As I remember, it wasn't against the Super Bowl, but rather shown on ESPN2 at 2:00 in the morning so people could tape it (or losers could stay up, I guess). I'm pretty sure ESPN was showing some sort of football retrospective during the Super Bowl. Y'know, so die-hards can get MORE FOOTBALL during the commercials.
-Kyle Orland
While I do think the Post article was "obviously false and irresponsible," that wasn't really the point of my post on the Ombudsman. As I say in my post, "it's not really my place on this blog to argue with opinions; it's an editorial, and the author is entitled to make whatever arguments he wants." The comparison to an fictional Enquirer piece was to show how the Post is not a very well-respected paper, and therefore not worthy of much concern no matter the content.
"Even though Nintendo is probably losing money now on the GameCube, this is the move that Nintendo may be hoping will close the little gap between Xbox and GameCube in worldwide sales, and help it gain a solid lead over Microsoft in the coming months."
Actually, Nintendo doesn't want to close the gap between XBox and Gamecube in worldwide sales... because that would make their lead smaller. I get my facts from this GameSpy article which Slashdot linked to less than a week ago.
GameCube worldwide sales: 9,550,000
XBox worldwide sales: 9,400,000
Granted this is not a "solid lead," but it is a lead, and one that Nintendo would want to extend, not close. If you're talking about Europe or America, Nintendo is in third, but in Japan, they're in a commanding second. Any comments about worldwide sales should reflect this.
I'm surprised how many sites are using this one piece of news to declare that "the romance is over" between hollywood and silicon valley. Here's my take on the way this story is being reported.
I seem to remember J.C. Herz making a lot of the same comparisons in here book "Joystick Nation." Not in as much detail, of course, but the idea was already there.
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As I remember, it wasn't against the Super Bowl, but rather shown on ESPN2 at 2:00 in the morning so people could tape it (or losers could stay up, I guess). I'm pretty sure ESPN was showing some sort of football retrospective during the Super Bowl. Y'know, so die-hards can get MORE FOOTBALL during the commercials. -Kyle Orland
While I do think the Post article was "obviously false and irresponsible," that wasn't really the point of my post on the Ombudsman. As I say in my post, "it's not really my place on this blog to argue with opinions; it's an editorial, and the author is entitled to make whatever arguments he wants." The comparison to an fictional Enquirer piece was to show how the Post is not a very well-respected paper, and therefore not worthy of much concern no matter the content.
"Even though Nintendo is probably losing money now on the GameCube, this is the move that Nintendo may be hoping will close the little gap between Xbox and GameCube in worldwide sales, and help it gain a solid lead over Microsoft in the coming months."
Actually, Nintendo doesn't want to close the gap between XBox and Gamecube in worldwide sales... because that would make their lead smaller. I get my facts from this GameSpy article which Slashdot linked to less than a week ago.
GameCube worldwide sales: 9,550,000
XBox worldwide sales: 9,400,000
Granted this is not a "solid lead," but it is a lead, and one that Nintendo would want to extend, not close. If you're talking about Europe or America, Nintendo is in third, but in Japan, they're in a commanding second. Any comments about worldwide sales should reflect this.
-Kyle Orland
The Video Game Ombudsman
...can be found on my weblog -Kyle Orland
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I'm surprised how many sites are using this one piece of news to declare that "the romance is over" between hollywood and silicon valley. Here's my take on the way this story is being reported.
I seem to remember J.C. Herz making a lot of the same comparisons in here book "Joystick Nation." Not in as much detail, of course, but the idea was already there.
-Kyle Orland
The Video Game Ombudsman