2008 at Bruceongames

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Bruceongames said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Cousens is upset because he knows he can't compete with Nintendo on the Wii, his company's games are garbage by comparison, so he fears a Nintendo dominated market

 

He also has 25 years industry experience. That is 25 years of working 40+ hour weeks, knowing all the key people and making a lot of important decisions. His nail clippings contain more game industry knowledge than several people on this forum put together. As has been demonstrated in this thread. Yet you think you know better. I bet you do brian surgery and design halon colliders in your spare time. There is a massive difference between fanboys and industry professionals but you don't have the education to realise it.

Hello Bruce!

I must say, I'm a bit puzzled by your posts. Not your positions: those would be fine if they seemed to come from well founded analysis, but you have provided no data whatsoever to support your position (do you have any data? I would be absolutely interested in seeing it if you did!), but instead, your posts seem to lack the professionalism and logical rigor you seem to constantly insist you have.

Again, I'm not even talking about the actual arguments themselves here. Little things, like massive syntactical and grammatical errors in your posts -- "brian surgery" is an irony that's a bit difficult to ignore -- or your use of lots of exclamation points!!!! after your topic titles, which actually led me to believe you were a teenager until I read your autobiography. Your poor sentence structure and punctuation would be fine if you were such a teenager (we've seen much worse around here, I'm sure you know), but given your consistent history of pointing out your knowledge and professionalism, it's rather odd that you can't put coherent sentences together on a consistent basis. Do you proofread posts? You should -- you are, apparently, a professional, and this is your field.

But the poor grammar, which initially led me to assume you're a teenager, is only the tip of the ice berg: you lack critical knowledge that frankly shocks me. For example, in this post you claim not to know what Nintendo's production quota is, even though they had announced repeatedly by the time of this posting (Oct. 17, according to your website) that they were producing 1.8 million Wiis a month. Why did an industry professional not have this information? If you are a professional analyst, how could rudimentary information like production quotas evade your notice? I ask these questions honestly, because I would assume that such basic data woudl be the cornerstone of rigorous analysis. And of course, this doesn't even approach complex analysis such as geographical breakdowns of sell through or attach rates by genre or any other statistic that may be more difficult and time consuming to calculate. I noticed several other instances where you seemed to lack knowledge I would assume as a given for a professional industry analyst, and it's discouraging to see you unaware of (seemingly) essential statistical information, even of the basic kind.

Lastly, I noticed you did not respond to two key posts in this thread, which I thought were particularly insightful and worthy of discussion on your part, and it is always discouraging to see a poster of any kind -- let alone a professional in the inudstry -- ignore the more pointed questions that may challenge their point of view. I shall quote them for you below in a separate post, for purposes of readability.