PS4 has done what Wii never could - hit 50% marketshare!

[ikki5]

ArchangelMadzz said:

ikki5 said:

Saying the PS4 has 50% of the marketshare as the marketshare in gaming is more than just those three consoles. Home Console Marketshare =/= Marketshare. The marketshare the TC is wanting to talk about is the home console marketshare, a single group in the entire marketshare which is where his fallacy is. he never defined exactly which marketshare it is and instead just labelled it "marketshare". I know its picky but it is stuff like this that skews data which give people gounds to argue something that is not entirly true regardless if it is for gaming or not.

Last time I checked underneath PS4 it says 50.4%?

But it's not like they're different markets or anything, unless you want to count PC in 'marketshare in gaming'?

Yes, and I still don't agree with how VGchartz does it either since gaming is much more than just those 3 consoles, however I guess VGcharts really only deals with these 3 companies with the occasional articles on the side. But really, I always felt that VG charts should lump them all together or better define it. Even more so that the last gen consoles are still selling as well, they'd be in the same marketshare.

 

Faelco said:

Like others pointed earlier, we should count mobile phones and PC if we follow your logic. It's irrelevant. 

 

When you talk about marketshare, you talk about a product and its competitors, not others products who have the same use. Usually, when talking about cars, you even separate them by type or use : small city cars, SUVs, etc... 

And yet the handhelds would still compete with the homeconsles as there are people who buy 1 or the other depending on what interests them.