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albionus on 19 October 2007
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Legend11 said:
DonWii said:
Legend11 said:
fkusumot said:

Seems like Halo sales really brought down Wii sales. I'm worried for the XBox360 though. When 3rd parties see how well the 1st party software does it may scare them off from trying to compete.


Huh? Three of the top ten titles this month are third party 360 games, this dispite the fact that 3.3 million copies of what was probably the most anticipated first party title dominating the console. When you add in the fact that the only other third party game in the top ten was a PS2 game your comment becomes bizarre to say the least.


It was sarcasm. I fell for it, as well.

It would have been sarcasm if there were no third party 360 titles in the top 10 (putting the 360 in the same position as the Wii when it's major first party games dominate the system).  That would have made 360 owners look like fools for saying such things about the Wii, but he failed.

Sarcasm- harsh or bitter derision or irony.

Irony- a linguistic device or form of humour that takes its effect from stating or implying the opposite of what is the case or what is intended.

I think fkusomot could read the charts as well as you could so why would it have been sarcasm only if the charts agreed with what he said?  Seems to me he was being ironic by saying 3rd parties will be scared of MS on the 360 when that clearly isn't the case. Which I think would qualify as ironic derision (or perhaps derisive irony) or, as it's also known, sarcasm.  The first sentence of his post was an even bigger give away that the entire post was sarcastic.