I had a scary thought about the Vita.

[Dodece]

Now you are trying to be intentionally oblique. I sussed out the best possible source. Data provided by a reputable research firm, and if professionals and companies trust their analysis. Including major national television news outlets. Then as a lay person it should be good enough for you. We aren't talking about any doubt here. We are talking about what amounts to reasonable doubt, and this data passes that smell test with flying colors. Sites like 1up positively wreak in comparison, but you didn't have problems with propping them up as proof of your claims.

I also take issue with your proxy attack of trying to discredit Develop. You didn't even seem to know about this site until I brought it to your attention, and a couple paragraph blurb about market analysis grade information that was provided to them. Doesn't qualify as poor professionalism or journalism. They didn't offer up a commentary. They just relayed some interesting factual evidence they received. Don't attack the innocent, because you are having problems articulating a good argument.

No my estimates aren't overblown. You just don't like what they mean. You want to hide within miniscule details that deep down you know add up to at least what I proposed. You probably know that the physical media for this device probably costs about five dollars per cart, and that packaging probably costs a dollar. You probably know that Sony's own licensing fees cost a few dollars per copy, and that a decent marketing campaign. Including print, television, internet, and other promotions. Probably cost millions of dollars. You know all of this, but you will just run and hide behind the fact that this information isn't public. Regardless of how reasonable the numbers are.

I have seen this little game played before countless times. You just want to nitpick and fritter away precious time. In the vain hope that if you screw around long enough ignoring the big picture. That it will somehow magically go away. Which is that big games cost big money, and they sell big amounts accordingly. Cheaper games will sell less on the whole. So the situation just scales up and down, but the trend remains. You haven't dug up anything that couldn't be spat out on a first search attempt.

By the way I didn't bring other genres of games into this discussion or other platforms for that matter. You are once again attacking by proxy. The 360 doesn't have shit to do with this, and neither do first person shooters, and I don't have to go out of my way to defend commentary that I didn't make. Which you probably wish I had. It is kind of funny that the first part of your commentary is on topic, but the last bit is actually off topic. I also never questioned the personal taste of any one else, and I sure as hell didn't call anyone stupid.

All I have done is given the owners the credit they deserve. Sony are the ones who marketed this platform as a console on the go. I didn't create the justification for this hardware. Sony created the justification. That they ought to try to live up to. The owners shouldn't settle for less, and they shouldn't have to. Maybe you are happy with the idea of lowering the bar, but Sony are the ones who set the bar high to begin with.