| TendoAddict said: I'd rather them say that they couldnt tell rather then spew a bunch of turds them have them be painfully wrong. We have patcher for that. |
Agreed. But that's not what they did. The Screen Digest Group did tell us what would happen, and were disastrously wrong ("spewed a bunch of turds", to use that colorful phrasing). And now that they've been proven so badly incorrect, they want to pretend they never made a prediction in the first place. I don't know why a couple of the posters here have been jumping to defend that kind of disgraceful corporate doublespeak. If the Screen Digest Group had been correct in their predictions, you can bet they'd be trumpeting it to high heaven.
Again, why is it so hard to admit that they made a mistake? Everyone is wrong sometimes. That's how we, as human beings, learn and grow as individuals. I would have no problem if this group simply acknowleged that they had tried to predict the market previously, made some erroneous assumptions, and were now waiting to make a further prediction. However, they are trying to pretend that the market is simply impossible to predict period, which is hypocritical to say the least. It's one or the other: either you can predict the outcome of the console wars, or you can't. A company certainly can't predict the outcome, be wrong, then back up and say "sorry, it's impossible to predict". That contradicts all logic!
If I hadn't posted their previous prediction, would any of you even know that they had made a (very bad) estimate of the market at all?
End of 2008 totals: Wii 42m, 360 24m, PS3 18.5m (made Jan. 4, 2008)
