Wikipedia Closes Wii, PS3, Sony Entries

GameSpot reports that Wikipedia has closed the next-gen console entries because of nigh-onto constant defacement from angry fanbois. From the article: "Last week the complete Nintendo company page was replaced with the phrase "Nintendo Sucks!!!!!!!!!" briefly before the Web site reloaded the original entry. Previous vandalism efforts include someone doodling on a Hitler moustache and horns on the photograph for the entry for Bill Gates, and the sentence "Microsoft is Zomg T3h Suck0r!!!!!!" briefly replacing the computer software company's page. All of the next-generation consoles make it into the company's top 40 list of most revised pages, with the Nintendo Wii at number 10 (12,780 revisions), the PS3 at number 21 (9,894 revisions), and the Xbox 360 at 25 (9,481 revisions.) Interestingly, the Wii seems to attract more conflicts of opinion on the site than the subjects of Scientology (8,475 revisions), God (7,537 revisions), and even Britney Spears (9,886 revisions.)"

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Yes, but Slashdot is so much better

[Anonymous Crowhead]

1 in 3 stories by Zonk boil down to:

OMG Sony is teh suxors! (the rest seem to be usless top ten lists these days)

1 in 4 Slashdot stories boil down to:

OMG Micro$oft is teh suxors

or

OMG GW is teh suxors

Re:Needs citation

[MindStalker]

Hell if you could prove it the church of scientology wouldn't exist at all. The book of Dianetics talks endlessly about "Scientology" and yet Hubbard wasn't initially a member nor did he belong to the church for a long time. He wrote it as some sorta crossover novel its intention was to be a "self-help" book for some alien species. It was never intended to be factual. But he thought it would be awfully clever to market it as a real book. He stupidly assumed people would understand it wasn't real.

But no I can't find anything to back it up, just what I was told by some people who lived around clearwater, fl (scientology headquarters) who wern't scientologist.

Sony on Shakey Ground But Nintendo Must Follow Up

[tilandal]

With the PS3 launch Sony has left the door open for Nintendo to sweep this generation but Nintendo must follow up. For all of its flaws Sony has put together a nice piece of hardware in the PS3. If Sony had followed up with a good price point and a strong launch I have no doubt that they would have maintained thier lead in this generation. Unfortunatly for them they have misstepped. The combination of a high price point and tight supply will keep Sony from moving enough units to take a clear lead early in the consol race. This gives Nintendo the chance to show the world that this is the DS vs PSP all over again. When the DS came out people were interested in it but skittish because it was something there were unfamiliare with. Sony could have won right here but they misjudged. The PSP was expensive and, because of an LCD shortage, Sony could not make enough units. Both the PSP and DS languished. With no killer apps on either side there was nothing to drive sales. Then, Nintendo cane out with Nintendogs and everything just clicked. It was that simple game that brought home the whole Idea of the DS. Momentum from Nintendogs drove sales of the DS which, in turn, drove sales of other software. Because the DS was simpler to make then the PSP Nintendo was able to ramp up production and they ran with it. Now the DS is outselling the PSP 5:1 in Japan. Will we see the same thing happen with the Wii VS PS3? That depends on Nintendo. It looks like high price and production problems will keep the PS3 at bay for at least 6 months. If Nintendo can come up with the killer app they can gain the momentum. With the Wii being much easier to produce Nintendo can saturate the market and take the momentum away from Sony. If Sony looses momentum it becomes very hard to justify the $250 price difference and the market will fall to Nintendo. That is only one possible outcome though. If the Killer app fails to materialize, Sony ramps up production, and they are aggresive with price cuts Sony will probably run away with the market again. If Both Nintendo and Sony flounder we may end up with no clear winner this generation. But what about Microsoft? At this point it is very unlikely that Microsoft will pull off an upset. Here is why. Microsoft is positioned uncomfortably as the middle man. Not as powerful and sexy and the PS3 and not as affordable and invoative as the Wii. Any killer app Microsoft comes up with can be pushed onto the PS3 as well. On top of that, both the PS3 and the Xbox360 do not bring anything new to the table. Although the games look better they have not been intorducing anything fundementally new. As such it is becoming more and more difficult to create that one hit game. Microsoft is also still having problems with the Japaneese market. There is no way that then can push ahead of Sony without a significant presence in the second larget Video game market.

Re:See?

[246o1]

Language trolls are small-minded idiots.

"XXXX people are funny things. Apparently there's a set of complex rules of pronunciation which are occasionally violated, God only knows how they know what they're saying to each other!"

Whatever country you are from, whatever language you speak, there will be things you say that other native speakers would say differently. In English the semi-regularity of our spelling leads some people to insist that the members of a certain group (Americans, Southerners, Welsh, Bostonians, Kiwis, blacks, whatever) don't know how to speak.

Of course, no Brits ever say "Isn't it stupid how we pronounce Worcester?" and few Ivy Leaguers from the northeast say "Ain't our taboos about completely intelligible double negatives and the word 'ain't' pretty stupid?"

Sorry for the little rant (not that /. isn't full of similar), but I was trained as a linguist and find this kind of thing sets me off now and then.