I'm not even going to attempt to penetrate CrazzyMan's willful misunderstanding of the data to try to convince him of the truth. But I will point out two particular misinterpretations of the data:
He said, "look at this, PS3 is selling as well as the PS2 did!"
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=------&weeks=80
It should be obvious to all that the PS3 graph has simply had a Christmas spike earlier than the PS2 graph does, and the PS3 sales are already leveling out and beginning to fall behind the PS2 graph (again).
[edit: added graph] http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=PS2®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=------&weeks=109
He said, "look at this, PS3 is selling BETTER than the Wii or PS2 did!"
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii®1=Europe&cons2=PS3®2=Europe&cons3=PS2®3=Europe&weeks=50
Well, that does look pretty impressive, until you realize that AGAIN the graph is skewed by the unsynchronized Christmas spikes.
http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php?cons1=Wii®1=Europe&cons2=PS3®2=Europe&cons3=PS2®3=Europe&weeks=66
CrazzyMan, is this just you being a blinkered fanboy, seeing only what you want to see, or are you deliberately being intellectually dishonest? [edit: These two graphs] -- seeming plausible only in a certain limited timeframe while being exposed as ridiculous in a somewhat bigger one -- leads me to wonder if you aren't doing it on purpose.
[edit2: apparently, in IE7 "®" [edit4: which is to say, "& r e g" ... excuse me while I go cry] is getting turned into the (r) symbol in my links, but not in Firefox. Whatever. I tried to fix it for a few minutes but now I'm bored so you can all switch to FF or just suck it up.]
[edit3: apparently, making edit2 in FF fixed it, while editing it in IE7 is presumably what caused the problem in the first place. So, yeah.]
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My advice to fanboys: Brag about stuff that's true, not about stuff that's false. Predict stuff that's likely, not stuff that's unlikely. You will be happier, and we will be happier.
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