| RubberWhistleHistle said: seriously, i have been watching the back and forth between you two, and he is 100% right that you are missing the context. you are focusing on wii u and harping on it when its about wii u AND xbone. the discussion is, "can the ps4 outsell both combined?" i understand that you are focusing on one aspect, that the holiday boost doesnt mean much if the sales are low, i totally get it, BUT.. this is the point: ps4 has been having trouble outselling both combined in the past three to four weeks (as aielyn already described) so the wii u having a bigger boost than the ps4 is going to make it that much more difficult for sony to have 50%+ marketshare during the holiday. THAT is the point. |
I will no longer respond to him, but I will respond to you.
I know what the threads topic is about. "if the PS4 can outsell both combined".
Someone, not even sure if it was him anymore, made a comment and amongst all the other points the person made, which i agree with; the person also said that nintendo consoles get a higher holiday boost than other platforms. I alo kinda agree with this just looking at past years performance. However, I was simply pointing out, which still ties directly to the context of this thread; that a bigger boost to a poorly selling console wouldn't make a difference in the grand scheme of things. As a way of saying that it wouldn't push wiiU sales in such a way as to offset the PS4 outselling both the wiiU and XB1 combined.
So how exactly is that talking outta context? is it cause i singled out the wiiU? Well, it just happens to be that the whole extra boost point made was something that i looked at from a different perspective. But my somehow saying that turned into something entirely different.
Now onto the point yu have made now... Yes PS4 has been having trouble outselling both the XB1 and wiiU combined these past few weeks, but that is based on numbers from VGC that we now at least know has under tracked the PS4 by as much as 700k. When the numbers gte adjusted, there is no saying that this point you just made will still hold true.
But even if it does, I think its bad form basing a thesis on 3 weeks worth of a trend and then just ignore 6 months worth of data. And my emphasis on using the average of the past monthsin this year up till now is simple, in this industry there will be up sand downs. Be it a price drop or a new game or any combination of factors. This month it may give a boost to one platform and the next it could boost the other. At the end of the day, everyone will have their own day or days in the sun depending on how many of thee factors they can have in their own favor in the course of this year. So using averages we can put everyone on a hypothetical level playing feild. Which is what I have been trying to do.
I agree that the wiiU may have a bigger boost... and that it may the PS4 accomplishing this feat difficult, and honestly I have no clue what will happen in the next 4 months.
