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barneystinson69 said:
Neodegenerate said:

Yes.  Pointing out after being beaten for 7 out of 12 months that if you take a carefully curated view of only 6 of those 12 months that you won (ish) is in fact damage control.

Edit: Changed to 7 because didn't they win April or something?

So winning 1/2 the year is damage control? Why do people always assume it's damage control, when they stated it was up YOY and win the last 6 months of the year. It just means the holiday season was on a knife edge, and the PS4 barely won.

When you lose 2 straight, and then come back to talk about previous victories and spin them in a positive fashion, it is damage control.  It would be like if Ronda Rousey were to go on a speaking tour to discuss being the most dominant woman in the UFC after her two losses simply because she had won before those.

Also, keep in mind that Microsoft is the company who has the head (Spencer) who said a couple years back that the only months that matter are Sept-Dec.  So they lost half of the time that they care about, and then pull in times they don't to try to make themselves look better.

If it were flipped and Sony were saying the same things it would still be damage control.  Xbox can't regain its main territory and is trying like hell to put a positive spin on anything they can.  Were it my company I would do the same thing.  And I would expect people to call me out on it as well.

 

Bandorr said:
Neodegenerate said:

Yes.  Pointing out after being beaten for 7 out of 12 months that if you take a carefully curated view of only 6 of those 12 months that you won (ish) is in fact damage control.

Edit: Changed to 7 because didn't they win April or something?

Not this year. They didn't win anything until July. 6 losses, 4 wins, 2 losses.

April and October was 2015.

Thanks for clarifying, should've stuck with 8.