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spin spin spin, they forgot to tell that the queen only play her wii U



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nightsurge said:
theprof00 said:
Seriously:
MS fans: This is spin because 360 is clearly superior to ps3 and wii, yet the numbers don't show the whole picture:
Sony fans: This is not spin because Sony is saying that their brand was the strongest and showed numbers illustrating it.

Sony is talking about brand, and marketshare.
MS fans are talking about consoles only.

Funny thing is, I bet the year before, Sony wasn't the market leader, and now they are. MS fans think this still means nothing.

It is mostly how the statements are interpretted that make them spin. Like people on here in the first few posts getting confused by it or thinking it meant something more than "the brand sold more".

Hence the reason for delivering the statement the way it was delivered. All companies do it. I am not trying to say that Sony is somehow different or bad for doing this. I am merely correcting the people on here that think this Sony statement was NOT spin.

It is, not matter what other examples or analogies you try to throw at it. Your examples are also spin from different companies/markets.

If all companies do it, why do I only hear the ms fans saying it about sony news every day?
Please understand old friend, it is just tiring seeing this every single thread positive about playstation.



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Yeah?

Who's that?

Oh, that's Sony. He's gonna solve the zodiac case.

Well good for him!



i'm surprised, there are lots of Xbox's here. Maybe sony are coming back up



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theprof00 said:

If all companies do it, why do I only hear the ms fans saying it about sony news every day?
Please understand old friend, it is just tiring seeing this every single thread positive about playstation.

Most likely because these boards are so overrun with Sony fans compared to MS fans, that the MS guys get tired of seeing the 100's of articles about these types of statements and seeing the aftermath on these forums.

It is also tiring watching every remotely positive MS thread get turned on it's head by Sony fans within the first 3 replies.

But I digress, good buddy.



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crissindahouse said:

VGC numbers:

Microsoft: 28.45%
Nintendo: 40%
Sony: 31.55%

Seems like we have Nintendo over and Sony undertracked if they also counted DS, 3DS, Wii, Wii U, PSP, Vita, PS3 and 360

If nintendo's consoles sales are lowered so that they account for 35%, that almost perfectly alligns microsoft and sony without changing their numbers(within 2%). Mostly nintendo overtracked if we assume 360 tracking is accurate. Otherwise everything can be undertracked or overtracked.



nightsurge said:
theprof00 said:

If all companies do it, why do I only hear the ms fans saying it about sony news every day?
Please understand old friend, it is just tiring seeing this every single thread positive about playstation.

Most likely because these boards are so overrun with Sony fans compared to MS fans, that the MS guys get tired of seeing the 100's of articles about these types of statements and seeing the aftermath on these forums.

It is also tiring watching every remotely positive MS thread get turned on it's head by Sony fans within the first 3 replies.

But I digress, good buddy.

It is interesting to see how the two viewpoints diverge. From my pov, it seems like there's never positive Sony news and 100's of positive MS news.