Squilliam said:
Aielyn said:
What does the Xbox 360 have coming in 2011 to maintain the sales it saw in 2010? Not in terms of new hardware or price cuts, but software - the things that people buy the hardware to play. They don't even MENTION upcoming 360 titles, despite the fact that such titles are pretty much absolutely essential to making a coherent prediction.
Choice of language can be revealing. Did you notice that, rather than saying that the 360 sold nearly as well as the Wii, the phrasing was that the 360 nearly outsold the Wii? And without making mention of the Wii having a weaker year, either.
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What does the Xbox 360 have coming?
- Kinect updates and Kinect avatar chat/group chat.
- Obviously some Live thingies.
- Forza: Kinect, which looks quite promising if unproved as the 2nd major motion racing game this gen.
- Buncha random Kinect games from Japan, mechs etc.
- Gears of War 3 / maybe Halo.
- Buncha Rare games and some other unannounced 1st party projects
- Lotsa 3rd party multiplats
- Smattering of smaller PC/360 sexclusives
- Rumours of a Live cable service.
- Some unannounced western Kinect games and that Star Wars 1 which was delayed to Q4
- Maybe a price cut?
You know equaling the Wii would require the 360 to sell exactly the same number of units. Outselling the Wii has quite a range of possible numbers. So it is better to say that the Wii nearly got passed than it is to say that the Wii nearly got equalled. Arguably they could have also said that the 360 sold as well. But I seriously doubt you'd have liked that either.
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I wasn't actually asking for an answer to it in here. I was pointing out that this is something that should be discussed in an analysis. The questions I asked in here were rhetorical.
The point about the language wasn't that equalling Wii sales is a likely result. The point was that the choice of comparison reveals the writer's attitude. A balanced observation would be that the 360 almost matched the Wii for sales. 360-preference would lead, as it did in this case, to the 360 almost beating the Wii. Wii-preference would lead to a comment that it failed to keep up with the Wii. An analysis should be balanced, not biased.
