Is the Xbox One a failure?

[Zackasaurus-rex]

Ka-pi96 said:

Zackasaurus-rex said:

It's losing massive marketshare relative to the 360's gains, so MS certainly think it is. Consoles are selling faster and earlier because of today's early adopter culture, but MS are losing brutally where it counts: Percentage of the market.

It's not massive at all though. In the US it has about 37.1% marketshare compared to 39.4% for the 360. Globally it has 28.6% compared to the 360's 31.3%

Yeah, it's dropped. But 2-3% is hardly a massive drop.

You're counting the Wii, which is effectively a separate market except for perhaps a few percentage points. The only thing that matters to MS, other than profitability, is marketshare versus PlayStation. Nintendo are largely a non-factor in this rivalry.

 

This is why we have to consider our data qualitatively in social science, lest we do misleading things like ignore the Wii to Wii U plummet.