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[Polygon] Mario Kart 8 likely to be the worst-selling game in... what is that chart
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They quoted Chartzz for their numbers. I feel like everyone missed this.
Not to mention, the "news" here is something everyone knows.
Shining Sunshine
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Mario Kart 8 to be the worst selling Mario Kart 8 and the best selling Mario Kart 8. - Polygon
They wrote similar articles (using the word in the loosest sense of the word) about how forza 5 and KSR would be the lowest selling in the franchise?
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Yeah this is bad even for high school level.
It still baffles me how he got an editor position clearly they must hire anyone.
Pureauthor
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What the everloving fuck is that piechart.
I don't think anyone is debating that fact. That's kind of the point
Graphics Horse
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Guys I think I found the source of their extensive research:
Sorry, worst paint hash I've ever done
Heh, I've not seen the article, so they're interpolating data across different platforms too? Is there some sort of editorial line against using Bar charts on Polygon?
If they really used VGChartzz numbers for that chart, and VGChartzz is banned, I don't see why Polygon shouldn't be banned either
Indeed. But I'm seriously starting to think they were just trying to draw a kart.
I'd make the wheels into pie charts but I'm at work and only have MS paint to hand
Polygon have fair share of good articles too. But I agree this one particular article shows how incompetent they are at a time. Discussing something obvious while citing ******** number and that CHART.
This makes sense to me.
Nah, i'm a terrible liar.
Ben KucheraVerified account ‏@BenKuchera
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https://twitter.com/BenKuchera/status/466975490495246336
Do I sometimes use tweets as honey pots to get the crazies to come out of the woodwork and ask for a block? Well....
11:16 AM - 15 May 2014
https://twitter.com/BenKuchera/status/466975490495246336
Militant17
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Why are we all so shocked? Who remembers his article "Used games, Twitter complaints, and Sony: Why the Xbox One backlash doesnt matter"?
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I will say again Polygon does post some really good long form articles that are in fact well research.
But Ben Kuchera is a total hack and with his level of competence really shouldn't have a job.
And you know what's surreal?
Neogaf is certainly a great place for sarcasms, parodies and everything and still in all these posts, no one managed to make a chart that's worse than the original polygon graph.
They're always more coherently made.
during the Sim city events last year Polygon reached the status of a joke, a footnote.
This? That elevate them as THE site everyone should go for educational purpose.
Every single person who would need to make a graph someday need to see this,
every single person who would want to be a journalist need to read them.
Seriously I've gone to this tumbler
http://badgraphs.tumblr.com/
This graph is so bad it clogged my arteries...that or all the burgers I ate this week.
Neogaf is certainly a great place for sarcasms, parodies and everything and still in all these posts, no one managed to make a chart that's worse than the original polygon graph.
They're always more coherently made.
during the Sim city events last year Polygon reached the status of a joke, a footnote.
This? That elevate them as THE site everyone should go for educational purpose.
Every single person who would need to make a graph someday need to see this,
every single person who would want to be a journalist need to read them.
Seriously I've gone to this tumbler
http://badgraphs.tumblr.com/
and there's nothing as offensively bad as the graph we have here.
This graph is so bad it clogged my arteries...that or all the burgers I ate this week.
I believe sites get banned from GAF for misleading and false information. Polygon's brilliant source is a website banned and condemned in GAF for misleading and false information, therefore they are also responsible for misleading and false information.
In theory, this shitty website should be *******.com by now.
And where did that million units number come from?
Solid Samus
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posts like this is why clickbait works
We should ban Polygon until they can prove to be a reliable, trustworthy and well researched site like we did with GoNintendo.
As it stands, their name and reputation are shit because they pull these articles from their ass too often.
ActStriker
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They do have great long form but if they're associated with garbage its hard to give it to a fair shake.
Oh, man, just noticed this bit at the end.
"Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise's changing cast of characters, cups and courses. "
This is an article about sales. There is literally no reason for this chart to be here.
"Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise's changing cast of characters, cups and courses. "
This is an article about sales. There is literally no reason for this chart to be here.
Principate
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Those are all silly and illogical articles/statements all forms of media has that... Sadly...
But this guy has just shown a gross level of incompetence that wouldn't be acceptable at high school let alone as news editor (a supposedly respected position within any news firm).
I do, but not as much as I remember when he compared holding the PS4 controller to fondling a girl in the back of a car.
yup...
plagiarize
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Oh, man, just noticed this bit at the end.
"Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise's changing cast of characters, cups and courses. "
This is an article about sales. There is literally no reason for this chart to be here.
I think someone just missed making graphs and hadn't done any since early highschool. It shows.
Oh, man, just noticed this bit at the end.
"Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise's changing cast of characters, cups and courses. "
This is an article about sales. There is literally no reason for this chart to be here.
Holy shit my eyes!
Why? What did I ever do to you?
The headaches they're coming back!
And lol at "their" research...
KojiKnight
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I believe it came from their most recent financial briefing.
hardcastlemccormick
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Web 2.0! Charts and graphs! Come on guys, let's get out this content!
Like I said, they have some well written article that is well researched and good for discussion. The one I particularly remember is the article on why video gaming is male centric, especially in US. They've also share some great features like an article about Tearaway development. It just the quality of the writers is like Sturgeon's Law made manifest there. Not Polygon that should be banned, but rather Ben Kuchera.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Post anything I find from a cursory glance at Google. Sure that'll work.
no doubt. I am surprised these are the best articles we can get about video gaming, must be scraping the barrel with ideas.
Oh, man, just noticed this bit at the end.
"Mario Kart games are far more than the sum of their sales data, of course. In our research, we also corralled information about what lies inside of each game. Check out the chart below to see the racing franchise's changing cast of characters, cups and courses. "
This is an article about sales. There is literally no reason for this chart to be here.
What are they even trying to show with this? That there is an increase in the volume of game content with respect to time? Or what?
It's like they just had nothing to go with so just threw random shit together for an article.
Interceptor
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Guys I think I found the source of their extensive research:
Sorry, worst paint hash I've ever done
I spit my coffee it´s that awesome.
sad thing is - this chart is more accurate than the one by "professionals".
Ben just got carried away in Excel.
Guys I think I found the source of their extensive research:
Sorry, worst paint hash I've ever done
MK8 will sell 1.26 million copies in one week.
Polygon is cute. If they're banned from GAF we'll lose one of our reliable comedic reliefs.
ricardokenshin
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graphs! graphs everywhere because reasons.
I agree that that fucking site should be banned. they are worse now than kotaku.
Actually this article remind me of this
At least Marshall's graphs all made sense and were relatively well made.
I was naive before this thread, seriously I thought that with the tools available it was impossible to make nonsensical horrible graph that made no sense and killed brain cells.
I was dead wrong.
I won't click on the article it would probably be enough to kill me.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Graphics Horse
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Anyway Super circuit had 10 cups, not 5.
Having a good history didn't stop CBOAT being banned when he was spreading false information. And even though Polygon might have good articles, when Ben Kuchera's the editor there's always the risk he'll fuck something up.
MagiusNecros
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