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Originally Posted by Reverend Blu
Thats what I am talking about.
If you take the Nintendo PR statement by itself it sounds hunkydoory since its just 49 percent hardware sales.
If you just look at the Microsoft statement it sounds coopacetic with 49 percent of hardware sales.
But things breakdown if you look at Wii hardware at 49 percent and then on the same page you read Xbox 360 hardware 49 percent
That leaves two percent hardware sales for the PS3 from Sony?
Two percent for a platform thats in second place for the July NPD numbers?
Two percent for a platform thats outselling a platform that tells us via PR speak that its "49 percent" and still lost July?
It does not compute.
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Revenue does not equal amount of consoles. Point #1. Nintendo is talking about amount of consoles in homes, MS is talking about money spent on consoles. There is a big difference. Obviously, Microsoft is also talking about the 360 in general, not just the hardware. Software, accessories, hardware. Everything, which is 10.8 billion dollars. Obviously, since the 360 sells the most software, this would cause them to have 49% marketshare in addition to selling almost as much units as the Wii, at a much higher price, again, inflating revenue. Is it spin? Yes, but it's probably true.
I'd also like to note that there's no way the Wii actually has 49% marketshare since inception. Nintendo is saying that 49% of all living room consoles sold in July were the Wii. Games Industry kind of made the meaning fuzzy. But since the 360 is at 10 million consoles and the Wii is somewhere at 11 million according to the NPD from launch to date, there's no way the Wii has 49% marketshare with the PS3 at some 5 million. So Nintendo's 49% figure is for the month.
Now does this all make sense now, or no?