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CD:
"1980 Compact Disc standard proposed by Philips & Sony.
1981 Matsushita accepts Compact Disc Standard
Digital Audio Disc Committee also accepts Compact Disc Standard.
Sharp achieves production of semiconductor laser.
Philips & Sony collaboration ends.
1982 Sony & Philips both have product ready to go."
http://www.oneoffcd.com/info/historycd.cfm

So atleast not completely false.

Xbox VS PS3:
I may have seen these on some sort of sony fanboy webpage or something, but atleast there they had a graph where the 360 was in lead, but if you changed the start of the graph to the same they more or less matched perfectly over time. If you are 100% sure sales for xbox360s first month compared to ps3s first month, and then second, third and so on in total was very different feel free to post source or tell so. If I'm wrong I blame a webpage which lied.
I found the page but not the correct article:
http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/
Of course it's a fanboy page, but I don't expect them to lie, only show the stuff which makes Sony look good.
Another graph: http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=129

Minidisc wasn't a failure over here atleast, I know two people who got one ;/, which may seem small but then I don't know much people. I thought it seemed nice except that you had to "record" your music, then came the NetMD which saved that but then I couldn't use it with my OS of choice, and also you had to convert all your music. Then came the Hi-MD and I would definitly have bought one of those over an MP3-player if the format of the actual data wasn't so retarded. Of course they failed when they didn't supported MP3s...

CD:
"1980 Compact Disc standard proposed by Philips & Sony.
1981 Matsushita accepts Compact Disc Standard
Digital Audio Disc Committee also accepts Compact Disc Standard.
Sharp achieves production of semiconductor laser.
Philips & Sony collaboration ends.
1982 Sony & Philips both have product ready to go."
http://www.oneoffcd.com/info/historycd.cfm

So atleast not completely false.

Xbox VS PS3:
I may have seen these on some sort of sony fanboy webpage or something, but atleast there they had a graph where the 360 was in lead, but if you changed the start of the graph to the same they more or less matched perfectly over time. If you are 100% sure sales for xbox360s first month compared to ps3s first month, and then second, third and so on in total was very different feel free to post source or tell so. If I'm wrong I blame a webpage which lied.
I found the page but not the correct article:
http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/
Of course it's a fanboy page, but I don't expect them to lie, only show the stuff which makes Sony look good.
Another graph: http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=129

Minidisc wasn't a failure over here atleast, I know two people who got one ;/, which may seem small but then I don't know much people. I thought it seemed nice except that you had to "record" your music, then came the NetMD which saved that but then I couldn't use it with my OS of choice, and also you had to convert all your music. Then came the Hi-MD and I would definitly have bought one of those over an MP3-player if the format of the actual data wasn't so retarded. Of course they failed when they didn't supported MP3s...

Come on, you aren't going to show up on metacritic with a rating system like that!

Rachet and Clank received a 10.5/10 from some much more reliable and unbiased sources...

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=301

Reading from this pro-Sony site, they claim that Toshiba is dropping out of the competition.. or at least that's the way I read it.

Too late!

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=247

I hope SonyDefenseForce doesn't find out about this.

According to Sony Defense force, Sony is outselling everyone.

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=200

Down with the unbewiivers!

http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=200#more-200

Hahaha, this time they show the Wii and the DS, but combine the 'Sony Family', PS3 and PSP, as well as PS2 I assume....ignoring the fact that if you combined the 'Nintendo Family' together, they'd beat the hell out of the 'Sony Family' in sales figures. :P And the Wii is represented by an Old Man on the graph, which is hillarious. Is this a joke site or not?

"but I wonder if Nintendo has shills trolling the /. boards?"

While I certainly can't guarantee that the answer is "no," I can point out that there is no need; note the almost complete lack of qualifiers in the statement "Wii has sold more consoles worldwide than its current-gen competitors." Not shipped, not manufactured, not in region X or region Y (though it would be interesting to see if it can pass the 360 in North America specifically), and not "in this past week." Without a need for marketspeak, there's no need for shills.

Contrast with a posting over at Sony Defense Force (a classic example of shilling/fanboyism at its worst*), which has to specify "this particular week," "in a particular market," and "more than a particular competitor" (I laughed at the absence of the Wii and the DS in the provided bar graph).

*I swear, if it's not satire and they're not on the Sony payroll, these fanboys resemble a cult so much that I'd sleep more soundly if I knew there was a covert FBI agent or two among their ranks.

Of course it doesn't, but I bet I can guess why he thinks it ought to. If you go to http://www.sonydefenseforce.com/?p=95 you will see that it claims there "the Sony platform even managed to outsell the much hyped Nintendo Wii"(using NPD numbers). But what the site author tries to make you not notice (and presumably the GP didn't notice) is that he lumps the PSP, PS2, and PS3 into one category, while not doing the same for other companies.

Though unlike the GP I wouldn't call such antics stock manipulation as fanboy-ism.