{"id":1967,"date":"2007-01-17T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T20:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/17\/i-want-to-be-an-analyst\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T20:16:50","slug":"i-want-to-be-an-analyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/i-want-to-be-an-analyst\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to be an analyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They probably make good money guessing things that everybody already knows.<\/p>\n<p>From over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilavatar.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=23963\">Evil Avatar<\/a>, I noticed the story that some analyst has announced <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070116\/tc_nm\/videogames_ps3_dc\">that PS3s are in stock, and the Wii is sold out everywhere<\/a>! <em>Really?<\/em> I hadn&#8217;t noticed that. Oh, wait, <em>yes I have. <strong>Everyone has.<\/strong><\/em> In fact, here&#8217;s a couple comparison camera phone shots I took at one of my local Target stores just last week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nathaniel.payne.googlepages.com\/wiips3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is the case <em>everywhere<\/em>. Sony needs to do something to get people to buy these things, because obviously their brilliant marketing tactic of <em>making them available<\/em> just isn&#8217;t cutting it anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They probably make good money guessing things that everybody already knows. From over at Evil Avatar, I noticed the story that some analyst has announced that PS3s are in stock, and the Wii is sold out everywhere! Really? I hadn&#8217;t noticed that. Oh, wait, yes I have. Everyone has. In fact, here&#8217;s a couple comparison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[410,361],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-analysis","tag-game-design","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}