the_dengle said:
Your logic is simply too basic. It takes no actual factors into account, simply applying some old pattern you saw to a new situation and spitting out a number. Sony went from 150 mil with PS2 to 75 mil with PS3 -- their next console will be a 50% drop, too! PS4 will sell under 40 million. Microsoft went from 25 million to 75 million, tripling their sales. Next XBox will sell 225 million, right??? |
I used four distinct data points covering a span of almost twenty five years. That is more then sufficient to establish that there is a existing trend, and to factor out short term anomalies. Your problem isn't with the methodology. You just don't like the implications. Which is that Nintendo is exhausting its core player base over the coarse of time. You could argue that the trend will abate as compared to those four consoles if you could provide proof that Nintendo has shifted from its core philosophy. As compared to those consoles, but let us just be honest Nintendo is doing business as per the usual.
You have plenty of annecdotal evidence that what I am saying is actually the truth. Based solely on the trends that have come to pass in these forums over the past five years. I have watched the Nintendo fan base literally atrophy and dwindle. So many have switched allegiances during the past generation, relegated their Nintendo console to secondary status, and have just plain thrown in the towel.
The only joke is fourteen million may actually be overly generous on my part. I am thinking that laughter on your part is the nervous kind. That is right just keep dismissing it, and hopefully it will all go away.
