Random? It is pretty clear where the data come... which console sold that much in US for so many years?
I don't have monthly data so I can't compare directly to XB1 up to October but I'm pretty sure if I have Jan-Oct you will see a way bigger % than 27 and 20.
In any case you said it never happened but it indeed happened.
Who said it never happened? I was just wondering why you posted numbers without saying what they are, and now I know they're PS2, which would have been helpful before... Edit: Oh I misunderstood what you meant there, well fine it happened with the PS2 and I was wrong about it
never happening before, but the market is very different now and there were other circumstances at play there:
PS2 was weird, since it launched early and took a long time to get popular, and then when the slims released and it became super cheap it started to get bought by loads of people just as DVD players and stuff like that. Definitely a one off in the market.
Anyway, I just read the original statement again, and I agree that this, "year-over-year growth like this at this point in the cycle has never been seen before", is false. But this, "It's a mid-generation turnaround the market's never seen before", can certainly be said is true due to the X being a new concept.
Not even sure what we're arguing about here.