scrubfresh said:
Kantor said:
Procrastinato said:
Kantor said:
TRios_Zen said:
Because there is an absolute dearth of Sony fan and media support on the web?
Come on. Sony is doing great since the Slim release, are people really so touchy that if it isn't screamed from the mountains at every possible moment, then something must be wrong?
For the record, I've read no articles anywhere that have suggested that the US = the world or that the 360 is beating the PS3 in worldwide sales anywhere. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places? |
There are plenty of articles with the title "360 outsells PS3 in November". Which is clearly not the case.
Software is even worse. Pachter complained about "Uncharted 2 only selling 650k in the US", while ignoring the 1.5 million sales it's gotten in the rest of the world. But then the rest of the world is just full of commies and dragons.
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The funniest part about this map, to an American, is that a significant part of the rest of the world believes it has some merit. Anyone who has ever actually lived in America would realize that, outside of the most ridiculous of rural locations, the average US citizen is the US government's own biggest critic.
Don't mistake the actions of the powerful and rich as indicators for the personality, or intellect, of a nation of people. I find your map deeply ironic, considering how certain powerful governments like to condemn entire nations, based largely upon their leadership, to the rest of the world.
Don't stoop to that kind of behavior, Kantor -- you're brighter than that.
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Naturally, very few people actually believe in that thing. Though there are stupid people in America, like every other country in the world, for some reason stupid people in America get a lot more attention: all those videos that show interviews of random people in the street in America who think the Eiffel Tower is in Australia and haven't heard of the United Kingdom.
I was exaggerating deliberately because it is true that many Americans place their country on a pedestal above everyone else (from personal experience). And in the case of video game sales, they ignore other countries completely. It's partly because they only have "reliable" data for the USA, but when they don't even mention that it's only the USA they're talking about, that's getting ridiculous.
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Why would people even mention that it's only America in a story about ********NPD****** you doof.
From the looks of your logic skills, it's not America with the ignorance problem. Case in point whenever I go on youtube and look in the comments, half the time it's arrogant Europeans trashing "fat stupid Americans".
Also nice that I've seen people banned on here for "bashing" Japan, but bashing America here is the norm. If anybody posted a map like the above making fun of Japan, they'd be banned. Unless they were a PS3 fanboy and the post was siomehow bashing Xbox...
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I'm not bashing America. I'm just saying that it's illogical to only count NPD, when America is less than half of the worldwide market. If a website doesn't want to use VGC, that's fine, but they really should point out that NPD only has a limited data sample: it only tracks sales in the USA.
As an aside, I do have many American friends, and like Japanese people, Americans are very...patriotic.
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