Wright said:
I did, and I stand by what I said. The rest of your post feels like a consequence of the former (which is explained of it being a NPD thread) rather than an evidenced case of NPD-bias. I don't think people take too lightly the numbers of other places. PS3 basically managed to beat Xbox 360 thanks to Japan numbers and the slight outselling in Europe, and we all acknowledge those two markets being decisive factors. NPD is nice and all that, and since it used to be Xbox's territory, it's obviously the one that gets the most emphasize when going for the console marketshare discussion thingy whenever it is involved. That doesn't mean the rest is disregarded. Then again we all know that Xbox has zero chance in Japan like Lawlight tried to ironically propose, so there's no point in bringing it up, and much less in NPD thread. It's not that it doesn't matter, it's the fact that it doesn't matter to Xbox. |
You keep saying "we," but I wasn't saying "you." I was saying that Barney would say it's an npd thread, which is fine, since this board is generally nuanced about sales discussions, and then expressing my frustration with less knowledgeable forums and sites where the US is really the only region that is treated as if it matters. And no, I'm not writing an analytical essay here, I write enough of those in grad school :)
Anyway, I didn't mean for my prior post to be argumentative, so sorry if it came across that way.
