Kotaku flops hard on Japanese sales comprehension

Let's be clear. It's perfectly fine to laugh at an outlet when they're straight up wrong about something. Lol.
I have to agree, I generally defend journos when the lol gaming journalism crowd comes but this is a big goof which is entirely the authors fault
 
This is Polygon's pie chart levels of
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(And before you keep shitting all over Ashcraft, at least check out one of the other stories he ran this morning, an extensive look at more of Konami's horrible practices based on some good original reporting.)
The problem is that, every time he does something like this Devil's Third article, it makes it that much harder to take stuff like his Konami article seriously without suspecting that he might be bullshitting there too.
 
Can't we know, now that the game has been released in Japan, how many people are playing it online? It'd at least give us something to work with...
 
Brian Ashcraft should stick to his blog like stories about how lucky he is to be in Japan and has married a Japanese woman and that his kids are so Japanese that they don't even speak English.
Game Bloggu parody of Ashcraft was on point.
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A Japanese meal with a Japanese wife and a son who is -- regrettably -- half-Japanese; could life get any better?
 
I wonder if Nintendo chose Amazon JP as a partner specifically for stuff like this? Probably just a coincidence but we will likely never have Japanese sales data for the game.
I don't think anyone expects this game to sell great, or even decently. Nintendo certainly doesn't. It's also very likely to be mostly garbage too. They probably shouldn't of bothered with it
 
A correction that invalidates the entire premise of the article, so why leave the post up at all? Kotaku is terrible.

What difference does it make? The correction is visible without even clicking into the story. Nobody is being misled. It's just not that big of a deal.
 
It's a case of
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Lowest number in the charts is 1006 copies and since it didn't enter they assumed it sold less than that, without knowing that m-c/famitsu doesn't track Amazon sales. It could've sold just 1 copy, but also 2000 copies. Kotaku is gonna Kotaku.

Sounds more like something Polygon would do.
 
A correction that invalidates the entire premise of the article, so why leave the post up at all? Kotaku is terrible.

Lol I can just imagine what people would write if Kotaku actually takes the post down.

"They are just trying to hide their fuck ups. Kotaku is terrible".

Just chill bro, shit happens and people make mistakes and even less own up to them. We can all just laugh at the goofiness of it and then forget about it.
 
A correction that invalidates the entire premise of the article, so why leave the post up at all? Kotaku is terrible.
Because we see removing posts as shitty and dishonest and believe that we should acknowledge our fuck-ups instead of pretending they didn't happen. Sorry you don't like Kotaku. Feel free to read other websites.
 
I dont get how Ashcraft and other journalists have been at this for years and keep doing things to earn the reputation they rightly deserve.
 
Because we see removing posts as shitty and dishonest and believe that we should acknowledge our fuck-ups instead of pretending they didn't happen. Sorry you don't like Kotaku. Feel free to read other websites.

This. This is what you're supposed to do as a journalist. You don't just ignore your mistakes as that completely ruins your credibility. You correct it.
 
Because we see removing posts as shitty and dishonest and believe that we should acknowledge our fuck-ups instead of pretending they didn't happen. Sorry you don't like Kotaku. Feel free to read other websites.

Yup. Owning up to your mistakes is the right thing to do. A shame some people hide their mistakes and pretends nothing happened.
 
Because we see removing posts as shitty and dishonest and believe that we should acknowledge our fuck-ups instead of pretending they didn't happen. Sorry you don't like Kotaku. Feel free to read other websites.


Bravo. This is exactly what any news agency should do. Post a correction and leave original story up with an explanation as to why it is being amended. It's called transparency. Just deleting something and playing dumb is dishonest and misleading.
 
Kotaku made an honest mistake. Time to ridicule them forever.

It's not an honest mistake. All Ashcraft has to is pick up a phone and call a source for a quote -- you know, do his job -- and he'd find out how wrong he is. Kotaku is lucky Gawker's standards for reporting are somehow well beneath their benchmark.
 
Aww, why do I feel worst for Jason in instances such as this?

Oh, it's because he does good work and it sucks seeing him have to answer for his co-workers' mistakes because I know that's probably not the best position to be in.
 
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