But congratulations on the wealth and hot wife.
EDIT: But ripping on TakeTwo on the Bombcast was lame, you were hurt that you low balled RDR by a few million units?[/QUOTE]
Thank you, and thank you.
I low balled RDR back in May, said in print the week of launch (in a note to investors) that I was wrong, apologized via VG 24/7 (and said I didn't get any free games from Take-Two), then apologized to management in person at E3.
The Bombcast comment was because I said Mafia II would not be profitable, and the company called me out on their earnings conference call and said that they expect the game to be solidly profitable. You couldn't hear the audience member in the front say "what about Mafia being profitable, the CEO said it would be"? My comment was in response to that. It was a very poor choice of words on my part, but I stand by my view that the game will not be profitable.
Forecasting unit sales and profitability is my job. I've only gotten units right once in 11 years (Spider-Man 2), so I'm not particularly worried if I get them wrong, so long as the sum of the error terms adds up to close to zero. In the case of RDR, I missed by a mile, and said so in print repeatedly.