Why do people care who sales more consoles during a generation?

[NobleTeam360]

Miguel_Zorro said:

NobleTeam360 said:

No seriously why do some of you care that much if Sony sells more than another system and vice versa with MS and Nintendo (although it's mostly sony people who harp on this). Do you get some sort of satisfaction if Sony/MS/ or Nintendo do better or what I really don't get it. I'm sure someone on here will say this is a sales website we should care I get that but some people take it way out of hand. 

I don't think it's "Mostly Sony people", but on topic, there are a few reasons:

1) The good reason - we want our console to be viable in the long term, to maintain support from develops with new game releases, and so on.  The bigger the install base, the more developer support.  Consoles that don't sell very many units will see the flow of new games dry up quickly, making the console we bought useless.

2) The fun reason - we made some sort of a bet about how many units a console will sell, and we want to see if our predictions are right.

3) The sad but most common reason - For some who could only buy one console, it wasn't perhaps the easiest decision. Some choose to favour one console over others.  People want to be validated in that decision.  One way of that validation is their console of choice selling the most - it's a form of approval from others.  It's a self confidence thing.

4) The funniest reason - some people don't actually care at all, they just play the role to troll the people in group #3.

I like the 4th reason.