IGN: PlayStation Move, The Wii Perspective

[trestres]

Zucas said:

trestres said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
"and definitely sleeker than Nintendo's four-and-a-half-year-old device."

November 2006 to March 2010 is three years and four months. Can't these people count?

I got into a heated discussion over that a few days ago. Cammie said Wii was into its 5th year, and when I told everyone that I didn't understand why would Cammie say such thing, they told me to learn to count lol. It's 3 and 4 months, like you say, but people count 2006 and 2010 as whole years :/

Well the difference there is that works because it's not defining a certain date but saying it has spanned 5 different yeas.  Which is true as it launched November 2006 and we are currently in 2010.  5 different years it has been out.  As long as they don't try to detail the actual lenght, that is technically true.  But saying something is 4 and a half years old when the product has actuallly been on the market for 3 years and four months is completely wrong.

 

Only way I could see that as right, is if they mean when it was first shown back in September 2005.  Technically it has been 4 years and 6 months since that time, and I'm guessing that is what Mr. Harris meant.  Should probably put context for that, or otherwise it doesn't make sense as most people take release month not prototype first shown to the media.

Yeah, things always get different connotations and meanings depending on the situation and who reads them mostly. I think it was a case of PR talk by Cammie. This guy probably refers to it like what you are saying. But then the PS Move is already a year old or so going by that logic since it was revealed during last E3, so the guy is indeed wrong no matter how we interpret this.