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BentOverMyKnee said:

You sound salty..either way ps3 was and is constantly compared and put doewn compared to ps2.......you are only seeing what you want to see.

Well I do like salty peanuts more than honey roasted, if that means anything.

 

And I wasnt on VGCharts long enought to aee any PS3 PS2 comparisons, I guess.



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The 3DS is selling great! Just not as great as the DS...



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Ninsect said:
Smear-Gel said:
Ninsect said:

And...?

It has outsold it so far. It's the fastest selling console ever released vs. the highest selling console ever. It's a valid comparison.

And...the PS4 was never compared to the PS2 where it needed to sell similarly to not be a failure.

Huh?

1. PS4 is PS3's successor, not PS2's.

2. Just you wait, PS4 will be compared with PS2 once or if it starts falling behind...

3. You keep repeating this "failure" commentary as if people have been calling the 3DS a failure.

I'm definitely using faliure more than I should. Though I still think calling the 3DS sales ""bad"" is odd.



AZWification said:
naruball said:
AZWification said:

Apparently the 3DS is selling badly because it's selling worse than the 2nd best selling video game system of all time!


Following that logic ps3 wasn't selling bad either?

The PS3 sold almost 17 million in 2 years.. Those are awful sales to you?  >_>


Look up the threads and articles about the ps3 being discontinued due to low sales. When the ps3 launched and the shortages ended, the doom was overwhelming. You might not have noticed if, perhaps, you were not a ps fan, but it was real. Even friends of mine who weren't anything close to gamers were telling all about how terriblly the ps3 was doing in 2008.

The sales are not awful to me, but they were bad considering how much better the wii and xb360 were doing and the sales of ps2 (as opposed to gamecube and xbox). They were bad since Sony expected much more from the console and they had to cut the price several times to the point of the company bleeding tons of money. You don't cut the price so soon if the sales are actually good. Neither Sony nor the gaming community saw the sales as good, so no they weren't good.



Ninsect said:

PS3 WAS compared to PS2...a LOT. 3DS is compared to DS because it's a direct successor. PS4 is often compared to PS3 (it's dominating it) and even PS2 (it's comfortably ahead of it). It's the same with everything else. PSV is compared to PSP. One is compared to 360. 

It's not that 3DS is being bashed, it's just that it's massively down on last generation. That is not an opinion or a biased statement. It's a fact you can check out for yourself.

What makes the 3DS a direct successor to the DS but the PS3/PS4 not a direct successor to the PS2/PS3 respectively, pezus

OT: Even when not compared to the DS, the 3DS is still doing badly. It should have an easy time of overcoming the GBA, but that even looks sparse.



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Smear-Gel said:
Ninsect said:
Smear-Gel said:

I'm unsure where I implied the 3DS isnt selling worse than the DS. I'm not blinding myself from facts or deluding myself or whatever you're trying to say.

 

I just think expecting a console to sell just like it's predesessor, when it's predessesor is the highest selling of it's kind of all time, in a market that's shrinking due to smartphones and tablets, is....silly.

I never implied any of that...

But okay, that's what you think and you give valid reasons for the declines. But if we didn't compare the sales we wouldn't know if handhelds were declining or not...What exactly do you have against the comparisons?

Why would you need to tell me 3DS sales are lower then and tell me to check it? Everyone knows that.

 

I dont hate comparisons, but some are just unfair, or a bit unrealistic, I think.

Everyone knows that because we can do the comparisons. I'm just saying that it's a fact that 3DS is selling a lot worse than its predecessor (and hell, it will end up being the worst selling Nintendo handheld). Now, we can look for reasons for the decline as well to make things interesting.

Reactions are relative to expectations and expectations are relative to historical sales. Basically, everything is relative. What defines the success of consoles otherwise? 



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Ninsect said:

Everyone knows that because we can do the comparisons. I'm just saying that it's a fact that 3DS is selling a lot worse than its predecessor (and hell, it will end up being the worst selling Nintendo handheld). Now, we can look for reasons for the decline as well to make things interesting.

Reactions are relative to expectations and expectations are relative to historical sales. Basically, everything is relative. What defines the success of consoles otherwise? 

Whether they have the most 1080p games or not.

Tee hee.



NintendoPie said:
Ninsect said:

PS3 WAS compared to PS2...a LOT. 3DS is compared to DS because it's a direct successor. PS4 is often compared to PS3 (it's dominating it) and even PS2 (it's comfortably ahead of it). It's the same with everything else. PSV is compared to PSP. One is compared to 360. 

It's not that 3DS is being bashed, it's just that it's massively down on last generation. That is not an opinion or a biased statement. It's a fact you can check out for yourself.

What makes the 3DS a direct successor to the DS but the PS3/PS4 not a direct successor to the PS2/PS3 respectively?

OT: Even when not compared to the DS, the 3DS is still doing badly. It should have an easy time of overcoming the GBA, but that even looks sparse.

Did I say that?



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Compare it to Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, DS, PSP and any Iphone / Android device and you will see that it sells very badly. This is also the reason why 3rd party support is almost completely lost.



Ninsect said:

Did I say that?

"PS3 WAS compared to PS2...a LOT. 3DS is compared to DS because it's a direct successor. PS4 is often compared to PS3 (it's dominating it) and even PS2 (it's comfortably ahead of it)."

You didn't not say it. So you acknowledge that the PS3 is a direct successor as much as the PS4 is?

Alright, that's good. At least you aren't trying to make up excuses as to why the PS3 can't be compared to the PS2.