Global Hardware 19 October 2019

[zorg1000]

Intrinsic said:

zorg1000 said:

Just because I find something hypocritical doesnt mean I'm upset or worked up, I can assure you I'm quite calm and relaxed lol and that wasnt meant as a jab towards you as a person.

I just think if you're going to point out how one platform sales are lifted by a specific region than you need to do the same for the other platform in the comparison.

Take away Japan and PS4 has a 0.3% lead over Switch.

Take away Europe and Switch has a 67.9% lead over PS4.

To me that shows that Europe is carrying PS4 way more than Japan is carrying Switch.

That's a rather strange way of doing the analysis.

Reason being that EU and NA cancel each other out. The switch is outselling the PS4 in NA the same way the PS4 outsells it in EU. In any kinda "fair" statistical analysis, you group the similarities not single out whichever "one" field that a certain commodity is doing well in. 

In this case, NA vs EU vs ROW are all similar. As I said, they basically cancel each other out in all those areas. Alright, let's see from this week...

Switch - NA + EU + ROW = 206k

PS4 - NA + EU + ROW = 207k

The tie-breaker here also happens to be the one area that has the largest ratio of sales in favor of the switch (10:1), and that's Japan. 

We can also do this your way. Les remove EU where PS4 has a 1.4:1 sales advantage. And then to be fair, also remove NA where the switch has a 1.4:1 advantage, and leave ROW wee they are basically tied and Japan. We get still end with a 2:1 advantage in favor of the switch...even though they are tied in japan, That is just more proof of how much japan is tipping the scales in favor of the switch.

I Dont see how it's strange at all, both viewpoints are completely true. Like you said, Japan is helping Switch have a healthy lead over PS4 and like I said, Europe is helping PS4 be competitive with Switch. My point is that both have to be taken into account when talking about regional differences.