Sales Figures No Longer Hot

[AlfredoTurkey]

Kristof81 said:

AlfredoTurkey said:
Sales info first became a big deal during the SNES and Genesis war. Each generation since, internet warriors have waged mortal warfare based on how much their piece of plastic sold etc. As long as that info is out there, the war will wage on for all eternity. It will not end until consoles end.

That definitely wasn't the case with the 4th gen consoles as Sega had never released official numbers and Nintendo used to publish units shipped per each FY, only to publish total sales figures later on, making monthly or even annual sales tracking impossible or highly inaccurate in the best case scenario. The Genesis LT numbers differ by almost 10 million, depending on the source. Even if you take most optimistic figure, which is 40 million, the margin of error is huge. 

I can remember arguing about it as a kid though. Genesis was winning in the US until Saturn came out and Sega shifted gears and lost their fucking mind. As a result of that, it was the first generation where people were bragging about sales, games... in general is was the beginning of the whole "my plastic thing is better than your plastic thing" way of thinking.