Nintendo Claims No.2 Spot, PS2 Sales Down Year-On-Year

Posted by simoniker on Thursday January 15, 2004 @04:28AM from the statistics-are-complicated dept.

jkcity writes "In an interview with Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan on IGN Cube, she claims: 'We basically won 2003 [in the U.S.] and moved ourselves to the number two spot, and Microsoft's Xbox to number three', also noting: 'Year-on-year we were up 68.5% [in December] based on units sold. We sold about 1.1 million GameCubes in December... For the whole year we were up 35%. Our competitors were both in the negative.' But an analyst quoted in an [overly harsh?] BBC News story is less impressed, suggesting the console 'did not do as well as I would have expected'." Elsewhere, a Reuters story notes that PlayStation 2 sales in the U.S. "fell 27 percent to 2.94 million units in November and December from four million units a year earlier", but the console still seems to be outselling the GameCube's increased Xmas volume.

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This Panda wants Sources by Ultra_Panda_Bear · 2004-01-15 05:29 · Score: 1, Troll

Again, please cite some sources and statistics. Just because it's a "well-known fact", doesn't mean it is true. To many people who post on Slashdot, it's a "well-known fact" that all consoles are sold at a loss and that's not true.
As I said before, just because you've seen them fail does not mean they are more prone to failure than other consoles. Personal experience does not make for good statistics.