noname2200 on 14 September 2008
I predict that this request will go absolutely nowhere. As support, we're on a sales site that's got plenty of...platform partisans...who will rarely, if ever, be punished for pulling predictions out of their a**es (and why should they? some folks get paid big money to do the same...).
As further support, everytime someone says something outlandish, a three to ten page thread is created, whereas when someone says something that's clearly based on reality, there's rarely anything to say apart from "I agree!"
Result: GTA will destroy the Wii. Discuss for the week.
MontanaHatchet said:
Having reasons for your predictions means that more often than not, you'll be wrong. Videogames sales numbers are unforgiving. They'll completely ignore all logic of userbase, economy and population, and even past trends. I've made dozens of founded predictions that fell flat on their face, and so have other people (sorry Naznatips, but GTA4 will sell more than you want it to).
Having reasons for your predictions means that more often than not, you'll be wrong. Videogames sales numbers are unforgiving. They'll completely ignore all logic of userbase, economy and population, and even past trends. I've made dozens of founded predictions that fell flat on their face, and so have other people (sorry Naznatips, but GTA4 will sell more than you want it to).
Pish-posh and poppycock. Game sales are as predictable as most other endeavors, but because they're based on human behavior there's a lot of variables to control for. That doesn't make them unpredictable, it makes them complex. But if you're willing to plug in the proper data into the correct formula, you'll get the right response.
Of course, to do that you'd also need to have no life, but them's the breaks of trying to play Nostradamus.
