| Aielyn said: 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. |
The numbers were irrelevant... the POINT was that a large boost of shit sales can still be shit when compared to a smaller boost of good sales. Everything you are saying outside that is just semantics and could generally go both ways.
The point is that (as I am yet again pointig out for the third time) when people say nintendo (wiiU) has bigger holiday boosts... WHICH I AGREE WITH> I wonder if they look at what is being boosted and look at what its competing against and whatever relative boost its competition will get. That was the point I was making. Don't know how this became what it is now and i made all this clear.
And isn't it weird that the basis of your things changing argument is comapring the best wiiU moths to the worst Ps4 months? Thats all well and good, but if we apply the whole boosting thing to the months you seem to be "optimistic" about; then by all means, that does mean the wiiU will be the best selling console this holiday season. If that is not what you are saying... pls tell me how that is relevant to the point i was trying to make to begin with.
oh, and as accurate as ur numbers are, did you factor in that VGC undertracked the ps4 by 700k?
