| DMeisterJ said: So we're done throwing VGC under the bus now at the first sign of being incorrect? Like I said earlier, the 1.3 million players means nothing to sales, since it's inconclusive. There are lots of variables. If you have a PSN account, and you borrowed, stole, or bought a used copy of a game, you count as a unique user. On the other hand, if you bought the game, and don't have a PSN account, or internet access, then you don't count. So, the 1.3 million number means absolutely nothing to the number of units sold, like I said explicitly earlier in the thread. It's a shame that VGC had to get thrown under the bus, so the LittleBigAgenda could keep on going in the community. Like I said before, people will never accept that LBP is a success. Look at how people like Maynard tool were frothing at the mouth to post how it was overtracked, and got pwned. It's really a sad day that we can't be happy that a game is doing good. I feel very sad for the people that won't accept it. |
The topic had almost - so very almost - slid off of my "Forum Posts" quick list. Then you had to say something ridiculous twice in a row. I was just going to ignore the first one!
Yes, I was apparently wrong here - I'm nont going to apologize for being wrong, however, because my reasons for assuming what I did were sound (Gamespot edited their blog, Kotaku reported after the fact, what have you). That my sources turned out incorrect is incidental to the spirit of the argument I was making, which was still sound.
I'll admit that there's apparently some bias against the title running around here, but it's unfair to the point of outrageousness to unfairly characterize everyone who took the reports of Hirai's statements at face value as some kind of LBP basher. That's ridiculous. VGChartz wasn't getting thrown under the bus - Brett's estimates have been off-base before. It's just the reality of the business. Yes, it was pretty large insofar as that goes, but in a holiday month it was well within the realm of possibility.
There's a fine line between being right, between saying that you are right, and in one moment rubbing everyone's faces in your correctness and in the other decrying everyone but you as some kind of rabid hater.
Uncool, man. Dreadfully uncool.
