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StarDoor on 26 September 2017
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Kerotan said:
StarDoor said:

It's meant to highlight why people think you're trolling. Every time you're misinformed about something, it's in a way that makes it easier for you to make a pro-Sony and anti-Nintendo narrative. If Vita goes with PS3, then Sony's performance this generation looks a lot more impressive: It means 7th gen was a huge decline in both handheld and home console sales, but at least PS4 is improving from the previous home console. Of course, Vita is 8th generation, so the real story of this gen is Sony losing a huge amount of handheld customers, a deficit that cannot be compensated for even with more home console sales.

Then there are the double standards. You've been very open about putting together 3DS and Wii U sales, so you clearly think that those two consoles are in the same generation. But then you turn around and claim that Vita doesn't go with PS4. This is in spite of the fact that 3DS released BEFORE Vita.

So, why would 3DS be 8th gen, and Vita be 7th gen in your eyes?

Answer: Because if you compare 3DS + Wii U versus Switch, it's a harder comparison for Nintendo than Wii U versus Switch or 3DS versus Switch. Therefore, you pick the comparison that makes Nintendo look worse.

On the other hand, if you only compare PS3 to PS4, it's an easier comparison for Sony than PSP+PS3 versus PSV+PS4. Therefore, you pick the comparison that makes Sony look better.

Look you can call me an idiot for my views on what gen the PSP is,  I really don't care.  

 

But what you're missing here is why do I not compare ps4 to Sony's previous home console + handheld?  It's quite simple.  Ps4 is not a hybrid so it gets compared to what it's succeeding and that's the ps3 only.  

 

Do you understand? 

It seems like you are the one who doesn't understand. I didn't say PS4 should be compared with both PSP and PS3. I said that PS4 AND Vita should be compared with PSP and PS3, because those numbers represent the entire PlayStation userbase for gens 7 and 8, just like Wii U and 3DS represent the Nintendo userbase for gen 8 and Switch will represent the entire Nintendo userbase for gen 9.

According to your own logic, comparing Switch to Wii U + 3DS is exactly the same as comparing PSV + PS4 to PSP + PS3. If you can compare one hybrid to a home console and a handheld combined, then obviously you can compare a home console and a handheld combined to another home console and another handheld combined.

You're saying PS4 shouldn't be compared to the previous home console + handheld. But you know what? Sony did release a handheld this generation. You're always celebraring PS4 being ahead of PS3 as some huge accomplishment and using it as evidence for Sony doing very well, even though their total userbase has shrunk considerably. So your comparisons allow PlayStation as a whole to decline by a huge amount, while Nintendo can't decline at all. You're saying that PlayStation will still be more impressive to you just because PS4 is doing better than PS3, never mind that PlayStation's handheld sales have declined by 14 million.