Phenomajp13 said:
No I described as mediocre due to the software performance, you can't just look at the hardware. Basically hardware good, software bad leading to mediocre overall. That's not hard to understand. It literally has worst software sales than WiiU, how is that excusable. You are obsessed with Switch I see, so please tell me how Switch would be mediocre without telling me something subjective? There is nothing subjective about selling less software than WiiU and being considered poor performance. On the other hand, Switch is the 3rd highest selling platform in hardware history and like 3rd or 4th in software (think PS2, PS4, and PS1 are still above it). Two of those platforms Switch smoked in hardware and I doubt PS1 stays ahead in software, even PS2 doesn't look out of reach but PS4 I think is way too high software wise. Switch is likely the most profitable system in history and maybe PS2 and PS4 have made more revenue. In what way is Switch's global performance comparable to PS5's performance in Japan? |
The software performance you are looking is sales of titles that charted and comparing it to ranking against Switch (that dwarf PS5 even on HW at Japan), I haven't seem yearly totals of SW for PS4 vs PS5 aligned to sustain your claim.
Switch as a hardware is below mediocre when you put it in comparison to PS5, Series S and X. Series S could be said to be mediocre perhaps, but Switch is quite weaker than it. So using the same bogus way of comparing what isn't directly comparable Switch is below mediocre then, but you hardly would agree with it.
zorg1000 said:
I’m not sure why you’re bringing up Switch, to be clear, I never even mentioned PS5 in any of my comments. I was not agreeing or disagreeing that it did mediocre, I was just disagreeing with your statement that, “best in 20 years year automatically means it did well”. If my business lost money $1 million over the last 20 years and this year I made a $1 profit, I still didn’t have a good year just because it was the better than the last 20. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round in 20 straight fights and then makes it to the 2nd round before getting knocked in fight 21, they still didn’t do well despite doing better. |
I'm bringing Switch because the user to who I was replying got very offensive when someone dared make a prediction a little lower than the others and afterwards correct it up (sometime after Zelda launched), but is very cool with calling PS5 sales mediocre.
Best in 20 years does automatically means it done well, again it may not have done well compared to other things (and those things aren't even comparable), but it done very well compared to how it was doing before so it can't be mediocre.
Which business would keep afloat losing 1M for 20 years without being governamental or similar? You are making cases of absolute failures for 20 years and suddenly it didn't do so bad. But even in statistic if you pick up those 20 years and have 19 years of -1M and 1 year of 1 the average (mediocre) would be -950,000.05 so 1 wouldn't be mediocre, mean, average, etc.
The boxer certainly would be doing well on his own progress. Let make your example a runner is doing between 11s and 20s on the 100m training for 20 weeks, but on the last 4 weeks instead of being near the 20 it was getting 11-13 and this week he broke out of it and got a 10. That is great.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."
