> If that were so we would stop counting Window's marketshare too. > Deciding that the top rated product is "irrelevant" is a slippery > slope.
Right, dream on. The likelihood that someone is going to overtake Windows in market share this year is...what, maybe 0.00%? I'm just guessing. The point, which you seem to miss, is that PS2 is an obsolete product. Its usage dropped by around 40% in one year. It has ceased to be. It is no more. It has gone to meet its maker, joined the choir invisible. It is an ex-console. I.e., irrelevant. > >Further, it's not clear where the numbers you quote came from. They > >aren't in the article you linked to. > > Sure are. It must be that darn Vista Readlity Distortion Firewall > again. > > http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/01/02/nielsen-360-the-second-most-played- > console-of-08/ > > >Not exactly a "wide margin" to my eye. > > 17 vs 31 is almost double to my eye. I would call it a wide margin. Are > you counting votes for Coleman? OK, I clicked the wrong link. But as you will note if you check the timestamp of that article, it is not up to date. The Nielsen numbers at http://tinyurl.com/cazyqm are newer: PS2 23.7%, Xbox 18.2%. Those are for January, and Xbox's numbers went up again in February (I don't quote them because they are stated differently and aren't comparable to the numbers given for January). I would call it a narrow margin. Your comments on this could charitably be termed "grasping at straws". ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
