kowenicki said:
theprof00 said:
kowenicki said:
pezus said:
kowenicki said:
Right, well I missed all of this.
I come back to see that Th Source thinks the 360 isn't doing great... even though it is. (nothing new)
and that Vita apparently is doing great even though it isn't? (200k is still poor, just not awful - people seem to forget that they thought the 3ds was doing bad at that level)
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Well when you expect shitty sales and get mediocre sales instead you should be pretty happy about that, shouldn't you...since it is better than you expected.
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You expected the Vita to sell shitty?
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I think he's specifically talking about your expectations.
Like above, you say 200k is poor, not awful, but people thought 3ds was bad. So, 3ds is bad, vita is poor in your own words.
Additionally, people said 3ds was bad and failing because we hadn't reevaluated the market properly. Now we can do that. We can't just call something poor simply because we called a misunderstood market poor before. It's not like people called the 3ds poor, so now we have to call the vita poor to be fair. That's like saying that previous to understanding learning disabilities, we called people stupid, so now we haev to continue to call them stupid because it would be unfair to those previously called stupid.
Vita sales, for the moment, are acceptable. They're not good, they're not great. They're within a range where people probably aren't getting fired over it.
You would be right to call them poor had the vita come out first, but since it didn't and since it's comparative to 3ds initial sales, we can accept them.
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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=141085&page=1
tell me how you would define them?
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You already know how I feel about your charts.
It's "the truth" to align the launches and combine them for psv and 3ds, but not for other consoles.
Your argument is that 3ds didn't worldwide launch until later, so having the psv worldwide numbers is "innaccurate" but really, I just think it's an excuse. Why do I think that? Because the numbers are actually a lot closer in real time than they appear in your charts. Sony could have a small price drop, or a sales boost by the saem time-frame as the 3ds WW numbers, and that would keep the numbers more in line.
While your figures are good at showing vita underperforming in a short term, on a long term, it can quickly catch up with some heavy software. Sony even notes that the conversion rate for UNit 13 from demo to game is quite high, highlighting an interest in fps on the system, and foreshadowing a very well performing CoD.
Enjoy them while they last.
EDIT: It's also important for people to note that your chart is of the "doomed" variety. A chart with really a very small difference in height making a difference in lifetime seem bigger than they are. If we extrapolate the slope of the curves, we'd see end of lifetime difference of maybe 4-10m with no price drop. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff there.
