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> To Next-Gen-Gamer

No offence, but what you write shows that you have zero life experience. Have you ever work in large business environment like Sony?　Flipping burgers in McDonalds does not count.

This news means absolutely nothing for Sony or anybody else.

Let me tell you kid, people are quitting such jobs for many reasons. Number of pre-orders or failure of some project is rearely a reason for quitting - something always goes wrong, that the nature of this business.

The most typical reason for quitting is age: look at the guy he is over 50. He probably really tired of this rat race and after saving 3-4 millions while working for Sony, just wants to take it easy for a while. you know sail on his yaht somwehere. may be his wife wants to spend time with him. may be he got cancer. who knows.

these people are not owned by the company. they have thier own dreams, wishes and plans and it has nothing to do with success or failure of corporation. everyone quits at some point and sony knows that. they work in a team, so there is always someone to take things over. not a big deal, he is not uniquie in any way.

becides, he heads Sony sales for whole UK, which handles TV, cameras, everything. PS3 is handled SCEE, he probably does not have much to do with PS3 at all.

Wow, with recent posts pspfanboy web site has become an official advocate of piracy. Well at least there is less crap about "poor homebrewers who just want to make things on PSP".

Homebrew is all about stealing games and that is the only reason why these guys are cracking PSP. Do you really think that Alex dude spending all this time just so that some kid can write another crappy pac-man game? And that hurts PSP and i wish this web site at least stopped gloating over every time PSP hacked.

loresticks: 100 000 units on FIRST DAY. Blue dragon has been on sale for few weeks already. Learn how to read, kid.

Sorry Andrew, but this whole story is a proof that people ARE idiots. I was shocked that ANYONE would think that this is a real blog run by some guys at thier free time. I mean look at the freaking URL!

People who "discovered" that this is a viral ad ("duh") and complained about it are stupid. The shocking revelation is that how many people are stupid not that Sony tries to advertize its products in any possible media and format. That what business do.

If Sony really wanted to dupe people with blogging it would create some privately held blog company, called something like Webblogs, Inc., open a blog called say "joypad" and then hired a bunch of kids to write for $5 an hour and a professional editor who would make sure that what they write is generally along the lines what company needs. You know what I mean? And that thing would be cheaper then one Bravia TV commercial.

And talking about ads: nice job trying to plug your companys blogs, why you do not say "read Kotaku and 1up"? Complaining about Sony, huh? Well pspfunboy is OK, but Joystick has became such shit, I stopped reading it compleately. Kotaku is now much better. Highly recommended.

> So yeah, imagine an iTunes store offering PS1
> games, TV shows and a whole lot of music, and all that
> not only for iPods, but also for PSPs, and a firmware
> upgrade allowing to buy music, videos and games from
> the PSP itself. Ah, I know Sony won't do it. It's so
> obvious.

Claudius and why are you blaming Sony exactly? Apple would never allow for it.

Apple does not even allow to play content from iTunes on MP3 players other then iPOD. The whole iTune thing is a totally Apple propriatery closed system developed to force you into buying iPods.

But yeah lets blame Sony for everything!

100% agree with ninja. According to the LAW Sony is right and Lik Sing business is illigal. Do not like it? Complain to your government, not to Sony.

@Aeron

Meaningless argument. What is your trust based on? Did you examine thier data collection methods? Do you know these people? The history is littered with "trusted" companies that turned out to be compleate scums. You believe them for no other reason that you WANT to belive them. You can as well beleieve in Santa.

And I do not say that they are pronintendo: it does not make you any money to be pro-something. But they could easily be a viral project run by a PR company, similar to some trade magazine.

And the point is not sales numbers really. Yes, DS Lite sells more then PSP in Japan, that does not bother me at all. Apple sells even less Macs compared to PCs and so what? Who gives a crap. The problem is with "gaming community" that has zero ability to think critically and agnozises about some numbers that noone knows where came from.

@ Powerbomb

And this is just an example. First, i doubt that you can read Japanese, so you conclusions that its like Amazon is pure fantasy. These are real retail stores similar to Circuit City, that where i bought my PS3 two days ago. They publish real sales in the store on their web sites, preorder (which here means that you pay for the game in advance) is a sale to them as well. Second, Media Create claims that they track sales of games IN GENERAL. that must incluse on-line sales as well and if they do not include on-line sales then thier numbers are just total bullshit. Who cares where they game was sold on-line ot in store. Finally, i do not know what you mean by "in the hands of the customer" but Media Create simply tracks sales in the store, which means it reports what stores told them. If stores report games that they are going to be mailed to customers in a couple of weeks then Media Create will report it as it has no means to check what stores tell. Heck, stores can tell anything: i can not see on the web site of Media Create if and how they are veryfing data.

Media Create report = some numbers written by some guys which they got noone knows how that we are suppoused to believe, becasue of what?

I always enjoy reading sales figures that Joystiq sites publish, being always amazed about precision of this data - down to one single unit! It also often looks bogus to me.

Can anybody explain me what kind of credibility this company (Media Create) has and why exactly all Joystiq sites put so much trust into them? Are there any reasons to thik that these guys from Media Create do not simple pull these numbers out of thin air, i.e. simply make them up? Becides crappy web site which seems has been done by someone on his/her kitchen; the web site does not say much on how they collect thier data, which stores they call and what parts of Japan they cover. I started wondering about them becasue there were few cases when thier data smelled very fishy.

There some other sources of such data: these are huge, massive electronics chains that sell games in Japan. These are BIC CAMERA, YODABASHI CAMERA and TSUTAYA. We can safely assume that 70-80% of all games sales goes through them, these people are one every corner of every city. They publish top 10 ranking every week as well.

If we compare data from Media Create with these companies we will see that they have significant differences. I am looking only on game sales here.

This is an overal top games sales data from Yodabashi camera:

http://www.yodobashi.com/enjoy/more/productslist/cat_219_24783042/8209161.html

You can see that it has _nothing_, even remotely close to the data that Media Create reports. There are much fewever DS titles more PS and PS2 titles and PSP titles are complestely different.

This is top 10 from Tsutaya:
http://lx02.www.tsutaya.co.jp/catalog/book/genre.pl?item=176&gr1=27
again nothing even close to Medea Create. But also very different from Yodabashi.

BIC camera does not run overall list of games but it runs games by the platform. For example in PSP:
http://www.biccamera.com/bicbic/jsp/w/check/recommend.jsp?DISP_CATEGORY_ID=572030&BACK_URL=game/index.jsp
The top sales in PSP is Metal Gear Solid (preoders) not ACE Combat as in Medea Create. On Media Create list Metal Gear Solid does not exist while ACE Combat is only 4th on BIC CAMERA.

The DS top list from BIC CAMERA is also interesting, unlike Media Create it does not even feature New Mario Brothers, which also correlates wuth my observations: that is over and done with, no body buys it here anymore. Its an old game. On Media Create it in the top 6. How this is possible?

At the same time Meda Create misses a bunch of titles that just came out in Japan and are popular, such as camera software and GPS. This popularity is sporadic, and wil go down soon, but Media Create is one-week based list, it should show something new, not the same old bullshit like Mario Brothers and Gundam. Games are much more dynamic business.

Basically, I doubt credibility of this site and all their reports on game/hardware sales. I do not think they are reliable. That would also explain why data game sales in the US is so different from Japan. It may also explain the mystery of the gap between shipped and sold, i.e. where are those millions of PSPs are floating. Finally, it will also explain why i can not many references on them in JAPANESE game news. It seems that mostly forigehn websites and blogs that are referring them.

@LRV

Yes, you are correct. I misread Zerocorpse comment, he was talking about compleatly different thing and I apologize.

I do like to act like a total dick when I think I am right. I do not see anything wrong with that, except for the cases when I am wrong, like now.

@Zerocouprs

If you are that stupid (or dirt poor) that you can not come up with any method to copy content of one drive to another drive, then you should not get PS3. Go buy your Wii and shut the fu!c up, moron.