| ioi said: About the MGS thing – I think (as ever) people are misunderstanding and that is exactly what annoys me about this article. We made day 1 projections for MGS4 just like we have done with other big games lately. We had solid Japan and Americas data and sketchy European data but went ahead with the story concentrating on the American data and the hardware boost seen. We made some educated estimates for some of the Euro regions (as we often have to for software anyway) and I sent Louie an email about it. Initially there was a misunderstanding and he published 1.5m when it should have been 1.3m, that was quickly cleared up. When the final data has come in, we were spot on with America and Japan (unsuprisingly) but our day 1 data was too high for Europe – UK in particular came in much lower than we expected based on what we had heard. The actual day 1 figure was ~1.15m, a little lower than the 1.3m we put out but still pretty reasonable. We were spot on with the 3x boost in American HW and right about worldwide doubling (read – small boost in Europe). The only thing about the article that wasn’t right was we overextrapolated for Europe day 1. This I explained to Simon when he quizzed me on it the other day and then this article was posted which has taken everything out of context. Don’t really see anything dumb about it, just some creative journalism. |
It turns out that the real story here is not YOU, it's all about trying to get Neogaf members to visit Gamasutra. From what I make of it, JVM put pressure on the person from Gamasutra (his coworker or it could even possibly be himself who actually knows?) to try and write a smear campaign against this site to drive hits to their own site. They create the story under false pretense, post it on their site and then run to Neogaf to advertise their story to get hits. It's a marketing ploy. The fact that the Gaf members are too dim witted to realize this is quite funny.
Here read this quote taken from JVM: Disclosure: I write occasionally for Gamasutra. I reviewed a draft of the article before it was posted. I also write a monthly column for Next-Gen.biz which depends almost exclusively on NPD data.
Normal Gaf precedence would state that the entire thread should be locked and deleted.
Prepare for termination! It is the only logical thing to do, for I am only loyal to Megatron.
