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AngryLittleAlchemist on 09 February 2019
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ArchangelMadzz said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

What you just said wasn't a nitpick though? It's just moving goalposts. Mandalore said the Switch is still selling. Even if Mandalore was only talking about the chart, you are very clearly talking about now. You would have stated otherwise had that been the case, and you yourself even compared the point the Switch is at now in it's life to the point the PS4 was at on it's 24th month (though that comparison was wrong), so that was clearly never the set frame of time.

I only replied to you because you asked me what it was that you said that wasn't correct. You didn't seem to get my point, so I reiterated. No need to take it that way, man. 

And he's right, it is still selling, but we don't know the figures for January, December is what we have and is recent enough, but that's the data we're talking about.

I just think it's pretty clear that my original point was obviously to say that PS4 hasn't had 2 official price cutxs, it took 2 years for it to get it's first and switch isn't even at the point of selling for 2 years. Which is why I accused you of nitpicking for doing a (paraphrasing) 'well actually, it got it's price cut a few weeks before it's 2nd birthday' Which still doesn't change the point because we can't even compare the switch to that as those numbers aren't even out for it's 23rd month.

The point seemed like such a miniscule point to make when it's very clear what my original comment was stating that the post I was replying to was pretty ridiculous, so I felt like this entire exchange was unnecessary, apologies for getting frustrated. 

I understand where you're coming from but ... the first part of your comment is literally just a question (which is really a correction). It isn't your overall "point". The only argument you really put forth and gave to Mandalore was the last part of your comment. The first part of it is just a question, or really more of a correction, because he made a mistake. It isn't the meat and potatoes of what you were saying. I don't even feel like that should be argued. And since I was only replying to you, it's a bit disingenuous to suddenly only care about the set time frame in the OP. My entire condition for replying was on the comparison to the 24th month. 

If you want to call that nitpicking, then just be aware you did the same exact thing to Mandalore. The only part of your reply that was correct was a nitpick of the fact that he was technically wrong on the amount of price cuts the system had. And now you're saying that was your main point. So if your main point was just to correct him on a number ... is that not a nitpick? I was at least addressing an actual argument being put forward. Mandalore's argument relies on the PS4 having a price cut, but not so much on the amount of cuts the PS4 had. That's really tangential to his overall point. On the other hand, what I replied to was very obviously the main point of your comment, and I don't know how it could be claimed otherwise. Again, the first half of your comment wasn't an argument it was just a factual correction, the second part of it is the only part where you're actually making a point to be argued for. 

I just feel like I needed to state all of this because I don't want to end the discussion on a summary that I take issue with. But, I don't think it needs to be argued anymore. No need in getting frustrated over this. Cheers.