| Max King of the Wild said: Because your last post is completely absurd. You compare Ps3 sales in May to Wii U's sales in December. If you compare Ps3 sales in December to Wii U's you get a better picture. Or better yet, take the 600k launch in EU and then reduce it by 50% instead of the 80% then increase sales again 3 weeks in a row instead of declining them. |
A) I meant this post, you ignore that constantly: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5219859
B) I can only compare data we have. Sure, we could play what if, but reality is a bitch. As I prefer the scientific approach I don't think abpout some fairytales, but instead look at facts. Fact is, sony probably had some manufacturing issues and launched later in europe. If they had designed the PS3 different they could have probably avoided these issues, but then we would have not the system we have now. So the data we have is influenced by the decisions Sony made, as the data we have about WiiU is influenced by the decisions of Nintendo. We have no way to change that. I could also play the what-if-game for WiiU, but that is something I want to avoid, it is delusional to make stuff up. I also can't pull data out of my ass, like second-quarter shipments for WiiU. We all will have to wait for that.
So I can only work with existing data. And that shows what it shows, I will not spin it with what-if-games. And look, even with holiday as support in the US and japan the PS3 sold worse.
Also you say a launch at the holidays would look better for PS3. Maybe. But maybe people also decided in these 3 extra-months they want a PS3 and that inflated the data. We don't know. So unless you can make contact to a alternate reality where that happened we should stop with this fairytale-stuff.
And is it really so hard to admit, that WiiU sold better initially. Yes this includes all the circumstances - like it always does. And it should be easy, as the WiiU now clearly sells below the PS3, even the PS3 without europe. As my graph shows.
So you're invited to talk about the abysmal sales of WiiU in my thread with the real data as a base: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152379
I do it, I talk always about the bad sales of the WiiU. Without inventing numbers for a theoretical WiiU that launched with WiiSportsResortU (that would be one of the what-ifs for WiiU). But all that doesn't mean I ignore sales-data for the first weeks.
So is it so hard to look at the sales-data and to admit the WiiU initially sold better than the PS3? That's what the thread is about.
