Japan Sales - Media Create , Famitsu & Dengeki

[naruball]

Shadow1980 said:

naruball said:

First of all, thanks for the great posts. It's nice to see someone putting some effort to provide evidence and back up their claims instead of replying as if they're tweeting , as you said (not referring to anyone in particular). 

I too strongly dislike the whole "tl;dr" attitude. Having said that, bena has a point. The comparison is invalid, but not completely invalid. It's not comparing animals with oranges, but it's more like apples and oranges. Invalid, but not completely invalid. 

Thanks. I'm glad some people have the patience to read my posts. I'm not exactly one for keeping things short and concise. I'm all about getting in-depth when I feel the need to.

I do have to ask, though, if Zero's argument is "not completely invalid" then that implies that something is valid about it, so what is it that's not making his PS4-Wii U comparisons completely invalid? I'm not seeing it. From my POV, his comparison is either invalid or it's not, i.e., a binary choice.

See, the way I see it, had he compared first 3month sales of Pokemon Blue/Red to 3 days of sales of Infamous SS, it'd be completely invalid.

But his comparison is about:

a. same gen consoles,

b. same time frame/ number of sales

c. sales of consoles, not a handheld and a conole,

d. comparison of actual video game consoles (not mobile phones and handhelds)

e. things that are not free (i.e. not comparing sales of flappy bird/angry birds with Halo)

f. comparison starting from the launch of each console's sales (i.e.  not any three months of wiiu and ps4 sales).

And the list goes on. 

The fact that his comparison does not take into account the holiday boost makes it invalid. The fact that it compares two things that are similar in the aforementioned ways, it makes it not "completely invalid".