Jokeropia said:
I posit that you don't "rule" the market by winning one week of sales, even during the week in question.
It depends on if you mean the market looking at the bigger picture or how the market is on a weekly basis. I cant see that anyone has claimed that Xbox 360 and/or PS3 is ruling the market now though since i'm fairly sure that most people would think of the bigger picture when they hear and say "rule the market".
Jokeropia said:
I dunno. A football match is generally still at least 1/30 of an entire series, whereas a week is ~1/312 of a typhical console generation. It's like "dominating" a few minutes in the second half while still losing the match overall.
In either case, it's certainly not the "same thing" as people calling domination when Wii scored ~70 on the weighted charts with 360 and PS3 hanging around at ~10.
That is true, it is not same thing on the grade/level you mention here, but i didnt directly compare winning 1 soccer match to 1 week of sales, since as you say, there are more weeks in a console lifetime compared to a soccer season. I just mentioned the soccer example to show that the word "domination" can be used on a smaller grade/level and not just by looking at the big picture
The principle is the same even if you split it into 1/10 or 1/1.000.000. The definition of the word "domination" is not tied up to a specific time period and/or a specific percentage etc.
For example, the Wii doesnt have to outsell the PS3 and/or the Xbox 360 for i.e 1 year and/or the Wii doesnt have to have a i.e 60% lead over the PS3 and/or the Xbox 360 before people are "allowed" to use the word domination. There is no exact key answer to how long or how big of a lead you have to have before pepole are "allowed" to use the word "domination". Therefor, if people want to say that (insert a system here) dominated in i.e Week 45, then this would not be a wrong definition of the word "domination"
Of course, you can say that it hardly matters if one system is dominating in a few weeks if you look at the big picture, and that is true. You can also say that it looks strange to use the word "domination" when it only comes to a few weeks of sales, and that is no problem for me, but the definition itself of the word "domination" is still correctly used in this case. That is all i wanted to point out
This is what we are duscussing right? What the right dictionary definition of the word "domination" is?
Jokeropia said:
Not exactly, "counter comment" was maybe not the best chosen words of me, sorry. What i ment with "counter comment" was that if he would only use the word "domination" now just to tease the people who were saying "domination" back when Wii had the most titles in the UK Top 40 now that PS3 and Xbox 360 have more titles than the Wii. Or if hes saying that the people back then were meaning that Nintendo dominated looking at the bigger picture or if they were thinking specificly about that particular week when they said "domination" and therefor people can say the same thing with the PS3 and/or the Xbox 360 now.
I am pretty sure that Spwolf is meaning that PS3 and Xbox 360 are dominating the Top 40 UK charts in the last 2 or 3 weeks or so, not that PS3 and Xbox 360 are dominating the market over the Wii by looking at the big picture. By the dictionary definition, he is not wrong for using the word "domination" now, since the PS3 and the Xbox 360 did dominate (atleast in my opinion) over the Wii this week when it comes to the number of software titles in the UK Top 40
I guess it is hard to know now if people in general were only thinking about the bigger picture when they said "Nintendo domination" or if they were only thinking about the weeks individually, or both things. But seeing how "Nintendo domination" was said several of times over several of weeks i would assume that people also were talking about the weeks indivudually as well, and not just thinking about the big picture (unless there were different people who were saying "domination" for several of weeks).
But to sum it up in a few sentences, if people want to use the word "domination" on a weekly basis when a system has relatively many more tiles compared to another system (or systems), then it would not be a inproper definition of the word "domination". I think i understand what you mean though, that when people have been saying "Nintendo domination" they have thought about the big picture, and that might be true. I am just speculating and thinking loud if they could have been talking about the particular week as well when they said "Nintendo domination"
Nintendo is domination when it comes to the bigger picture, there is no doubt about that and i dont think anyone can disagree with that
