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Media Create Sales: Week 49, 2017 (Dec 04 - Dec 10)

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Kinger256 said:
It's quite remarkable how you're able to construct weird and irrelevant groups such as the Xbox One, Wii U and Vita then promptly compare without even any consideration to what my original point was. Like how are they even related? A console that's only 4 years in it's lifespan? Two of the greatest failures in gaming?

I'm not saying it sold more or less then this, or that the number isn't sizable. I'm saying that relative to Japan, interest in Nintendo's handhelds have gone down in the west, and that you can't argue that. There's cold hard stats backing me.
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This isn't an irrelevant grouping, it's 3 of the 4 other competitive platforms within the same generation 3DS shares. The question was if 3DS was a successful platform or not in the west, well it's outsold the generally accepted to be successful Xbox One in the west and despite that machine being "only" 4 years into it's (6-7 year?) cycle it likely won't catch up at the rate it's going. Moreover 3DS has seen an odd late cycle turnaround, where for example in the US sales rose in year 5, then rose again in year 6 and now according Nintendo looks like it's somehow rising again in year 7.

Yes 3DS has declined in the west from the heights of GBA and DS, but that wasn't the issue being discussed. The point of contention was if the platform itself were successful or not. I'm just saying it is.

Kinger256 said:
I never said anything about standards what it should have sold...
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You brought a direct DS comparison, so you set a standard for comparison. No system compares well to DS, except the PS2. You're inserting an impossible bar here, one that other successful systems like NES, MD, GB, SNES, PS1, GBA, 360, Wii, PS4, Switch, etc, all also fail to meet.
 
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