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curl-6 on 22 October 2013
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Wonktonodi said:
curl-6 said:
Wonktonodi said:
curl-6 said:

Selling the most is not a victory if you reach that number long after the next generation inherits the market, that's like the 2nd place runner passing the winner after the finish line.

no. it's like the first place runner stopping before the race is over. :)

you want to compare this to a race? set distance? set time? how about, run as far as you can until you can't run anymore?

people get so caught up in the metphores that they use the rules of the metaphores that dont apply.

Those sales still make money. You can bet if the wii was still selling well nintendo would not have dsiscontinued it.  You want a race metaphore? it ran a marathon like a sprint. It ran a relay but slowwed before passing the baton. It gave up.

Put whatever subjective rules you want to make youself happy by those results. That won't change that the ps3 might outsell the wii.

A generation is not a marathon though.

There's a window in which a set of consoles have primacy. That window closes once they are replaced, because after that the next gen becomes the focus and inherits the market. 

when did gen 6 end? the launch of the xbox? the lauch of the ps3 and the wii? or when ps2 finally stopped outselling the xbox360 and ps3 (combined or not combined)?  Wikipedea considers it 2009. 4 years after the lauch of the 360 and 3 after the lauch of the ps3 and wii and says the ps2 sold long after the generation ended but much longer than right after the lauch of all the sucessors and when they were he "focus" of the market. and not only that though we don't just say the sales of the ps2 when the generation "ended" we compare the total sales.

sales are not a race they are sales the race metaphor is so bad because races have set distances to cover sales totals don't have that. Even generations don't have that. Just because a console hasn't lauched yet or stopped selling before the competition doesn't mean a generation hasn't started or has already ended.  generations aren't set like people generations either. they overlap for a few years usually.

businsses want more sales (not even getting into the losses the sony and microsft have taken) than less. fastes for a set period of time is nice but more in the long run is better. 

  the 7th gen will end when it ends. It's not over beacuse you say it is. It's not over because the wii stopped selling. It's won't be over the day the xbox one launches. It will end after that.

Gen 6 ended when PS3 and Wii launched, just like the Gen 7 will end about a month from now.