RolStoppable said:
Yes, that was when you asked if Nintendo's IPs help to sell 70m+ consoles on a regular basis. That's also the point where I would have made you a compliment for impersonating someone who doesn't know better, but I know that it isn't an act of yours. It's the real you. Anyway, Nintendo's IPs have sold 70m+ handhelds without exception since the inception of the handheld market. Being made aware of that, you moved the goalposts and claimed that handhelds only account for 17% of the overall gaming market, so it doesn't counter that Nintendo only caters to a niche. Now for a list of problems: 1. The same statistics put all home consoles combined at 53%. How many percent points of those are Sony's? The stats aren't broken down, but Sony would have below 30. Of course Sony gets one or two percent points of the handheld pie that isn't broken down either, so let's make that a flat 30%. Nintendo has a share in home consoles, so their total would be 20-25%, only marginally lower than Sony's share. But your argument is that Nintendo is niche because they don't have the wide reach of Sony. Hm... 2. You might wonder why I estimated Sony's share to be so low, but that has a good reason. The statistics you are using only concern the USA where Xbox One and Wii U combined have sold more units than the PS4, therefore my estimate of Sony accounting for half of the home console usage is fair. In any case, the important catch is that what you called the overall gaming market is actually only the USA. 3. The next important catch is that the statistics you used show the results for a question that allowed multiple answers, but only from people who identified as "frequent gamers" in a preceding question. A frequent gamer is probably determined by nothing more than passing a certain threshold of hours per week spent on gaming, hence why even browser games are included. So the statistics don't even represent the entire US market, but only the subset of people who play a lot. You have yet to provide statistical data that indicates Nintendo's reach to people who do not identify as frequent gamers. Honestly, your argumentation is bad and you can't read statistics. Unsurprisingly, otherwise you wouldn't have come into this thread to say 30-40m lifetime for Switch, maybe less. The important question I have to ask myself is why am I even trying to help you. |
Why are you bringing up sony? it has nothing to do with this. It's a strawman. Yes, I read the statistics wrong the first time I saw them and I tried to find other statistics about the handhelds share but I couldn't find any. I never said anything about the global or I didn't hide that those stats were on the us. I was trying to be modest with a 30 to 40 mil prediction. 
Should I go lower?
