The official "PS3 is dooooomed, I should have known better" thread

[goddog]

BengaBenga said:

goddog said:

NJ5 said:

goddog said:

BengaBenga said:

NJ5 said:
I predict this thread will die an early death.

 

I don't care.
This thread is meant to prevent people from making new ones, and since this one is here (without the emo OP we had in previous threads) I'll just lock everything that comes remotely close to PS3-will-die threads.

 

so your solution to over reaction is to over react?

does this kill the ten week thread the hype threas, or any thread about weekly sales.... how about threads speculation of future price drops for the ps3 and who they will turn out. I need to know these things so i dont open a thread with an article i have read, and then get banned. are we allowed to talk about how well the 360 and wii are trending this year over last year? since it is clear we can not talk about price point saturation hindering the ps3 this holiday in new threads... and is this limited to thread creation or does it include posts in threads dealing with sales, units moved?

This is not over-reacting, it's forum cleanup. There were definitely too many threads getting created about the same thing.

 

most of these so called doom threads started out as sales discussions be it weekly yearly what not and then became doom threads, that and discussion of a price drop, price point saturation, and sales of software. how do you distinguish ginuine topic discussion from bashing, as a lot of it right now might be negative in both fields. 

now if you want to confine the number of threads on a single topic like this weeks sales, numbers this year vs last year, that makes sense to kill duplicates. but to kill a thread because the discussion trends negative, especially if people are using sources and citing things is pretty harsh. 

edit/note, i dont care if its ps3/360 doomed, id still like a chance to talk about the subjects I layed out a pretty cool  set of senerios a while back where sony could take advantage of not having a price drop this year and cleanup next year even with a drop as late as october... 

 

To be clear: I obviously won't close sales threads or pricepoint threads. And if there's a good reason for a thread it won't be closed of course.

There were really too many threads about how the PS3 was going the way of the Dodo. It's already not allowed to make duplicate threads, this one is just a help in achieving that there's one place where people can show their anger/sadness/whatever about that. People can also cite and uses sources HERE. It's not a censorship about the topic. In general I feel that we don't lock threads enough in case of duplicates.

okay, this is all i was looking for a bit more of a description of what this new rule was