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Kenology on 26 August 2012
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ryuzaki57 said:
Kenology said:
ryuzaki57 said:
A survey conducted on a such short period of time is meaningless, especially with no big releases on Sony's systems. I look forward the same survey the week Tales of Xillia 2 releases.

If marketshare was calculated year to date it would still be heavily skewed toward Nintendo.  Of course, if you cherrypick one specific week when Xillia 2 releases, like the week in question here, the graph would skew in Sony's direction a bit.  The best metric is YTD and Nintendo would surely have the majority of the market.

Ahah very interesting reply my friend! I've just made some calculations on Sony (left) - Nintendo (right) market share in Japan.

HW  YTD 2012 33% - 67%

SW YTD 2012 44% - 53%

HW FY 2011 40% - 59%

SW FY 2011 53% - 43%

You'll agree that a full year or 12 sliding months are a fairer comparison, because it corrects seasonality. Well, in both cases, Sony wins on software (because PS3 has a strong sept. to dec. period). With games like ToX2 or RE6 to come, FY 2012 will surely be no different. But it's true that Sony can't catch up on hardware since Vita doesn't make up for the decline in PSP sales. Furthermore, Sony's systems and PS3/PSP/Vita games are more expensive than Nintendo's, so Sony might actually have the biggest share in value, but unfortunately I can't prove that.

Thanks to you, the2real, and Kasz for looking into the numbers.  So yeah, heavily skewed in Nintendo's favor.  Sony won software FY 2011 but even with RE6 and ToX2 coming out, I'm not sure that'll push them over Nintendo in terms of software with NSMB2 legging it out, Animal Crossing, and NSMBU on the horizon.