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AniHawk

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At work, I was talking to a customer about next-gen. This guy's a regular. He's there many times a week and really wants to work at the store when he's older. He was pretty excited about Xbox 360. About the Live features, about the new games, and about how it will play PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox games.

"Uh, I don't think that's going to happen," I said politely.
"It is," he said confidently, "It will play all of those games."
"If that happened, then Sony and Nintendo would come down on Microsoft hard. It'd be a very bad legal issue for them," I replied, injecting some logic into the conversation.
"No- that's the thing. Nintendo and Sony gave Microsoft permission."

At which point a coworker chimed in and sided with me.

Then today, this guy walks into the store and asks about the price of the PSP. He was a little hesitant though, because of the new handheld coming out by the people who made Xbox.

Where do these people get these ideas from? They both "knew" that what they were saying was "fact."

Also, if you have your own stories, post 'em here. They're always fun to read.
 
A couple of years ag one of my friends was certain that if he modded his xbox he'd be able to play PSX and PS2 games. I told him that it wasn't possible since the architecture of the PS2 and Xbox is different and hence not doable.

But he wouldn't listen and modded his xbox. So later I asked him if he'd tried any PS2 games on his Xbox and he kept saying that he "hadn't had the time to try it yet"
 
I really, honestly don't know. This comes up periodically, just about any time a new system is in the process of coming out.

People invent all kinds of crazy shit for what they can do. Its more like "yeah, that's what you WISH it could do."

I honestly don't know if people have something to prove by making crap up, but it seems to be such a common problem, I just can't believe it.

People need to learn to shutup if they don't know anything and quit trying to act knowledgable concerning things they haven't even bothered to actually research.
 
I remember people telling me the first Xbox was supposed to play Playstation games. I think there was very early speculation that the Xbox would play PC games as well as Xbox games, and it kind of snowballed from there.
 
Another one:

My nephew (11 years old) insists that he'll buy the new Playstation 3 as a replacement for his broken down modded PS2.

The thing is he's going to buy a PSTWO and I've told him that it's the same as his old PS2, but he keeps on saying that it's the new PS3....
 
One of my brother's friends insisted that he had the Dolphin console and that it was pyramid shaped. I really would like to know where people get this shit.
 
I don't find getting the facts wrong with games that shocking. I mean, it is games, not everyone cares that much about them. And they just get misinformed by friends or those in the know deliberately mislead them.
 
everyone i know thought the Gamecube died last year and has no new games for it
And never heard of a wave bird.
One guy bought a GC on the back of finding out what a wavebird was!!
 
my mate once said some crap about mario being on PS2 and other such nonsense. I just looked at him in the eye with a deadpan expression and said, "That's bullshit." He knew there was no room for debate and dropped the subject.
 
Scrow said:
my mate once said some crap about mario being on PS2 and other such nonsense. I just looked at him in the eye with a deadpan expression and said, "That's bullshit." He knew there was no room for debate and dropped the subject.
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Unfortunately, most of these people are so convinced that they are right, you can talk till you're blue in the face and they will still believe what they want.
 
Someone I know claimed that they had a PS2 emulator for XBOX that ran all PS2 games "perfectly".

That same guy was telling customers at EB that MGS3 was a shitty game that he finished in 5 hours. I questioned him on it, and he claims that he simply skipped the cutscenes. Digging deeper, he had a hard time remembering anything about the game. The End used mind control, The Fury required you to switch controller ports, and the bridge scene at the beginning featured helicopters firing missles at Snake. All other questions were met with similar responses. It took a while before I could get him to admit that he had never played the game nor even owned it...
 
PanopticBlue said:
Unfortunately, most of these people are so convinced that they are right, you can talk till you're blue in the face and they will still believe what they want.
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Kinda like this conversation I had at school about 2-3 years ago.

Guy: Yeah, and Star Fox is coming out on PS2.
Me: Uh... what?
Guy: The company that made Star Fox doesn't make Nintendo games anymore.
Me: Yeah. That's Rare. Nintendo still holds rights to Star Fox though, it's their property. They just lent it out to Rare like they're doing with Namco right now.
Guy: Namco could make it for PS2 then.
Me: No they couldn't. It's Nintendo's property. They own it.
Guy: But Namco makes PS2 games.
Me: Right, but they also make GC games, like Soul Calibur II.
Guy: Yeah, so they can just port it to the PS2 then.
 
There was a guy who was my friend at the time insist that PS3 was coming out late 2002. He argued until he was blue in the face. So the next day he was talking about all the games coming to PS3 and I said, "I'll bet you $100 (and I had the money) that the PS3 is NOT coming out this year." He backed down quick and never brought it up again. I didn't bother asking where to get it from since it was probably as dumb as the rumor itself.

I also bet this guy that Spiderman would do better than Episode II for $50. He lost and avoided me for the next month or so trying to weasel out. Thats the kind of people that make up bullshit facts about new consoles: people who will avoid paying up on a legitimate bet.
 
The Experiment said:
I also bet this guy that Spiderman would do better than Episode II for $50.
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In my eyes you've just lost.

PM me your email so I can give you my bank details and you can send me the money.
 
I've heard from EB employees that:

- Pokemon is coming out for Playstation ("Nintendo lost the rights")
- X company is "going out of business" and any games on their console will go to a competitor (Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Sega -- I've heard them all)
- DOA:Volleyball is coming out for PS2 (it was marked up on their release board for a late 2004 release)

I also remember hearing the "Xbox can play anything!" rumors, as well as a comment that Xbox 360 will just be "a small software upgrade" to the Xbox (this was before the Xbox 1.5 comments by Sony and probably stemmed from XNA) and probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting right now. It really is amazing how easily misinformation spreads around.
 
When I was about 10 years old, one of my friends came over to my house and started bragging on how his father went to the US and brought back the latest Nintendo system.
"Like my super nes?" I asked him "No! this is way better, the graphics are the best ever" he claimed there would be a new Mario 5 or something, and that he got over 10 games at once since his father wouldn't be going again for the next couple of years.

when i asked him if i could see it, he said his dad wouldn't allow anyone else to see it. Even after the N64 was released, he claimed the thing was something completely different. I called shenanigans on him. :lol :lol

there were some other cases in which people claimed to have new hardware which, obviously, they didn't.
 
This 50-60-year old guy comes into my store once in a while to talk at length about his magical GameCube that's able to download GC-games for free from the net and then burn them onto special disks. He sometimes buys games, so I just let him talk.
 
+Aliken+ said:
In my eyes you've just lost.

PM me your email so I can give you my bank details and you can send me the money.
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It was for the first weekend box office.

I remember the old "Sonic Adventure was coming to N64" bullshit when I got my DC the night it came out. I think I said something to the effect that he was an idiot for believing that bullshit and walked off, DC in tow (with SA). I guess he was half right.
 
My friend insisted he found the "Secret Zone" in Sonic 2 in the Hill Top Zone so I sat him down to show me. After a while I asked where it was he said he'd already passed it. Then he had to go home. He said it was a dark zone with bumpers and ghosts. Looking back on it although Sonic 2 did have cut levels none match that description apart from Genocide City Zone (being all black). He was probably talking about Sonic 1.


I also played a kid at Streetfighter 2 who insisted that using moves like Dragon Punches and Hadokens were 'cheats'. Only jumping punch and kicking were allowed. Naturally I used all my 'cheats' on him after this.
 
I just recently heard that the new Zelda is coming out for Xbox 360. Really, the new Zelda is always coming out for other systems, isn't it? That crazy Zelda.
 
Where's that Mario game for Playstation? What? What do you mean it doesn't exist, my son said he played it at a friend's house! Are you calling my son a LIAR?!
 
A Halo for PlayStation 2... The Xbox can play GameCube and PS2 games... PSP can play PS2 games...

That's all I can think of, though I'm sure there's more.
 
Sho Nuff said:
There's nothing more satisfying than pointing out the faults of others, is there?
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I believe the quote is, "there's nothing more exhilerating than pointing out the shortcoming of others, is there?"

Geez... If you're gonna quote Clerks, get it right. :)

*D'oh... Sorry for two posts in a row.
 
One of the only good things about working at GameRush for a few months was getting the latest game 'news' from overzealous customers.
 
Guy at school: PSP is way better than DS! DS is complete shit.
Me: How did you come to that conclusion?
Guy at school: PSP can play DVDs, you can listen to music and do so manyh things with it. DS is crap, it can't do any of that.
Me: Okay... let's compare the games coming out for each handheld.
Guy at school: IT'S NOT ABOUT THE GAMES MAN.
I walk back to my lesson.
 
For a while a kept hearing that the Xbox was going to have the abiity to play Sega Dreamcast games to compensate for Sony's BC of PSX games.

Instead the DC tech went into some stupid DVD player....
 
I also had someone tell me that he had a PS2 emulator for the Xbox. I said that was not possible, but he insisted. I left him in the shadows of ignorance all by himself.
 
There was this girl I knew last year who insisted that Microsoft had 70% market share in the games industry and had outsold PS2 by 40 million units worldwide. She refused to admit otherwise even in the face of sales numbers ("you don't know those are real, they could have been altered") or basic logic.

A common misinformation campaign currently being spread by numerous clueless people worldwide is, of course, that Nintendo would go out of business if it doesn't win the next-gen. You can present as much common sense and practical information to the contrary, but no -- the simple fact has been engraved into people's minds that Nintendo is in trouble due to the fact that it has a minority market share in the console marketspace.

I think a lot of it has to do with how powerful Sony and Microsoft's marketing can be sometimes. Much like the spin on Halo 2 managed to imply that it was the fastest selling game in history or that Xbox 360 will "revolutionise gaming" -- some people will just scoop it all up without using their head.

The worst thing is that this is prevalent in any industry, not just gaming. The gullible masses are a true force to be reckoned with, indeed.
 
Haha the day after Halo 2 came out a friend tried to tell me it sold 120 million copies. :lol
I tried to explain to him that the number was 4x the number of Xbox's in the fricken world. And then I come off as a smartass. I CAN'T WIN!
 
Aurora said:
Guy at school: IT'S NOT ABOUT THE GAMES MAN.
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And that's when you grab their PSP, hold it by the wrist strap, and slap them upside the head with a $250 plastic make-shift mace.

...and then poke out their eyes with your DS stylus for good measure. :lol
 
I really can't blame people for getting confused with all these formats (except for maybe EB employees). The number of different formats for playing games, music and movies are just staggering these days. It's only going to get worse.
My brother-in-law recently asked me if the GameCube plays DVDs and PS2 games.
I feel really sorry for the casual gamer this next coming generation. Their heads are going to be spinning.
 
I work at an EBgames, and let me tell you I get tons of weird shit daily.

Kids who are like "Oh man the xbox360 looks so fuckin dope, ps3 has no chance" -- and being at the e3 press conferences, right now, i'd say the ps3 is the 'fucking dope' one...

Either way, we get people who don't know things, and it's hard not to laugh -- i mean, we can't, but it doesnt stop us from conversing about it when people leave.

I think what most pepole (e.g. us) dont realize, and it's sad to say, is that these people are the casual gamer.

You sit them down with a ps2, xbox, and gamecube, and take the names away, most people won't be able to tell which system is which (moreso w/ the xbox and ps2) -- aside from the distinct markings, they couldnt tell the difference.


While we, the informed know a good percent of the industries delacacies, these people have no fucking clue, and just go on heresay, they go on what Anderson Cooper said on CNN, or what they read in their highschool newspaper; unfortunately, for us, we run into this 'gaming darwinism' and try to correct them - what does it do? It only upsets us and then we go back to our internet and make fun of them.

Interesting cycle.

By hte way, When people ask me what new system is best, or when they're coming out, they always ask about ps3 and xbox360, i always throw in a mention of revolution, and i kid you not, 99% of the time people ask wtf revolution is, and once i inform them of what nintendo's doing, they walk away saying they want nintendo... The retro titles are the strong point, everyone (well over the age of 18) grew up on that.


edit: Monday, this kid came in, and the conversation went as follows

Kid: Do you have any information about the new Zelda for GameCube you're getting soon?
Me: Yeah, it's called Twilight Princess, should be out hopefully for the holidays
Kid: no, I heard you were getting it on Thursday.
Me: ...
Kid: The wind waker remake
Me: Well TP is said to be a 'sequel' to windwaker, but no one knows that for sure.
Kid: I'll be back thursday
Me: We have nothing in our system for thursday
Kid: You're wrong
*kid leaves*

-d
 
About 6 months ago my friend's sister heard about Zelda: TP and she asked me when it was comming out so i told her that they didnt have a set date yet. Then for the next 2 weeks she asked me everyday when it was comming out only to get the same damn answer from me. So about a month ago she goes up to me and says 'o the new Zelda is comming out in July.' so of course i tell her thats not happening but she swears it is because her friend who knows absolutely nothing about games works at EB and thats what she said....even funnier than that the same friend told her that the new Zelda is OoT and MM redone and put together to make a longer game. :lol
Oh and yes my friend's sister is still asking me when TP comes out (i have straightened her out on the last part though).
 
aperfectt00l said:
About 6 months ago my friend's sister heard about Zelda: TP and she asked me when it was comming out so i told her that they didnt have a set date yet. Then for the next 2 weeks she asked me everyday when it was comming out only to get the same damn answer from me. So about a month ago she goes up to me and says 'o the new Zelda is comming out in July.' so of course i tell her thats not happening but she swears it is because her friend who knows absolutely nothing about games works at EB and thats what she said....even funnier than that the same friend told her that the new Zelda is OoT and MM redone and put together to make a longer game. :lol
Oh and yes my friend's sister is still asking me when TP comes out (i have straightened her out on the last part though).
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To be fair, our EBGames release schedule has had "Zelda WindWaker 2" for a july release for ever.. I swear, the people who update these lists (in our system) are fucking idiots.

It's still listed as WW2, and for the july release.
 
DrEvil said:
Kid: Do you have any information about the new Zelda for GameCube you're getting soon?
Me: Yeah, it's called Twilight Princess, should be out hopefully for the holidays
Kid: no, I heard you were getting it on Thursday.
Me: ...
Kid: The wind waker remake
Me: Well TP is said to be a 'sequel' to windwaker, but no one knows that for sure.
Kid: I'll be back thursday
Me: We have nothing in our system for thursday
Kid: You're wrong
*kid leaves*
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it'd be difficult to hold back even a smirk for me
 
"Que consola mas basura, el xbox solo es para juegos en linea"

What a trash console, the xbox is only for online games

By some random costumer, Dec 2001

"Ninja Gaiden 2 va a ser solo para PS3"

Ninja Gaiden 2 is an exclusive of the PS3

A friend of mine that is a die-hard PS2-anime fan, 2 days ago
 
I had one person try to convince me that he had the GC before it even came out in the US but after it came out in Japan. Seemed possible, until he was telling me had Madden and numerous US launch games that still haven't been released.
 
Something they always says and really get me bored is when people are taking the PSP for the new model PS2. Then they ask why having a third model already and also why it cost so much. You try to explain it's not a new PS2 but they never get it...
 
Dragmire said:
I just recently heard that the new Zelda is coming out for Xbox 360. Really, the new Zelda is always coming out for other systems, isn't it? That crazy Zelda.
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:lol i remember the thread on teamXbox where people were LEGITIMATELY discussing the idea that maybe Nintendo gave Rare the Zelda IP to use on a Zelda Xbox game as a "going away present".
 
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