| rubido said: If you let fanboyism influence your predictions, that is what you get. Outrageous and unprofessional predictions that miss the truth by miles. |
My only guess is that his popularity around these parts is because his ridiculous predictions are so pro-Wii, unlike leo-j's outlandish pro-PS3 predictions, or that annoying new 360 thread-creating guy.
Other than that, is it just that he is supposedly "nice" and puts little smiley faces in his comments? Are people really that desperate for a little cheeriness in their lives?
I mean, the guy signs all of his own posts, in case anyone forgets who wrote it by the time they get through all of that meandering drivel. And just look at his sig: he's supposedly thirty years old, yet it is reminiscent of a note written using ten different crayons by my little niece.
He has never demonstrated that he possesses even the most remedial understanding of statistical analysis, yet according to his profile he has "insight on this industry gathered from years of being end user & customer."
I am, for obvious reasons, reminded of this audition scene from the movie Bowfinger:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL7fnQ5U3Cc
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
