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Jay520 on 20 July 2012
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Conegamer said:
Jay520 said:
Conegamer said:
Jay520 said:
Conegamer said:
Hmm...I wouldn't say sales are improving. Wait until mid-August when NSMB2 and the 3DS XL launches and we'll be back to where we were beforehand. Like, 6-7k or so...


If the PSV's sales do drop in August, that still wouldn't negate the fact that they are improving now. I don't understand your logic.

I'm saying it's a short effect. Yes, it's improving now (but the numbers are still horrific), but when it does decrease to below 10k, people will forget about this slight boost. Sorta like the Wii price-cut last year. Sure, sales were increased, but I wouldn't say the situation improved. That has to be a long-term effect, and it's too early to tell that yet.


But they still are improving, which is the complete opposite of your first sentence in the post I quoted.

No, they're increasing (though they'll have gone down again this week and dropped WW WoW by 25%, to below 48k, it's second lowest-ever figure, so that's hardly an increase), but not improving. An improvement is a long-term thing, whereas an increase is a short-term thing. We can't tell if the situation is improving, if it can't sustain sales for a fair few months. So the 3DS' situation has improved, because it's a long-term effect.



No, you don't regulate the definition of 'improving' and 'increasing'. Improving is not, and does not imply, long term improvement. Nor does improvement imply the improvement of the 'situation'. I don't know where you got your definition of 'improvement' and how you've distinguished it as an extreme of 'increasing' but that definition is just wrong. Improvement is simply to become better. It does not have to become good. Just better. You really don't have to bring the 3DS into this. It doesn't take a comparison to see that selling more than before is clearly an 'improvement'. Whether it's long-term or short-term, whether its substantial or minuscule, & whether it helps the overall situation or not doesn't affect the fact that it is improving.