| Intrinsic said: Sigh... averages. From january 2014 till end of july, using VG worldwide numbers, the wiiU has sold ~1.4M. If you divide that by 7 january to july thn you have 200k per month (this is an average). Yes this is more than what i said, but what i said for the PS4 is also a LOT less than what it actually does (PS4s average this year is actually at 685k/month). I was just rying to make a point. I shaved off 150k for the wiiU to make my point and shaved off 180k for the PS4. Real numbers would be something like (using 300% for PS4 and 500% for wiiU)... PS4= 2.02M/month@300% boost and wiiU = 1M/month@500% boost. and I was not talking about the wiiU+XB1. I jutst pointed out that i do not get this boost thing people always talk about in relation to wiiU sales as if they forget what average the boost is even affaecting. I singled out the wiiU, and went on to say what I dont understand and gave an example. Yet you are here talking about context? |
So what you're saying is that you used wrong numbers to make a point?
And nobody here is trying to argue that the Wii U's boost will mean it's the best-selling system during the holidays - if you did understand the context, then you constructed a strawman to argue against. Even you don't deny the idea of the Wii U getting a stronger boost (percentage-wise), yet you try to make out as though this is some sort of false claim made by me (and others), in order to denigrate the Wii U and those who are optimistic about it.
EDIT: Oh, and regarding your "averages"... you conveniently ignore the fact that situations change. In the first four months, the PS4 had an average of 813k per month, and the Wii U had an average of 156k per month. In the three more recent months, the PS4 had an average of 565k per month, and the Wii U had an average of 271k per month. Do you see the difference? Where the PS4 was outselling the Wii U by more than 4x (total for PS4 was more than 5x that for Wii U), it is now outselling the Wii U by just a little over 100%... and that's including May, which was prior to release of Mario Kart 8. If you restrict attention to June and July, PS4 is at 513k per month, and Wii U at 278k per month.
Note that all numbers were taken with weeks ending in the respective month - so I'm using 28th of December to 26th of April for the first four months, for instance. This also means the most recent week of data is not included.
