Bodhesatva said:
Hello Bruce! I must say, I'm a bit puzzled by your posts, Bruce. 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 lead me to believe you were a teenager until I read your autobiography. Your lack of 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 pointing out your encylopic 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. 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 repeateldy by the time of this posting (Oct. 17, according to your website) that they were producing 1.8 million Wiis a month. How could an industry professional not know this? If you are a professional industry analyst, how could rudimentary information like production quotas evade your notice? 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. |
This November article in my blog discusses Nintendo production quotas: http://www.bruceongames.com/2007/11/28/wii-mania/
