potato_hamster said:
Goodnightmoon said:
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?
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Seriously? You think overall sales are meaningless, you think market share is meaningless, but selling the most per generation somehow a useful statistic? On what grounds? Would the PS Vita be a successful console for Sony if the 3DS so 8 million total? Not a bit. It would still be a financial failure even though it sold the most of it's generation. On the other hand if the Wii sold 86 million, the PS3 sold 85 milliion and the X360 sold 84 million, would you consider the X360 a failure, because it "came third"? Hardly. Selling the most of a generation is not a great indicator of success at all. Yet somehow you think losing marketshare in a growing market is somehow not a better indication of declining success.
And here you are accusing me of spin.
But don't worry, goodnightmoon, it'll soon be over. If Nintendo continues on the path they're on, it's only a matter of years before the only way you can buy a new Nintendo game is on a device not made by Nintendo - just like Sega. I wonder how you'll spin that when the time comes...
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No I don´t think overall sales are meaningless at all, I´m just pointing that every generation is different so you cannot make a falling trend that start with Snes selling less than Nes, because that´s similar to Ps4 selling less than ps2, and no one says that Sony is in a falling trend for that because in both cases they were the market leader, but the competition and the market size was different.
And I wonder how are you going to spin reality once NX sell more than WiiU, because following your logic, that breaks the trend again, doesn it? if you break the trend twice, is still a trend?? And even the most pessimistic people right now thinks NX will sell more than WiiU so... don´t worry it will take no time until that supposed trend is broken... again.
