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Kasz216 on 26 August 2012
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the2real4mafol said:
Kasz216 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.

Well, being VGchartz it's easy enough to check.  PSP should help out Sony a lot on the YTD though being a bit of a confounding variable looking foward.

http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2012/Japan/

Platform Yearly (change) Total
3DS 2,851,225 (-34%)
PS3 737,672 (-52%)
PSP 524,354 (-74%)
PSV 432,390 (-1%)
Wii 355,170 (-59%)
DS 53,386 (-92%)
X360 42,202 (-63%)
Total 4,996,399(-50%)

Nintendo marketshare for the Year - 65.2%

Sony Market Share - 33.9%

So, yeah, pretty heavy in Nintendo's favor, and not looking great for Sony considering the PSV doesn't seem to quite be the PSP to put it gently.

Without the 3DS, sony would have alot more market share. Nintendo and sony would probably be similiar when it comes to marketshare

I don't get your point... the 3DS is a product that will keep selling.

Unlike the PSP, which is falling off.