@krik,
Look I'm not trying to piss in your cheerios here man. I think the comparison is interesting, I just think you presented it in an extremely slanted fashion (deliberately or not) and as you probably noticed I have no problem pointing that out and highlighting what I think is a better comparison. You don't have to use it and you don't have to like it...I'm really not concerned with changing your mind.
@ils411
Including launches for the 360 is just as useless. The point is that a launch period is not a sales spike we will ever see more than once and if you want to compare sales levels it just skews the data upwards for the newer consoles.
I fully agree that there are issues with considering sales of the PS2 when the PS3 isn't available, but thats not what I was saying the comparison should be so your argument is kind of moot. Your the first person to mention this idea of a sales comparison entirely during a period that only one console was out in that region. As I said, the best method is to pick a date after the PS3 is out in all regions. You can even use krik's method of doing it per region if you move it up by about 2-3 weeks in each region to avoid including outlier data from the launch.
As evidenced by your last point in your post I think we actually agree here. I think the one thing you missed was that my last post wasn't meant to support the idea of using the first launch date for a WW comparison as that would still include some of the same problems anyways like launch spikes etc...
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