Xbox 360 Vs. Playstation 3 2012 - *February* Update

[Dodece]

@binary solo

You are making the case for the democratization of knowledge. Which may sound noble in principle, but isn't always necessarily just. What allowance are you making for fairness, or reasonable compensation. When one puts in greater effort shouldn't they be entitled to a greater reward. Especially when the effort didn't have a guaranteed return for the investment of time. This isn't at all rhetorical. If I put hundreds of hours of time into researching a subject should I not be entitled to using that information for self gain. Especially if that gain comes at a cost to nobody else.

You are assuming my information is singular. Why not assume it is the opposite, and that it is cumulative. That it is the end result of hard won knowledge accumulated over the span of months and years. In the end what I know is not unknowable. It just takes a good deal of due diligence, and that is something everyone is capable of doing. So it isn't necessarily a unfair advantage. Just one I saw fit to give myself through hard work. While some of what I do know may come from singular sources. That doesn't mean I forgo vetting, cross checking, and devising newer methodologies.

Such as devising a way to track console failure rates. Which is what a few friends and I did during the summer. In what way is it unfair for me to know that the 360 is seeing a failure rate three hundred to four hundred times what it was last year in the month of September, or that the PS3 failure rate actually managed to go down in that exact same month. Which actually doesn't reflect the quality of the products mind you. Since the 360 is used to play games much more then the PS3. It doesn't take anything special to draw the line between that failure rate, and a corresponding increase in console sales.

This is not a question of just knowing one thing, but a whole myriad of things. Which is why I was willing to make my wager. I would be pretty fucking stupid if I was just working off of one piece of date. So there I gave you just a small little nugget. There ain't no way I am going to give you the keys to the mine. Seriously how do you think you do not have to earn something like that.