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potato_hamster said:

You do realize that pointing out the fact that the with market has expanding, total hardware sales have getting bigger,  and yet Nintendo's sales have gotten smaller shows that Nintendo's market share for each generation (barring Wii and DS) has diminished even further than even the raw sales data indicates, right? Your point actually makes Nintendo look worse.

Let me break it down for you:

NES vs SMS vs A7800
61.9M vs. 11.5M (estimate) vs.4.3M
Marketshare: 80%

SNES vs GEN
49.1M vs. 29.5M
Marketshare: 62%

N64 vs PS1 vs Saturn
32.9M vs. 104.3M vs 8.8M
Marketshare: 22%

GC vs. PS2 vs. XB vs. DC
21.7M vs 157.7M vs 24.7M vs 8.2M
Marketshare: 10%

Wii vs. PS3 vs X360
101.2M vs 85.8M vs 84.9M
Marketshare: 37%

WiiU vs. PS4 vs X1
10.1M vs. 24.8M vs. 13.6M
Marketshare: 21% (and dropping)

Taking reasonable projections:
WiiU vs. PS4 vs X1 (projected)
15M vs. 100M vs 75M
Marketshare: 7%

Please go ahead and explain how this somehow makes Nintendo look better? Who is actually doing the spinning here?

Because to me: 80 -> 62-> 22 -> 10 -> (37)-> 7 

That looks like a pretty solid downard trend with the Wii again being the exception.


And now you are trying to spin it even more.

Let´s do it the other way around, shall we? 

Ps1  Marketshare: 70 - 75%
Ps2 Marketshare: 70 - 75% (DC sold actually 10.6m and GC 22.7)
Ps3 Marketshare: 30%
Ps4 estimated marketshare: 52%

Wait wait wait, so there is a trend of Sony going down despite the ps4 success?? What does that means?? OH yeah, NOTHING, because is still the leader of the market right now.

What about

3rd generation - Nintendo leads
4th generation - Nintendo leads
5th generation -  Sony Leads
6th generation -  Sony leads
7th generation -  Nintendo leads
8th generation -  Sony leads

Where do you see a trend in there? Every generation has a different strategy, different market size and a different level of competition, and every generation had different results, there is not a trend in there just because Nintendo failed 2 consecutive times, if something that says that Nintendo could lead again next gen despite the inmense failure of this one, what would be the trend then?? None? Or will you use the marketshare bs to say that there is a trend on Nintendo falling despite the Wii and NX?? or it will be still a trend if it doesn´t reach nes and snes levels of marketshare? What about if next gen we have a 400 milion market with 5 competitive consoles and Nintendo wins with a 25%? Is still going down because is not close to nes, snes and wii marketshare even winning the gen and selling more than those?