Xenostar said:
gum said:
Nowadays there are so many people on video games forums speaking about sales, the future of consoles and still so few of them seem to understand the most basic concepts about this market.
Comparative installed bases is certainly the most important thing to consider to know the real situation of a console in terms of sales because that's the key point that will decide the third party support of a console in the future as they will obviously compare the situation of each platform to see which are their best options among them. But yet it's incredible how few so called analysts (lol), journalists or forums experts that talk about sales every week, predict the fate of consoles with very definitive opinions seem to understand that the situation of a console with an installed base of for example 5 millions with the competiton at 0 can certainly not be compared to the one of a console with an installed based of 5 while the competition is at 20 or more.
It's very funny to see that in some message boards like NeoGAF where people are too pedant to use VG Chartz numbers for their meaningful analysis there is pretty much noone to understand that the situation of the WiiU for this manner can certainly not be compared to the GC or Vita for instance. And because noone seems to understand that forums these days are just incredibly full of pointless analysis.
And I'm not even talking about the concept of killer apps that the same people don't seem to get either...
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So are we to presume you think the Wii U is not competing against PS3 and 360, because it has an arbitary label of being 8th Gen. Because youd be wrong.
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The WiiU is of course competing against PS3 and 360 but so will be PS4 and X1 which is another point that many seem to forget especially when so many big "next gen" games are in fact cross gen. Whatever, PS4 and X1 will be the ones to be in direct competion against the WiiU during most of its life cycle so of course those are the ones that matters, PS3 and 360 won't.
