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potato_hamster on 02 February 2016
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RolStoppable said:
potato_hamster said:

So Nintendo is better than Sony and MS because Nintendo has a rabid fanbase that only plays Nintendo-made games and buys them like they didn't go out of style a decade ago, and Sony and MS's fanbases tend to support both first and third party games because gamers on platforms that actually have that option. Okay. If that's your criteria then you got me beat. I mean it's a completely and utterly meaningless judgement but if that's the nail you want to hang your hat on, all the power to you.

Of course, by your same criteria Call of Duty must be the best shooter series ever (because sales).


The home console market is shrinking? Maybe you should tell Sony and Microsoft, their increased console sales beg to differ. Ohh wait let me guess, it must be shrinking because a Nintendo console isn't selling as well. It's cool.

Remember what the original point of contention was? If third party games get removed from the equation, then Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft all have the same to offer, according to you. I disagreed and said that Nintendo has a lot more, and that's backed up by people buying more Nintendo software than either Sony or Microsoft software. If you want to know the whole point why I am arguing with you, it's because I knew that it will freak you out that Nintendo is better at something. Which fits for your final paragraph just as much:

Only one response ago you insisted that you aren't one of those people who shift goal posts. So much for that. Now we are supposed to remove Nintendo consoles from the equation, because otherwise the numbers would show that the home console market has been shrinking this generation.

That is not backed up by people buying more Nintendo software. Sales don't mean that one company "offers more" than another. I could just as easily argue that Sony has sold more consoles than Nintendo has 3 of the last 4 "generations" therefrore Sony offers more. It would be equally meaningless.

I'm not moving the goalposts. If you really want to factor the Wii into last "generation" and not count it it an anomoly that brought millions of people that otherwise wouldn't have bought a game console as part of the "market" then be my guest, but it doesn't help anything. The Wii was quite obviously a fad. Including it in the perspective of things just creates a giant spike out of Nowhere and then after settling the trend continues as expected. In data analysis we call it an "outlier" because including it just skews the numbers so out of a wack that it completely distorts market number that are otherwise pretty easy to read.