@Laoldar, I would take the word of "a reporter for a non-gaming oriented news outlet" over that of any other gaming press if the non-gaming oriented news outlet is Reuters. Reuters hires professional journalists. Most gaming press are made up of part-time college kids and people who never even studied journalism. They just like gaming...the fact that they like gaming enough to write on a website doesn't mean they can get numbers any better than a professional journalist.
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