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Aquamarine on 23 June 2016
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RolStoppable said:
WoodenPints said:

I don't really understand this quote "Yup. It baffles me when people try to say 3DS is doing well. " combined with the chart when you compare 1 handheld (3DS, 2 if we add in Vita but the chart goes to 2019 so likely only a Nintendo handheld by then) to mobile.

It's basically like comparing a revenue chart of "BMW" in 1 bar and "Every other can manufacturer in the world" Comparing one device by one company to everything else in the world is likely to show revenue charts like that.

For some reason ZhugeEX has this weird idea that handhelds are dead, hence why he agreed with Aquamarine's choice of the five systems she can report NPD numbers for (PS4, XB1, Wii U, PS3, 360). But the thing is that the 3DS outsells the Wii U, PS3 and 360 combined. Additionally, nobody cares for the 5-10k units the 360 and PS3 sell per month because that generation is behind us. We would be much better off with PS4, XB1, Wii U, 3DS and Vita numbers; while the Vita sells as little as the 360 and PS3, it's at least an eighth generation system, so more people on this website are interested in those numbers. Aquamarine's justification is that she doesn't care about handhelds.

Anyway, when it comes to handhelds, ZhugeEX tends to lose his senses. While otherwise you can expect objective and respectable analyses of sales numbers from him, handhelds do something to him.

I don't understand why you decided to bring me into the conversation.

I just want to show a vertical slice of the console industry in the USA because that's literally the only part of the traditional industry that gets talked about as a revenue driver.

"Nobody cares" if I share NPD 360 and PS3 numbers, eh? Guess I'll stop sharing them, then. No skin off my back. I'm getting too old for this juvenile nonsense.