The Wall Street Journal isn't immune to journalism blunders and oopsie-doos. I'm not trolling, I swear! We have our share of those from time to time. Thankfully, our loyal members and visitors forgive us. Of course, others burn us alive in the comments [sighs].
The Wall Street Journal admitted they made a mistake in the recent Technology article published last July 16th.
In this article that was spread worldwide through every major gaming network press, The Wall Street Journal reported that Activision Blizzard had invested 0 million to develop StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.
Flip-flop! Turns out Activision Blizzard did never disclose the development costs of StarCraft II. Activision Blizzard was referring to the development costs of World of Warcraft, not StarCraft II's.
Some Activision Blizzard investors probably got a high blood pressure reaction after the mistaken news. However, according to VGChartz, sales of Starcraft II may have increased up to a total of 684,000 pre-orders, and by estimates a growth to up to 750,000 by July 27th.
It would be interesting to learn how the Wall Street Journal's blunder helped the growth of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty pre-orders, if at all, considering how much traffic and attention the news got throughout the global online press. One thing is for certain, that StarCraft II Ghosts of the Past trailer made a lot of fans wild-hungered and thrilled to get their hands on the game to experience the epic storyline of its single player campaign.
Thanks, Bluesnews
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