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Faxanadu on 12 December 2007

@everyone: Please start learning how to read charts. What they did is estimate year end figures and then assumed linear sales within each year, leaving out seasonal variances. This does not mean they assume the PS3 to start outselling the Wii next week but rather in 2008 in total.



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celine on 12 December 2007
Yojimbo said:
Worst prediction ever atleast they could have tried a little.

 Actually the worst prediction ever whose that analyst that put Wii total sale at 11 million



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celine on 12 December 2007
RolStoppable said:
fkusumot said:

According to that projection the PS3 will start outselling the Wii in a few weeks. That would be interesting.
Sony is probably going to introduce a new bundle in January. Every PS3 comes with a DS.

 And every PSP pink comes with a Wii ... oh wait !



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fkusumot on 12 December 2007
Faxanadu said:
@everyone: Please start learning how to read charts. What they did is estimate year end figures and then assumed linear sales within each year, leaving out seasonal variances. This does not mean they assume the PS3 to start outselling the Wii next week but rather in 2008 in total.

 From the looks of the chart it means they expect the PS3 to outsell the Wii by ~70% in 2008. I think that means they assume the PS3 is going to outsell the Wii by ~70% in 2008. I like Rolstoppable's idea of bundling it with the DS.



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Faxanadu on 12 December 2007
fkusumot said:
Faxanadu said:
@everyone: Please start learning how to read charts. What they did is estimate year end figures and then assumed linear sales within each year, leaving out seasonal variances. This does not mean they assume the PS3 to start outselling the Wii next week but rather in 2008 in total.

From the looks of the chart it means they expect the PS3 to outsell the Wii by ~70% in 2008. I think that means they assume the PS3 is going to outsell the Wii by ~70% in 2008. I like Rolstoppable's idea of bundling it with the DS.


but over the whole year of 2008. as is known, ps3 domination will start with MGS4 and at that point wii will look outdated and stop selling for the rest of the year. 



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Galaki on 12 December 2007

Wii bundled with PSP.
PS3 bundled with DSL.

Is it even legal to do that?



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TWRoO on 12 December 2007

Oh wow, so PS3 domination will begin in 08.... Well i never knew



NJ5 on 12 December 2007
Faxanadu said:
@everyone: Please start learning how to read charts. What they did is estimate year end figures and then assumed linear sales within each year, leaving out seasonal variances. This does not mean they assume the PS3 to start outselling the Wii next week but rather in 2008 in total.

That's not in the category of "how to read charts". That's in the category of "using your smartness to realize what they intended with the chart, but failed to show".

If they just wanted to show year end figures, a table would suffice (and give no wrong information), but "everyone likes pretty charts so let's make one!".

 



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Mummelmann on 12 December 2007
celine said:
Yojimbo said:
Worst prediction ever atleast they could have tried a little.

Actually the worst prediction ever whose that analyst that put Wii total sale at 11 million


 That almost rivals Avinash's 750 million prediction...



Darc Requiem on 12 December 2007
Faxanadu said:
fkusumot said:
Faxanadu said:
@everyone: Please start learning how to read charts. What they did is estimate year end figures and then assumed linear sales within each year, leaving out seasonal variances. This does not mean they assume the PS3 to start outselling the Wii next week but rather in 2008 in total.

From the looks of the chart it means they expect the PS3 to outsell the Wii by ~70% in 2008. I think that means they assume the PS3 is going to outsell the Wii by ~70% in 2008. I like Rolstoppable's idea of bundling it with the DS.


but over the whole year of 2008. as is known, ps3 domination will start with MGS4 and at that point wii will look outdated and stop selling for the rest of the year.


 I sincerely hope that was a joke post. I mean I honestly have to question the intelligence of anyone that says the Wii will start to look dated and the PS3 will take off. The Wii has looked out dated from a graphical standpoint from the beginning. The DS has always looked graphically inferior to the PSP. The vast majority of the gaming public doesn't care about that. The sooner "hardcore" gamers and analyst realize this fact, the sooner they will stop looking like complete and utter buffoons.