Ipse dixit

http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/email-about-zeldas-decline/

They really mixed up the name.

Anyway, it doesn't. The worst thing I can find about VGC's Data is their pretty bad Pre-Order Sales. *Horrible SS Memories* *Shutters*

NintendoPie said: They really mixed up the name. Anyway, it doesn't. The worst thing I can find about VGC's Data is their pretty bad Pre-Order Sales. *Horrible SS Memories* *Shutters*

Then I'm lucky, I find pre-order numbers pretty boring, so I' never disappointed by them!   

Anyway the crow is strong with Malstrom in his acid answer to that letter, and when VGC numbers clash with his theories, undigested crow creates firedamp in his bowels and the explosion is unavoidable.   

Alby_da_Wolf said: NintendoPie said: They really mixed up the name. Anyway, it doesn't. The worst thing I can find about VGC's Data is their pretty bad Pre-Order Sales. *Horrible SS Memories* *Shutters* Then I'm lucky, I find pre-order numbers pretty boring, so I' never disappointed by them!    Anyway the crow is strong with Malstrom in his acid answer to that letter, and when VGC numbers clash with his theories, badly digested crow creates firedamp in his bowels and the explosion i unavoidable.

O_O I don't understand anything you just spoke to me...

NintendoPie said: Alby_da_Wolf said: NintendoPie said: They really mixed up the name. Anyway, it doesn't. The worst thing I can find about VGC's Data is their pretty bad Pre-Order Sales. *Horrible SS Memories* *Shutters* Then I'm lucky, I find pre-order numbers pretty boring, so I' never disappointed by them!    Anyway the crow is strong with Malstrom in his acid answer to that letter, and when VGC numbers clash with his theories, badly digested crow creates firedamp in his bowels and the explosion i unavoidable.    O_O I don't understand anything you just spoke to me...

To put it simply, VGC's numbers for Zelda series at least partially proved Malstrom wrong, so he ate crow and farted it too. 

That article is a reader's mail and Malstrom's answer, and the latter oscillates between anger and patronizing.

NintendoPie said: They really mixed up the name. *Shutters*

Funny.

Dallinor said: NintendoPie said: They really mixed up the name. *Shutters* Funny.

What? You mixed up that post, too.

Interesting read, though it seems flawed in many ways. For example, he seems to have an intense bias against Ocarina of Time, which actually causes him to be a hypocrite. What I mean by that is, he says that groups of people have deluded themselves into thinking that Ocarina of Time is far more popular than they think because they hung around with other people who felt the same way. Yet, one of the main ways the writer says that older Zelda games are more popular than newer ones is because he and his friends liked them so much. The article has much too personal of a tone to be entirely credible.

Biased and cherrypicked. Just like pretty much everything Malstrom writes.

*yawn*

What the hell was that?

I'm no analyst so maybe that's why I'm currently confused but a lot of that just made no sense to me.