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Bruceongames said:
Bodhesatva said:

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, 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/

Thanks Bruce! Although by the time of the original post -- October 17th -- I would assume you would be aware of Nintendo's production levels, as Nintendo has been quite open about their increases in production capacity for some time. But again, this is only a single example: the numerous lapses in knowledge or intuition that I would assume an industry analyst would have (for example, even in the post you just linked, why would you be confused by Nintendo's stated goal to ship 3.5 million extra for the Christmas season? Clearly they were stockpiling supply, which could readily be inferred by simply taking worldwide shipment totals from July onward and seeing that they had not been shipping 1.8 million/month despite reportedly producing that much during that period onward). It's a bit discouring to see such basic knowledge get missed (in the former example) or somehow misinterpreted (in the latter), especially when someone so consistently points out their professional industry ties.

I would also be interested in responses to other portions of my post, if you could please! As I and others have said, I'd be interested to see the sales data and statistical analysis that led you to assume the positions you have taken.



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