Yes and I also lose some confidence when ever I see a series of things numbered in a rational way and then skips numbers. Asian or not I don’t want to support a company that can not count. And its not like it is super common, Sony is a Japanese company yet the Playstation 4 existed for example.
And its not just international things ether, I don’t like when buildings skip floors. Let me live on the 13th floor, it is a number between 12 and 14 and I have a better opinion of the builder that can count more then I would have issues with superstition.
How people can give money to a software maker that has shown they can not count to 10 always blows me away.
Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
Look, they can count to two and that is good enough for software. But if portal 4 comes out next I am going to lose it.
Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.
At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.
Also because many software did version checks by doing a substring search “Windows 9”.
Yes and I also lose some confidence when ever I see a series of things numbered in a rational way and then skips numbers. Asian or not I don’t want to support a company that can not count. And its not like it is super common, Sony is a Japanese company yet the Playstation 4 existed for example.
And its not just international things ether, I don’t like when buildings skip floors. Let me live on the 13th floor, it is a number between 12 and 14 and I have a better opinion of the builder that can count more then I would have issues with superstition.
If you think about it, the PS4 had titles like Killzone, Final Fantasy, Destiny, Diablo 3, Mortal Kombat, Assassin’s Creed, Battlefield 4…
I mean, adding death to that doesn’t seem too risky.
/s