Jane Wells + CNBC’s Funny Business = Moronic Reporter

Before you read any further read this.

Now, here are the problems that I have with this article.
1. The very first words in her articles, in fact, the first paragraph of the article says for us to forget about the numbers that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo rely on. What moron tells you to forget the numbers that drives an industry? When they look at ratings, should I say, forget about Neilson, your show is the most popular. Would the big studio executives listen to JUST ME instead of Neilson ratings? No, that NEVER EVER, EVER happens!
2. She stated that her son watches G4, “participates in chat rooms about them on the Internet, he competes in a variety of games on a variety of platforms.” And knows the latest trend three months in advance. Let me ask her this: Did he NOT know of Bluray on the PS3 prior to Sony’s press conference at E3 2008? If not, then he must have been living on Venus or he has some sort of mental retardation. I’ve known that the Sony PlayStation 3 had a Bluray player in 2005...because I watch G4 and they had several FUNNY commercials since 2006 that showed the difference between the PS3 and the “other” consoles.
3. He even watched Microsoft’s Press Conference and said that he was excited about the Netflix Streaming and he STILL traded in his 360. Guess what Young Mr. Wells, to stream Netflix movies on your TV, now you have to pay $100 for a Roku Box that will NOT play games.
4. Young Mr. Wells was actually surprised that he was being sold a USED copy of the game from GameStop. Then he had the stupidity of asking “How can the game already be used?” Any moron (except this one, apparently) who has EVER been to a GameStop store (or any major game store retailer for that matter) before knows that the day after a major release of a game, there is ALWAYS a used copy. Why? Because some people buy it, open it; and either hate the game, don’t like it, beat it in one day or in the case of Metal Gear Solid 4, they probably tried to play the online portion and gave up on it.
5. No GameStop employee would tell a patron of their store that “PlayStation players are ninjas!” At least not where I am and not where ReaperGrrl (fellow Geezer) lives. Can anyone ever recall a GameStop employee ever calling PS gamers Ninja’s? What does that mean anyway? That only PlayStation gamers take care of their games. Or are they saying that every PlayStation gamer is the most disciplined gamer in the world? I’m not getting it.

At least she got right the fact that since he wasn’t 17, he couldn’t have bought Metal Gear Solid 4 by himself and had to get his mother to do it for him. But on that note, since she’s main-stream media, has she not heard of Jack Thompson and his fight to keep M-Rated titles out of the hands of minors?

In order for me to believe this story I have to say the following: My opinion is that her 16-year-old-son is actually either a 12-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy with slight mental retardation, or she made the whole story up or embellished some of it to make for a good story. After reading this story I can’t help but shake my head and wonder HOW the mainstream media actually get’s it about video games. Will the PS3 win the console war? Maybe, but it’s not resting on the shoulders of a “16-year-old boy”.