naruball said:
I was pretty clear. You, on the other hand, not so much, I'm afraid. You didn't explain why there is truth in what he said. He argued that the switch is the successor of vita and wiiu. Well, not necessarilly the case. Vita numbers didn't suddenly fall. It hasn't done well in quite a while and stopped getting proper support some time ago (nothing najor announced for it). So the vita numbers are far from surprising and possibly have nothing to do with the Switch. He also argued that 3ds numbers haven't been affected, but the same thing happened with ps3. The ps2 numbers remained strong. Did that mean that the ps3 was not perceived as the successor of ps2? Of course not. The ps2 got support well after the ps3 launched. Same thing happening with 3ds, hence its sales. We had a new MH game just a few weeks ago and it's been rulling the charts since it came out. Of course it helped 3ds. |
No, I did not say that. What I said exactly was:
"It doesn't matter as which successor the selling company places a device, it matters what people make of it. Seemingly looking at the charts the japanese take the Switch as Vita-successor. 3DS isn't hurt so far by Switch."
I didn't say anything about the WiiU as you claim. I said that the numbers may suggest, that japanese people did so far see the Switch more as a successor to the Vita than the 3DS. You can argue, that the drop in Vita-numbers is unrelated to Switch (as we never will know), but the 3DS did hold stable. You go on that the PS2 stayed stable after PS3. Maybe, then PS3 probably wasn't seen as a valid successor of PS2 first. Exactly what I said. Sadly I have no PS2 numbers for that time, but in my other post I showed the most recent five systems that got an successor. They all dropped strongly in sales. Maybe the 3DS will drop too later in this year. That's why I said so far. I based my argument in data. Maybe you draw different conclusions, but you cannot so simply shoo away my argument with just an opinion.
