I'm done with Joystiq. From now on I'm VGChartz 4 life!

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redspear on 20 December 2007

Rubang B said:
@sieanr, Oh yeah I forgot about that article. What a fucking jackass Cole was, arguing that the console that loses its manufacturer the most money is the greatest value to the consumer? I'd like him to explain that to the countless retirement homes picking up Wiis so they can stay active and social, or to everybody who's going to lose weight with Wii Fit, or get the Wii-exclusive gaming heaven that is Brawl. I always figured he left Joystiq because after a few million more Wii sales his head exploded. More than any Nintendo hater, he seemed like the guy who had some sort of ulcer that acted up at every Wii sale.

Remember when he reviewed the Wii before it came out and he was bitching about the projector and ad libbing friends remarks. I swear it was as if Hus was reviewing the Wii. Or how cole woudl always say he had an MBA from Whartons? whatever that conifdence in sales by profit or loss article was a joke. But the man did love him some graphs.

Joystiq used to be a lot of fun where you had some serious flame wars or you had informative posts but today all it is

PosterN: Great Sales

PosterS: Shut fanboy

PosterN: no you shut up

PosterM:both of you Shut Up

PosterN:OMGZ Haloz 3!

Poster1:WTF does have to do with anything

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redspear on 20 December 2007

Chadius said:

Rubang B said:
@sieanr, Oh yeah I forgot about that article. What a fucking jackass Cole was, arguing that the console that loses its manufacturer the most money is the greatest value to the consumer? I'd like him to explain that to the countless retirement homes picking up Wiis so they can stay active and social, or to everybody who's going to lose weight with Wii Fit, or get the Wii-exclusive gaming heaven that is Brawl. I always figured he left Joystiq because after a few million more Wii sales his head exploded. More than any Nintendo hater, he seemed like the guy who had some sort of ulcer that acted up at every Wii sale.

Heh, I remember that article, Penny Arcade pointed out how full of FAIL it was. Then Cole posted an update where he...well said the same thing in the first article. It was the dumbest argument ever. I mean, most products are sold at a profit, why shouldn't consoles be? lol

He was trying to make a jab at Nintendo no more how faulty the logic.

But the Jist of hsi argument(Yeah I know he had one if you could believe it) was:

There has been a trend in video games called lossleading where companies make money back from software.

If Nintendo had true confidence in there machine they would sell it at a loss but since they don't and sell it at a profit than that must mean that Nintendo thinks they will fail and therefor will fail.

Where both MS and Sony are confident enough to give you a console at a loss since they think they will win and therefor will do better than Nintendo who is not trying.

Yup seems perfectly soudn to me^{On opposite day}