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April 25, 2007

Separated at Birth: IA and Kotaku

I have long enjoyed reading the gaming site Kotaku, both for the posts themselves and for the comment threads. It is a heavily traveled site that both creates and links to excellent content and provides a forum for those in the gaming world (gamers, investors, developers, etc.) to vent their spleens. And vent they do.

Kotaku frequently injects their posts with a healthy degree of cynicism and sarcasm, and today was no different. It just so happens that today they picked on one of my favorite targets - sell-side analysts - so I felt compelled to share this with you:

Analysts Conduct Intensive Research, Can’t Find GHII Or Wii On Shelf


Oh good. Further proof that “industry analysts” have the
most pointless jobs in the industry. A.G. Edwards have conducted a survey for
investors that concludes it’s very difficult to find Guitar Hero II and Wiis on
store shelves. You. Don’t. Say.


Surveying 100 stores in the US, only one had a copy of GHII, and none had a
Wii in
stock. Every single store did have both 360s and PS3s in stock, so
David, their supply
can’t be that constrained
.


Sadly for investors, no information was provided as to how many copies of BMX
XXX were in-stock, though preliminary estimates indicate it too is quite
difficult to find.


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COMMENT:

AUTHOR: Yaser Anwar

EMAIL: yaser@yaseranwar.com

URL: http://www.yaseranwar.com

DATE: 04/25/2007 03:19:24 PM

If someone who wants a Wii still doesn’t have it, they can buy it from here

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10080745&catid=24713

pretty darn cheap. Surprised they haven’t raised the prices, but I guess the success took everyone by surprise.

I hope they up the graphics for the second gen Wii, otherwise so far so good.

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COMMENT:

AUTHOR: used cisco

EMAIL: vciad001@gmail.com

URL: http://www.routermall.com

DATE: 04/26/2007 03:21:21 PM

I’ll agree with you on your assessment of Kotaku and Luke in particular.  They have a lot of good bloggers over there.  Likewise, I’ve been reading your blog and it appears you’ve got some flare yourself.  Keep up the observations, many of us enjoy them even if we don’t take the time to insult them in the comments. :)

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