[quote name='Killer Rabbit']No, there are people who have Videogame Analyst as their job title. What they do is analyze market trends, and make predictions based on that. Really, though, they make wild guesses. They do an infamously crappy job, on average, of making any sort of accurate predictions on anything that isn't so obvious a three-year old could make the leap ("Halo 3 will sell a lot of copies," or something like that). I'm sure there are quite a few analysts who do a good job. But all of the ones I see quoted on televison are the people who were saying the Playstation 3 would be the top selling console of '07. And I'm not talking about predictions made in early '06, I'm talking about predictions made for the two months after the console was released.
I've never seen CheapyD make a market prediction in an official way. But then again, just look at my join date to see how long I've been watching the site.[/quote]Then perhaps you should leave it to people who have been here longer than you have. CheapyD has made lots of professional predictions about this industry, quite a few being correct. "Videogame Analyst" is a lot more accurate than "Online Game Retailer."
Anyway, it really doesn't matter, we just found it humorous. There's no need to over-anal everything.