By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
HappySqurriel said:

With all the discussions of "Biased Sites" lately I have created a listing of 10 popular reviewers using the site stats from gamerankings.com ( http://gamerankings.com/itemrankings/sites.asp ).

The chart displays the sites average difference (from the average review score) for each platform minus the sites average difference for all platforms (from the average review score).

 

Site

Xbox 360PS3Wii
GameSpot0.50%1.90%-0.30%
IGN-0.60%0.00%-0.30%
GameSpy-5.30%-6.00%-5.50%
GamePro-0.90%-1.60%-2.90%
GameZone-1.80%-0.40%-0.30%
EGM-1.40%-1.10%-2.80%
1UP0.60%-0.10%-5.30%
Eurogamer-0.50%0.10%-1.30%
Play Magazine2.00%1.40%-3.00%
Gaming Age0.70%-2.40%0.90%
Average:-0.67%-0.82%-2.08

When you selectively pick out sites for their anti-Nintendo bias, and those sites tend to be well respected for the most part, what does that say about the sites that display a pro-Nintendo bias in their review scores?

Why don't you make a similar list of the 10 review sites with the highest Nintendo review scores?



We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick