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Read these stats by business analysts that I found on Planetgamecube.com

www.planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=4000

In a nutshell, the report spiews the same news we've been hearing forever now: How the Ps2 definetly won the 2002 market while the remainning percentage was divided equally among Xbox and GC. While Nintendo holds the lead in profability compaired to Xbox and Ps2, the report suggest that Nintendo will loose ground in 2003. Xbox, which is behind GC by one percent will dominate over it with it's strong software lineup and established online support. Furthermore the report suggests that Nintendo CAN shake this and grow into the 12 billion dollar sales record in 2003 only if they abandon the console market and go third party like Sega.

Can you believe this? This report comes from the same people who said that Dreamcast would dominate the industry, that the Playstation wouldn't stand a chance agains the N64 and that the Xbox wouldn't last 6 months in the industry. So who are we to believe? Hey great, they got evidence to back up their case this time but like most usable evidence, it only highlights what the targets don't want to hear. Notice how the report didn't mention the GBA and Nintendo's stranglehold on the handheld market, that the report focuses on sales rather than profability and that GC has already outsold the N64 meaning they'll be comming back in the next console battle.

Of course I don't want to have this focus on Nintendo and the GameCube. Reports such as this one pop up all the time and they usually say the same things. How a certain console took a hit and will most likely have to abandon hardware manufacturing all together. Someone really needs to give whoever is in charge of making these stats and reports a big slap in the face.

You know who these analysist are? They're the same people who write whose dating whom in the super market tabloids. They have no valid information and they don't look at something as a whole. All they see is a little scuff mark on the polish and over hype it, litteraly turning a molehill into a mountain.

Honestly, who cares anymore about how well your system is doing compaired to the other two? As long as games are still being made on it and people are buying those games you got nothing to worry about. And on the subject of what the future holds why relly on someone whose job it is to point out the mistakes of the past. What they say is not set in stone and they can't tell the future either. All of what they say are guesses with charts to back them up.

I don't even see how reports such as this one can be used to the opposing forces advantage. What? The Xbox is going to loose the console war just because someone said it was going to happen? Sales charts do nothing, I've said it before and I'll say it again, the only thing the number of units sold tell you is how many units have been sold. Not to mention anyone can make a bogus report, all you need is a tiny pothole on a systems road to success and exploit it to the point where you give bragging rights to your cause.

Most facts mean something, when it comes to the console market they mean nothing to me. Things can and do pick up and if they don't more often than not the cause has nothing to do with the early facts. As far as im concerned the sales, charts, facts, reports and analysists are just numbers and you can't argue in numbers, you argue in words. Am I going to change my gamming lifestyle all because of a piechart showcasing the hardware sales of each system for one month? Of course not. Im going to stick with the system that I think makes a better case, who can convince me to stick with it without trying to persuade me with numbers. Sure the person who argues with evidence has something to back up their cause, but who's the better arguer? The one who manages to get their point accross without resorting to the works of others or the one who uses the self-glorifying article of the past as a crutch?

Im one to think that using facts to get your point accross means that you aren't confident enough in your belief. That's why I try not to get too carried away by analystic reports such as this one, or anyone for that matter. Because they deal too much on the negatives and don't provide good enough persuasion for me to believe in them. So don't get carried away if your system gets flack from a statistic from some business expert, it's their job to pick on the ones trying to make a difference. Just remember, as long as your happy with your systems performance than you don't need to care how well they're doing compaired to the competition... that's for the company to worry about.



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