Laughable mainstream reporting in todays Daily Mirror Your Money section...
In the past 12 months Sony sold 193 million Playstation2's, 54 million PSP's and 13.2 million PS3's.
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Nintendo and Microsoft are doomed I tell thee. -
I think someone has misplaced their decimal points.Comment
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The video game industry is now firmly regarded as a large, mainstream, profitable industry and hence the number of news articles in the mainstream press is increasing. The standard of reporting is also getting better. The likes of the Times, the Economist and Reuters all publish quality video game journalism. Unfortunately some papers are still playing catch up.Comment
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The figures are correct. There's just one word missing: software.Originally posted by John Beaulieu View Post
From gamespot:
Sony's figures peg PS3 shipments at 5.5 million systems for the fiscal year, with 13.2 million games to go along with them. As for how its older systems fared, Sony reported hardware sales were down for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The company shipped 14.2 million PS2s for the year, down 2 million from the year before, while PSP shipments totaled 8.4 million, down 5.7 million from the year before. Since then, PSP shipments have slowed significantly, with less than 1 million PSPs arriving in North America and Europe since September of 2006, and a negligible amount in the January-March quarter.
The software picture looked a little brighter, as Sony said 54.1 million PSP games shipped to retail, up 12.5 million from the year before. However, PS2 game shipments dropped 30 million to 193 million units.Comment
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Journalism as a whole these days is atrocious.
The world's going to **** I tell you !Comment
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It's not just games, to be fair. If you have specialist knowledge of anything you can find holes big enough to drive a bus through in any news report because at most they'll get a soundbite from some rent-a-quote PR. The rest of it will be copied from a press release by someone, as this one clearly was (incorrectly). I've had to write about stuff that I have no interest in or knowledge of whatsoever.
One of many reasons that I don't read newspapers.Comment
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Not worth starting a new thread for, Money Programme on BBC2 tomorrow night is all about online gaming etc, details here
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Reporting in non-mainstream media are hardly anymore accurate.
Even direct source information contain errors.Comment
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