| Ausfalcon said: @Ascended_Salyan3 As I said earlier it was my hope not to derail the topic of this thread. As I mentioned, I landed here from reading MikeB on an Amiga site in threads about game consoles. And he is IMO no doubt a stealth troll there. And from there I just found more and more and saw how many people came to the same assesment. Thats not to say MikeB never states true facts ever, and frankly I'm not technical enough to say if he is right for this one issue for this thread we are in. But in plenty of other issues, dealing with his twisting of sales statistics, equipment failures, etc. I have no doubt in my mind he is more often than not a troll. He seems to get off on crafting numbers to his benefit, he likes to selectively quote sources, often ones that are not valid or are questionable. When countered where he can not escape the plain truth he evades that and repeats himself on something else. Its hard to deny that he did not start with the idea that Sony and PS3 are superior and from that he constantly "works the numbers". MikeB is the epitomy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics Here is another similar assesment of MikeB: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?s=be810c112e97e13b0366ec028131e03b&p=11340090&postcount=656 Funny enough, right after that post its was MikeB's cognitive dissonance that was pointed out.
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The best way to find out if MikeB is this "troll" or others are just misinformed is you post some "prime examples" of what you are describing. If you can't come up with several examples, chances are that the others are misinformed. Just because several people decide something is correct doesn't make it so. You need a good amount of data.
