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Darth Tigris on 21 September 2010
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Doobie_wop said:
Darth Tigris said:
Scoobes said:
Darth Tigris said:

Seriously, man, you're the only person here that is not acting reactionary.  

Kudo is likely a very smart guy to have gotten where he is, so paying attention to what he MEANS is the most important thing.  Instead overly sensitive gamer types here respond like he called their mother a ho.  Same thing on Kotaku and neoGAF.  Sad state we're in ...

Thing is, when you're in his position, you can't make such blundering PR statements as the gaming media feed on this stuff.

His overall point may have been somewhat valid but he has to choose his words more carefully. At the end of the day, that single sentence is false, even if his overall point is valid.

But what he said isn't factually wrong, just a quick generalization.  If we look at just sales, is it wrong to say that 90 % of FPS games sales are on the consoles?  This is VGChartz.  It wouldn't take much to settle that.  Unless PC game sales aren't tracked for some strange reason . . .

PC games aren't tracked.... I don't get what your trying to say. Unless you have some sort of proof to back your percentage, then your generalization is irrelevant. He also said that 'hardly' anyone plays FPS on PC anymore, which isn't true at all, if over 500,000 people play FPS on PC's a day, then I don't think that is an insignificant amount. I'd even go so far as to say that more people play PC FPS online than PS3 FPS online and yet I'd bet that if we cancelled out all the FPS sales that the PS3 sales have gotten this gen, it make FPS on consoles much more insignificant. The FPS genre on PC is still popular and just because consoles  have a couple of big FPS's (Halo and COD), it doesn't negate the PC's big FPS's (TF2, Crysis, Counter Strike, Left 4 Dead 1 &2, Battlefield etc). Kudo is an ass, people should stop defending his every word just because he backs the console they prefer.

It was a throwaway comment in a LARGER point he was making and all we're doing is focusing on the throwaway comment.  Sorry, but I think that's petty and unfair.

The reality is that bloggers and faux journalist make their living off of traffic grabbing, inflammatory headlines that generate strong emotional reactions in people.  That's why we're talking about this instead of the point of the article from where this quote was taken.  We're acting like a bunch of tools and blaming Kudo for it.  People are even attacking him wearing sunglasses, even though he has a condition called photophobia that forces him to wear them.

Its not about defending Kudo.  Its about defending his overall point.  I won't pick apart you listing a bunch of multiplatform FPS games as big PC FPS's because that's missing the point of what you're saying.  It annoys me when people do that because its like they're just LOOKING for something to take a shot at someone for.  We should be better than that.