Kotaku flops hard on Japanese sales comprehension
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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
that always cracks me up. you made my morning
metalslimer
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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.
A correction that invalidates the entire premise of the article, so why leave the post up at all? Kotaku is terrible.
True, but I don't think the central tenet of this thread is people being in denial about that.
It may actually have...
Haunted
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James Scott
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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
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
Thats some super saiyan weeboo shit
That's next level... god damn
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
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.
E_Darkness
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But with a pie chart.
RipperGrim
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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.
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.
And he lives there too...
KojiKnight
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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.
ColossalLazy
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Yup. Owning up to your mistakes is the right thing to do. A shame some people hide their mistakes and pretends nothing happened.
Pro from Dover
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There's shit in this post. Old shit. It's all old and white like dog poo from the 70's.
Blood Diamonds
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Or get it right first time around, which ever is easiest I guess.
Aces&Eights
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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.
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.
What the fuck?