colafitte said:
Believe me spokentruth, everything you said the other day is right, i don't want to sound negative or biased against Nintendo. But my point still remains and i still don't know how to explain myself correctly.
I guess that i see it like a endurance motorsport race, like 24h of Le mans, where car A and B are neck to neck, A is ahead, and then A goes to box and spend 1 minute changing drivers and B then goes to 1st place. And then in that moment, the News on TV have a in live update of the state of the the race and the anchor ask the comentator of the race who is winning and the commentator then says...."Driver B is the fastest in the race", but he kwows he still has to stop in the pits and the moment he does, car A will regain the 1st place, but he adds nothing more. Then the emision with TV news ends and a few laps later, car B enters in box and A regains the 1st place, but then, there is no news update in the situation, and the audience of the news follow their lives that day with the info that Car B is winning the race.
I see the same with Switch and PS4/XBO because the launch alignments are not the same because one launched in march and the others in november, so when one is benefiting the holiday season the other is not and viceversa. PS4 can spent 9 months of the year ahead launch aligned but then, each year in Decmeber Switch surpass PS4 and becomes the fastest in the same period of time. And don't get me wrong, Nintendo is doing perfectly announcing that, they have to do it in fact. The problem, from my opinion is that a 3rd party allows to give their name to be used for an information for the benefit of one of their consumers without demanding any context to the situation.
It's like when a few weeks earlier, NPD said that XBO and PS4 were leading the growth this year in USA. In that situation, Swith was the one harmed by that out of context info given by NPD. I did not liked that then either, because despite being true, it wasn't telling the right story in my opinion, and that was, that XBO was still the 3rd in sales, Switch was second and the holiday season, when Switch is better was still to come.
In the last few years, i have the impression that these PR from companies are becoming more a more ambiguous to create more discussion so NPD threads al over the internet become more relevant, but from my perspective, we are losing actual info in the process, we already don't know unit sales from consoles anymore, and from videogames that happened long ago. I just wished that we cold have actual numbers without the need to spend countless word trying to figure out the meaning of the numbers....
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