Kinect pre-orders boom (More than 500k preorders by launch! UK ONLY!)

[Kantor]

selnor said:

Kantor said:

Well, I live in the UK. I know MCV is a DVD and video game chain. That doesn't make them a reliable source, especially when their sources are nameless and refuse to provide concrete numbers. If you look at it, it's quite a well written article, because in a good six paragraphs, it gives a sense of positivity regarding Kinect without actually saying anything.

I'm not saying Kinect won't sell huge numbers. I'm saying that this isn't evidence that it will.

Apart from always showing themselves to be reliable? But because they paint a rosey pic for Kinect they are all of a sudden 'not' reliable. 

MCV = understandably reliable, and there is no reason to not trust them.

They could say Kinect only had ten pre-orders and was going to fail miserably and bankrupt Microsoft. This still wouldn't be a reliable source of information.

Or to put it another way, just because a "reliable source" posts it, doesn't make it true. If you trusted somebody, and they told you to jump off a cliff because there was a trampoline and chocolate at the bottom, would you?