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My point is that you have a HABIT of making proclamations and predictions WITHOUT doing the most basic fact-checking. (While attacking others for supposedly questionable statements and predictions.  Glass houses, you know?)

Here are some MORE examples of your inexcusably sloppy research, taken from your most recent argument on the subject so you can't complain.


Example 1:
If another franchise (we can only take the first 2 that came out on the same system) sells 14.88 to a user base of 15 million
: : You say Xbox has sold 15 million to date. US sales are at 16m and WW sales are at 24m so I assume you mean US only even though normally if people don't mention anything specifically it would be WW.
: : You say Halo series on Xbox (not 360) totals 14.88m. But wait! That's (6.43+8.45=14.88) WORLDWIDE TOTALS! You can't have accidentally added all three games up for US because that's (4.91+6.67+5.23) 16.81m. No, you applied WW game sales to US console sales.
: : Again, either you're deliberately misrepresenting the numbers to skew things the way you want, or you're completely incompetent.

Example 2:
But the main point of my post was that those games would not cause a major spike increase to the Ps3's sales to all of sudden make it leap and nearly triple it's sales output in the manner of their respective leads.
: : I don't know what exactly you mean by "manner of respective leads", but the PS3 is selling in the neighborhood of around 150k per week WW. In 1 year of 150k/wk we would have 7.8 million in sales, not your 3-4 million projection, and that's not even counting the holiday spike which every console gets. Triple that would put the PS3 somewhere near 30m by 2009 and I don't think anyone here was predicting that.

Let's put it in simple terms you may understand: If we begin a conversation and you initially say something that's off base and completely wrong. But immediatly based on the correction of me or others retract that statement and admit your mistake/failure/whatever and move on to the next point. But you continue to make the same damn mistakes on other numbers. That makes you ignorant and completely off base and missing the point. Which is exactly what you're doing here. You have disregarded many points of my post as well, such as the fact that comparing attach rates for a 24-million-selling console to a 100-to-120-million-selling console is treacherous ground and allowances have to be made for the different circumstances.

There is nothing wrong with the state of not knowing something, but you are PRETENDING to know things when you quite clearly do not. I don't know if nobody ever told you this, but throwing out bullshit numbers and correcting them only when you get caught is not a valid technique for building a solid argument. I know it's easier to make the other guy do all the footwork, but damn, back up your arrogance with SOME facts that can't be shown to be wrong in 30 seconds.

But I guess you'll just ignore all this, because you're "done" with me.

P.S. I had thought you implied that I was in middle school or had equivalent maturity/intelligence because: Instead of being quick to throw around secondary lunchroom buzzwords like, ignorance lies, stupid, or try and label someone a fanboy. Maybe you should've scrolled down and read more? If you meant "secondary" to mean "second-rate" or some other thing, I'm sorry for misinterpreting your statement. In my defense, it's easy to get a false positive on condescension in a post dripping with the real thing. Out of curiosity, what DID you mean by "secondary" here?

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