Do these sales numbers surprise you? [Sony Still Dominant?!?]

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jjseth said:

trestres said:
This feels like SDF, therefore fails completely.

Actually more like NDF to me.

 

I read and lurk on the Sony gaming forums quite a bit, specifically in the Socom forums. blykmik is one of the highest respected posters there because he puts alot of thought into his posts, has great ideas and is a positive member to the community.

I haven't posted much on here lately just because of some posters who will fight tooth and nail about how great the Wii is and then laugh at everythign Sony does even if it's a good thing, such as Blu-Ray beating HDDVD. (ie. LOL BD won't win because of digital downloads).

Lately the sniping towards Sony has dropped, but once someone dares to speak about how Nintendo may not be the most dominant gaming company by a long shot a thread quickly becomes filled with anti-sony/Pro-nintendo posts from the Nintendo faithful here.

And there may be a very good reason why PS2 software isn't selling as good as it used to when looking at the charts. Trade-in's and those sold on ebay, etc are not counted into software sales since they initially were released. Many who have bought a PS2 can find a very vast game library to enjoy by buying used and not new. So obviously it's not in the charts since they were sold before.

He's constantly come back and replied respectfully to all who were negative, posting lolcats, sniping at him, and has not fired off any cheap shots at the nintendo fanboys. I see his point of where he is coming from and it perfectly makes sense to me. Many nintendo fans will agree that graphically the Wii is like a souped up PS2 with motion controls, but still not in the same ball park when talking about graphics on the 360 or PS3.
Of course, now I expect those to come back and say how "I'm a Sony Fanboy". Well, I'm not. Yes, I do have a PS3. But I also have a 360. If I were a true sony fanboy, I wouldn't dare be caught owning a game system that is a competitor to Sony. My TV wouldn't be a Hitachi and my DVD player wouldn't be a Toshiba and my receiver wouldn't be an onkyo if I were a "true" sony fanboy.

Besides, should all of you nintendo fanboys be busy playign SSBB and not arguing on the web? I mean is it like the second coming of Jesus to some here, so I don't know why you'd lose out on gaming time just to post in a thread about a guy who brought up some interesting questions and solid data. *Flawed in Nintendo Fanboys eyes because Nintendo no longer has a monster lead in this case*

Now whose playing the victim?

 

If whoever wouldn't bother to make foolish, Sony fanboy posts with flamebait in the title, daring Wii fans to flame him, then he wouldn't have everyone with half a brain on this website jumping in his posts to say he's wrong.

 

Here's the thing, no matter how you soapbox against this site and it's "nintendo fanboys" you can't seriously expect that to fool anyone into believe Sony is the dominant force in the gaming industry? You're adding in the PS2. Your telling us that the "Sony family" is winning, are you serious? That's spin, my friend. Sony uses that in every press release they put out. Nobody buys it from them and nobody buys it from you.

 

Saying that somehow the Sony family matters, and the fact that the PS3 is the worst selling system, somehow doesn't relate to Sony's "dominance" of the gaming industry, is laughable. Your using those numbers out of context, because they are obviously the only ones that anyone in the world could possibly tally to make Sony look like its not one big giant failure from a static point of view("snapshot" is a more difinitive term).

 

Doesn't that just destory your argument, the fact that you have to look at it out of context and pretend your in a vaccume for them to prove that Sony is "dominating" anything.

 

If that were true, then I could show you the front page of this website and say "360 is dominating the PS3." If you claim sony "dominates" the industry, then you must admit that the 360 is dominating the PS3, and trends, or obvious and immediate future implications are of no consequence and musn't or shouldn't be considered.

 

Your trying to piss down our backs and tell us its raining, and then insessantly bitching about why we aren't holding our heads up and catching it in our mouths.

 

Just because you are smart, and try stand up for your rubbish you cherrypicked, to give it some appearance of validity, doesn't mean that you know what your talking about. Every sentance coming out of the mouths of the people or person who wrote this topic or any defenders of it, is complete spin in Sony's favor, and none except adamant supporters of the Sony brand would dare attach their good names to this garbage.

 

Epic failure, but we'll keep talking about it, because it takes the sting off, right?