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badgenome on 11 December 2008
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stof said:
NJ5 said:
I hope you're joking stof... Look at the "17 million" part, then look at the rest of the sentence and tell me again that the author is making sense.

 

"there are nearly 17 million of them worldwide" - ok...

"a scant 200,000, for the month of October, of whom live in the U.S. "

 

FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER "For"

I admit it's not the most well written part of the article. He's trying to say how it didn't sell much in October, and thats really not the right place to pack in so much info. but I can guarantee that if people read this article on their own without seeing Dolmites post first, There wouldn't be a problem at all.

It's written by a guy giving his impressions of Home.. on his PS3. Just because he works for Time magazine and not a silly game "journalism" website doesn't mean he's stupid.

 

It's a horribly mangled sentence, and it's only so because he's trying to shoe-horn in the 200,000 figure with which he began. The original version didn't say anything about October:

"Starting today, owners of the pricey PlayStation 3 — there are nearly 17 million of them worldwide, a scant 200,000 of whom live in the U.S. — can download the software for free via Sony's PlayStation Network, which connects the game consoles on the Net so users can play each other."

So, 17 million PS3s worldwide, only 200,000 in the US.