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src said:

Because you deliberately ignore blatant market realities: PS3 and PS4 share a significant audience. All publishers look at ecosystems because unlike you, they understand PS3 -> PS4, and 360 -> X1 has a shared audience.

AND means (+) . The word you are looking is OR.

The audience on the PS3 isn't the exact same audience on the PS4. Just like the audience on the 360 isn't the exact same as the audience on the X1. Yes, some people consistently carry over, but the industry is more volatile than that. This is why the Wii can sell 100M units, but the Wii U only sold 13M and the PS3 can sell 87M but the PS4 can sell ~120M, and the Xbox 360 can sell 85M but the X1 can only sell ~50M. If all audiences carried over then those numbers wouldn't fluctuate so much. 

Also, OR is not the word I'm looking for. AND means that it out sold all of those. I think you are thinking that AND means combined...it doesn't. In this instance AND is being used in synonymous with something like "as well as" or "in addition to". OR would constitute "It outsold the X1 OR it outsold the PC" which translates to "it can only outsell one of those, but it can't outsell both". That would mean that, if it outsold the PC it didn't outsell the X1 or vice versa. OR is used to explore alternatives, AND is used to connect items of the same type.  

You need to take an English class and stop being such a blatant fanboy. 

Last edited by Doctor_MG - on 03 December 2020