Flurry has written up a report, Is it Game Over for Nintendo DS and Sony PSP? It shows market percentages for major handheld platforms and notes that over the past three years the PSP’s share has all but dried up and Nintendo’s has declined from 70 to 57 to 36 per cent. What’s filled the gap? iOS and Android!

The problem is the manner in which the data’s presented. In the pie-charts provided—the hook that’s being reported everywhere—Flurry combines iOS and Android. Last time I looked, iOS and Android were not the same thing. In fact, I’m pretty sure you could consider them rival platforms, so why the hell combine them in the charts? “Because we’re trying to make the point that smartphone-oriented systems are beating the traditional ones, you idiot,” Flurry might say. So why then not combine Sony and Nintendo’s share in the same charts?

Data’s only really useful if the same methodology for presentation is used throughout. When even one set of pie-charts screws that up, the rest of the report is akin to stabbing myself in the eye with a fork, no matter how happy I am that iOS revenue is now outpacing even Nintendo’s handheld revenue.