The amount of April Fools joke this year is not good. There were a few believable ones but at the rate that they are popping up today, it just makes you wonder how fake they can be with so many news popping up in one day - today.

There is :

1. BREAKING - Microsoft Lowers Xbox 360 Arcade Console To $129

2. Brett - the guiness world record breaking game which sold a massive 47 million on its first day.

    http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=30881

3. Final Fantasy VII On PSN In May

    http://zconnect.org.uk/?action=news&article=266

4. Secret Multiplayer Characters Revealed in KZ2 (after patch 1.21)

    http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=66338

5. Sony's big announcement: First picture of PSP2!

    http://translate.google.com/translate?ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fps3life.nl%2Fnieuws%2F3198-voetnoot-van-sony-s-grote-aankondiging-eerste-plaatje-van-psp2%2F&sl=nl&tl=en (im not sure about this but i have a feeling that this is another joke)

6. Kojima Productions got everyone fooled!

    http://metalgearsolid.org/News/Latest/kojima-productions-got-everyone-fooled.html

7. Shenmue 3 is announced ! how come all the long awaited game gets announced on 1 April ?

    http://gamereactor.se/nyheter/17428/Shenmue+3+%E4ntligen+utannonserat/

8. how about Halo 4 ? wow..

    http://www.gamed.nl/view/57210/0/2

Ok im pooped. but it just isnt interesting anymore when you are trying to pull an april fools joke but it come across as so lame. try harder and make us laugh harder!

Meh I hate april fools really the stupidity of jokes in internet or TV is insulting.

eh. I heard a few good ones today, but most of those are stupid.

To be honest I think the april fools do more harm to the site than the cheap laughs they generate. If Brett wants this site to be more respected and trusted (as I'm sure we all do) then popping fake 360 pricecuts on the first page etc is the wrong way to do it and just provides more ammunition for those who like discredit and insult VGChartz.

That isn't Brett or VGChartz. Instead that was Popzarra who post things from their website over hear. Personally I thought it was stupid of them to do that because of people like you thinking it was VGChartz or their staff.

Why did Brett allow it though, why did he not delete them.

Its his website after all. He should ultimately be in control of things like these. He is still culpable.

who knows. Maybe he doesn't care, or maybe he hasn't been on the website other than to put up numbers. Either way there is no reason to pull the article now as most people have probably already seen it.

here are the comments from popzara though... They didn't take too kindly too it.

^{_{April 01, 2009, 03:20:14 AM DirtyRainMonster wrote:
Bull...and first}}

^{_{April 01, 2009, 03:36:41 AM Mike Thorin wrote:
Yo, is this for real, or April Fool's? I'd like to know because I'm planning on buying a 360 this week. Could you please email me about it?}}

^{_{April 01, 2009, 04:54:50 AM Derek wrote:
yeah me too. let me know... I fuc*ing hate April fools garbage...}}

<sup><sub>April 01, 2009, 07:35:24 AM Jonathan wrote:
This is bull crap.

Any ways - go buy your console . . . retailers accept returns for 30 days, so if they drop the price you'll be covered.

But this is bull crap. $129 is not possible for Xbox, and their sales don't require that they lower the price right now . . . if sales were languishing then they'd worry . . . but I believe they were up 50% over last year with the most recent NPD numbers.

$129 . . . ha . . . I'm dumping my MS stock if that's true. Not sure about companies giving away their merchandise like that. . .</sub></sup>

^{_{April 01, 2009, 09:15:40 AM Todd Rundgren wrote:
Do not believe this story. This blogger has a history of intentionally disseminating misinformation to drive web traffic. I encourage all visitors to spam his site with negative comments.}}

Check the wikipedia home page.

How about www.psxextreme.com, ben dutka posted an article o there PS3 DROPS to $299 new 160gb SKU announced with partial b/c for 80% of ps2 games an will be priced at $399 comes into effect on monday 6th april, i had to laugh my ass off at that 1, had alot of Psxe users fooled LMFAO