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DaRev said:
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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.

If the 3DS was not out yet, Nintendo's sales would not be as high. I don't think the DS would be selling like that, if the 3DS still was not out yet. The 3DS takes up alot of marketshare on it's own, taking over HALF of consoles sold in japan, according to your graph. So the market would be alot smaller without the 3DS

Even without the 3DS, Nintendo sales would still be as high because the DS was the best selling hardware in Japan for years on end.

Cleverly what Nintendo has done is two have to versions of the same system, in the 3DS and 3DS XL, available for consumers. While the PSP and Vita are cannibalising each others market share, never mind having to compete against the 3DS. Plus, because the Vita is seen as a handheld PS3, its sales are further cannibalised by the PS3!

Nintendo just has to sit back and collect the market share, 70% and counting.

They sell because Nintendo released the same thing multiple times and for some reason, people just bought it. It's similiar to Apple, where they release an iPhone and sell really well, and then a new one comes out next year, and it does just as well. It's a quite clever tactic from both companies. It's something sony isn't able to do 



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