mrstickball said:
I was saying if it ever did happen. What if a major business/financial publication quoted the very inaccurate story that was on VGC a week ago, about MGS4 first-day sales? The "news" ended up being off...A lot, yet was considered a top-tier story. It's kind of like a news channel constantly reporting news, facts, and figures, and then going back and changing them later on when someone else reports them. It's not a good model to live by. VGC is doing a lot of good, going for a community-based prediction system like TSE (and their owner has gone on to head up major software/entertainment analysis comapnies), but as long as the model isn't working, you lose credibility, and that's never, ever a good thing in the field of analysis - if you lose credibility, you'd lose your job. |
That's what I thought too, it's a good thing that no one reported on it, it wasn't dugg, and the only people that really read it were the people on the site.
Had it been dugg or anything like that, the backlash could have been monumental, seeing as that European data was at best, a weak estimate. I'd hope the analysis team at VGC have learned the lesson of being absolutely positively sure of data before posting it, rather than being the first to post it, or "exclusive", as the News post proclaimed. I'd take accuracy over being "first" anyday.
