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Mummelmann on 12 November 2014
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RolStoppable said:
Mummelmann said:

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PS: As a post to show that the 3DS does not follow sales norms of the past decade; using global numbers is perfectly fine, using Japan only tells only part of the story, especially during a temporary boost like we're seeing now. Or do you also think that the best measure for the Wii U's global future was how it did in Japan without competition, for instance?

I am not interested in your personal history, so I removed that part of your post.

Using global numbers is not fine to draw conclusions for the Japanese market (which is the only thing the_dengle was talking about), because different regions differ in their historical sales patterns. Most notably Europe and the rest of the world have much longer tails for console sales than Japan and America. Your concluding question is what you have to ask yourself, because you are the person who made a flawed comparison.

You seem to think that I have contributed into making the topic into "3DS is doing the worst out of the bunch" and then you remove the bits disproving that on my part because you're "not interested", then why make that point to begin with?

It seems like you're just out to make me look silly in some way or other regardless.

User A says console A is doing fine and is following market trends and historic sales patterns, I use global figures to show that this is not so in the big picture. Besides; where does it say that he's talking about Japan only as a response?

"Because comparing anything to the international phenomenon that was the DS is just looking for something to be disappointed in. And it's obvious that the "problem handheld" in Japan is not the one on its way to at least 20 million LT sales."

"Comparing anything to the international phenomenon" is pretty far from "Japanese phenomenon only" "I was just illustrating that typically consoles peak in their third year and then decline steadily from there, and that even the mighty DS was not an exception to this trend." where does that it applies only to Japan? There is no indication that he's isolating the 3DS to only Japan in his claims that it is following normal sales patterns, even though this is a Japanese sales thread. Why not let him answer himself instead of doing it for him?

Besides; the DS did not show the same sales pattern as the 3DS in Japan either.