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superchunk on 08 May 2012
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crissindahouse said:
superchunk said:
BF3 is awesome and I love BF. However, I don't think it stole market-share but simply had a lot of sales to those who also play COD.

I'm pretty sure COD is still selling the same amount every year... and any residual decline is more likely due to the fact that the game is stale.

You'd have to see steady overall declines in last years MW3 and this years BO2 to argue that BF3 had any market-share related effect.

i believe you have no clue what they were saying or what market share is.

Market share is the share of the whole market.

I think BF3 mostly overlapped the same consumers of COD. Therefore no real market-share 'capture' from COD.

Now if you take market-share like VGC does and just count each sale as independent, then yes COD's market-share naturally went down and the BF3 sales were added. However, that is just wrong. The FPS market didn't gain 15m new users. COD didn't lose 15m distinct sales.

Just like PS3 and 360 don't really have the % of market-share really labelled on VGC home page. Instead you really need to account for multiple product owners and reduce the actual market's overall size to create a real sense of market share.