The Console wars were something I was interested in as a kid, seeing adults take it seriously is pretty sad.
The Console wars were something I was interested in as a kid, seeing adults take it seriously is pretty sad.
BraLoD said:
Can you quantify your sadness? Let's say, in a scale where 0 is the XBO sales and 100 is the PS4 sales, for reference. |
Ok, I laughed harder than I should have at this.
thismeintiel said:
Except your argument was exactly that. That launching early definitely helps. Your words, not mine. You said it was because it gave the earlier console time to adjust price and gain a year's worth of a gaming library. I simply pointed out how that is wrong. You can call that a strawman all day if you want, but that is just refuting your actual point. The Dreamcast ultimately destroys your conclusion. It launched over a year before the PS2. It launched for $100 less than the PS2 and they even dropped the price by $50 in time for the PS2 launch. And it had a decent library already out and announced to come. It still failed. Even against consoles that launched 2 years after it launched, when it was $99. You also said power was a factor that does not help and waiting to launch is always a bad move. Again, your words, not mine. I won't repeat my argument about that, again, but I also explained why that won't matter for core gamers. |
Read the part I bolded. Now read the part I originally said below.
The_Liquid_Laser said: Releasing early helps quite a bit. Given it can't save a console doomed to fail like the Saturn or Wii U. But if the console has some potential, then an early start can give it a much bigger advantage. |
See how the Dreamcast doesn't destroy my argument? Given, the Dreamcast does destroy the strawman argument that you have been trying to give me this whole time. That is the whole point of a strawman though. Anyone can defeat a strawman argument.
curl-6 bet me that PS5 + X|S sales would reach 56m before year end 2023 and he was right.
My Bet With curl-6
My Threads:
Master Thread, Game of the Year/Decade
Switch Will Be #1 All Time
Zelda Will Outsell Mario (Achieved)
How Much Will MH Rise sell?
My Bet With Metallox
BraLoD said:
Can you quantify your sadness? Let's say, in a scale where 0 is the XBO sales and 100 is the PS4 sales, for reference. |
100
I still love the "phones killed portables" assumption.
DS sales were explosive and unrepeatable in the same manner that PS2 sales were explosive and unrepeatable. A PS3 with no Blu-Ray, a standardized CPU, and a $400 price point wouldn't have sold as much as the PS2. A 2DS XL launching at $170 in 2011 with good first party games would never have gotten near DS lifetime sales.
3DS was overpriced, and tiny, with an 8 month drought of games to start the system off.
Vita was a train wreck on just about every level. It was the Wii U of handhelds.
Many PSP/Vita customers were never going to switch over to 3DS for portable gaming. Those PSP/Vita gamers wanted portable FPS and console style adventure games. 3DS was never going to have those. (Part of Switch's success is that it does offer those type of games, and that has in turn brought much of the Vita/PSP crowd to the system.) So you can't just point to the total handheld lifetime sales of Vita + 3DS and go "See you guys the market shrank from 230 million with DS/PSP to 93 million with Vita/3DS! "
The bolded statement above is just as dumb as Pachter's "Oh hey you guys Wii + 360 + PS3 lifetime sales is more than Wii U + XB1 + PS4 lifetimes sales! Therefore the console market is shrinking!"
Pachter fails to take into account the fact that there was less of a reason to own both HD Twins in the PS4/XB1 era due to PS4 being able to play virtually all the games XB1 had and vastly more. There's a huge 30-40 game gap in the XB1 to PS4 libraries when it comes to games rated at 80% or higher on Opencritic. This gap is in PS4's favor. 360 on the other hand went toe to toe with PS3 in terms of exclusives and 3rd party support. Now that XB1 lacks enough exclusives and 3rd party support to compete most people just stopped buying both an MS and a PS system, because there was no need.
Anyway you can't just "bean counter" it up and go "oh see this gen is losing to last gen!" Those are the same people that point out that 3DS + Wii U is currently beating Switch lifetime sales, without taking into account that many people owned both a 3DS and a Wii U, (for the purposes of having access to all Nintendo games) but nobody needs to own two Switches to play all Nintendo games.
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Read the part I bolded. Now read the part I originally said below.
See how the Dreamcast doesn't destroy my argument? Given, the Dreamcast does destroy the strawman argument that you have been trying to give me this whole time. That is the whole point of a strawman though. Anyone can defeat a strawman argument. |
Lol. So, any console that doesn't fit your little narrative, i.e. defeats your argument, you just wave it away by saying it was doomed to fail. Oh, boy.
thismeintiel said:
Ok, I laughed harder than I should have at this. |
Nah, it would have been funny if 0 was PS Vita sales. Now that's hilarious.
thismeintiel said:
Lol. So, any console that doesn't fit your little narrative, i.e. defeats your argument, you just wave it away by saying it was doomed to fail. Oh, boy. |
Don't you think the Dreamcast was doomed to fail?
curl-6 bet me that PS5 + X|S sales would reach 56m before year end 2023 and he was right.
My Bet With curl-6
My Threads:
Master Thread, Game of the Year/Decade
Switch Will Be #1 All Time
Zelda Will Outsell Mario (Achieved)
How Much Will MH Rise sell?
My Bet With Metallox
NobleTeam360 said:
Nah, it would have been funny if 0 was PS Vita sales. Now that's hilarious. |
But he didn't say 3DS was 100.
Besides, I thought you just said you hated console war stuff. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
BraLoD said:
If the numbers match the reality then it's not a joke. |
Vita's existence in any context is a joke so it is.