continue insulting me after stuffing words in my mouth, I guess our "conversation" here is over.
