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Taz! on 18 July 2009
kowenicki said:
@taz

lol. ok. and in busy months big percentages are big numbers... whats your point?

Yes, so the percentages and numbers are more relevant Imo.

If someone said to me, the 360 is outselling the PS3 in America by around 25%, I would think 'Damn, thats alot'

If someone said to me, the 360 is outselling the PS3 in America by around 10k units, I would think 'Not a big difference'

It's just a personal thing, percentages are used to make things look better than they are alot of the time.



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NJ5 on 18 July 2009

The UK increase in PS3 sales could well be due to the exchange rates making it cheaper there.

If all Europeans knew about it, no one would buy a PS3 from anywhere else. In these hard times, maybe people are wising up to this and importing from the UK.



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NJ5 on 18 July 2009

Oh you meant this week... forget it then.



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FootballFan on 18 July 2009
NJ5 said:
The UK increase in PS3 sales could well be due to the exchange rates making it cheaper there.

If all Europeans knew about it, no one would buy a PS3 from anywhere else. In these hard times, maybe people are wising up to this and importing from the UK.


Well, if that was the case Xbox 360 and Wii sales would be up 50% aswell wouldnt they?

 



NJ5 on 18 July 2009

@FootballFan not necessarily since they're cheaper, but anyway forget my post, I was misreading things.



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Taz! on 18 July 2009
kowenicki said:
@taz

But the percentage is the trend, not the number.

Also to use your arguement in reverse...

If the 360 was outselling the PS3 by 100k in a busy week and that was 25%... then what would you say?

Then the percentage feels smaller... so stick with the percentages if you want real figures and trends not coloured by seasonal numbers.

Ok, I'l stick with percentages and never complain again. Here is my final example as to why I dislike percentages.

Here is the sales figures for 3 beer companies during 2008:

- Carlsberg sold 1,000,000 units

- Harp sold 50 units

- Guiness sold 1 unit

Here is the sales figures for 2009 sales:

- Carlsberg sold 1,200,000 units Grown by 200,000 units / Grown by 20%

- Harp sold 50 units Grown by 0 units / 0%

- Guiness sold 2 units Grown by 1 unit / 100%

 

So who has grown the most? And can you imagine the press releases from each of these companies. Even though only one company did good, all three of them could make it out as if they did well. (and note, there is probably some maths mistakes in there).



Gilgamesh on 18 July 2009

Ouch for Wii

And the PSP is doing surprisingly well?



everdom on 18 July 2009
Gilgamesh said:

Ouch for Wii

And the PSP is doing surprisingly well?

Im curious, if the Wii is ouch how would you describe the PS3's current situation?



Gilgamesh on 18 July 2009
everdom said:
Gilgamesh said:

Ouch for Wii

And the PSP is doing surprisingly well?

Im curious, if the Wii is ouch how would you describe the PS3's current situation?

But that's understandable for the PS3, at it's price it should be selling less, but the Wii is only $250, not to mention YOY it usually sold over 350K average and it's dropped by almost 200K!



Mummelmann on 18 July 2009

No big changes overall. I hope no one in here still believe the Wii will do more lifetime than the DS, look at that thing go!
360 and PS3 are meh, as usual but the Wii is really falling now, its fabled immunity to industry woes seems to be gone now (recession, exchange rates, market flux, software drought etc).
I wonder how low all three will go before the fall and winter highs arrive?