Ign:”Wii runs distant second to 360 in profits”...Oh really?
Friday, August 28, 2009
Ign recently ran an article about how the Wii is winning the core gamer back, but it seemed that the author didn’t have all his facts straight. Although the article was meant to be a hearty portion of Nintendo goodness, the article ran with an overlay of Microsoft bias.
There were many quotes from this article worth mentioning like: “Couldn't blame him, really. I'm the guy who's been known to lead off a column by typing "the Wii is a fad" several times in a row. Not because I personally believe it, but because it's fun to watch Nintendaddicts get Hulk-mad” and “N-fans love to shout Wii sales numbers (52.3 million units at this writing) and its total market domination (almost half of all consoles sold is a Wii) and call it good.”(although he can share his numbers “My personal Xbox/Wii game ratio stands at about 4 to 1.”)
The one we had to scratch our heads at was actually this “You really can't understate what Nintendo's accomplished with its hail Mary pass, coming off the GameCube's distant third showing, but you also can't ignore that it currently runs a distant second to Microsoft's Xbox 360 when it comes to annual profits.”
This caught our attention, could Microsoft actually be achieving more profit than Nintendo?
We had to look this up. This is what we found:
- pwn'd -
The above numbers are from the Big 3’s financial reports, and we have to ask if the author of Ign still believes what he says? As a Neogaf member once said “you can’t spell ignorant without IGN.”
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Sorry for the early mess with the thread.
Link for original article here
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