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Zippy6 on 29 January 2024
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Phenomajp13 said:
Zippy6 said:

The Famitsu thread for Weeks 52+53 has 112 posts and 9,789 views. The NPD thread for the whole of December (that was for predictions as well as results) only has 44 posts and 3,855 views despite being created 9 days earlier.

You are one of the users that hyperfocuses on Japan sales yourself, on this site and others, with 35 posts in Famitsu threads and only 15 in hardware sales threads about global/europe/usa.

So don't say it's not a thing lol, and don't turn this into "Fans of my favourite console don't do this only the dumb fans of the other console do!" We don't need that divisionary fanbase wars nonsense. All fanbases do it.

I also never meant a fanbase would "dodge" a specific region, but that they would spend relatively more time taking part in threads where their chosen console was the strongest. Not that they would necessarily avoid other regions. It's really just human nature to spend your time focusing on where your "team" is doing best.

What? I'm American, I certainly don't hyperfocus on Japan lol. How you just completely ignore Japan has the most views because it's a large region with actual data, weekly live data. Those NPD/Circana threads would be far bigger if we had as much data. For example how much did those platforms sale, instead of just rankings?

My post being mostly in those threads are because of whom I respond to. Do we see threads of how much will Switch or PS5 will sale in the US this year? Maybe because the data is being hidden with every passing year. Japan is big because Japan has weekly updates and is a large region. 

I didn't turn anything into anything, you made that exact type of post with Nintendo fans stick to Japan threads, like Nintendo fans have any reason to dodge any thread. Switch is doing well everywhere, so Nintendo fans have no reason to dodge Circana threads for example. While Xbox fans have a reason to dodge Japan threads because Xbox is irrelevant in Japan. 

I never said anything about nationality.

"I didn't turn anything into anything, you made that exact type of post with Nintendo fans stick to Japan threads" - I said all users are more likely to focus their interest and sales discussions on regions where their chosen console is doing better. That is not attacking Nintendo fans or warring nonsense, I literally said all 3 do it. You're the one that suddenly got super defensive only taking issue with the comment about Nintendo Fans when I said the exact same thing about PlayStation and Xbox fans too.

My meaning is simple: People will spend more time in threads that are positive about their favourite console and where they are performing the best. You can disagree with that observation all you want but don't turn it into an "us vs them" thing.