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mornelithe on 23 February 2015
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ohmylanta1003 said:
mornelithe said:

Yeah, makes sense.  Make your website's sole purpose irrelevant, because you can't handle complaints on a message board.  That's an entirely legit thing to do heh.


But a significant amount of people bitch about it every fucking time with often times no basis. Lots of the time, it's just "a feeling". You're on a sales website to discuss the sales of each console/game. Not the inaccuracy of the numbers on the site.

So what?  You're telling me that after 10 years, and 520 weeks in the industry, IoI hasn't gotten used to the fact that people will critique the numbers?  I mean, shouldn't that be something you get accustomed to after...maybe, I don't know, year 2?

That aside, it's not up to you to determine what is and isn't fair game for discussion with regards to sales estimates (Mods, or IoI himself will tell us if we're approaching a no-no topic).  Additionally, when certain trends are set for months on end, and the numbers still don't bear out those trends, critique is certainly expected, if not warranted.  Are some people a bit too emotional about it?  Sure.  But, welcome to the internet.  If you haven't figured out how to ignore the overly emotional, then you're doing it wrong.

It should also be noted, that some of the complaints are rather valid.  I mean, even if a bit misinformed.  The discrepancy between IoI's numbers, and Sony's sold to consumers statement, is indicative of that.  Yes, most of us who cared enough to ask, know that it was because the report on those numbers, lacked the itemization IoI needed to break things down.  However, I consider no numbers at all, a better alternative to putting up knowingly false numbers, simply because you lack the itemization needed (Which may, in fact, be why numbers take longer these days).