sinha said:
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? |
I don't think those sites have been picked for their anti-Nintendo bias, I think they're simply a selection of the larger and more popular game review sites.
Most of these sites don't come off as substantially biased at all. They'll just tend to judge games a little harsher or easier than other reviewers. Gamespy judges games much harsher than other reviewers, but the spread of <1% between different platforms shows that they aren't really biased. A spread of 2-3% is pretty reasonable.
The sites which obviously are biased are 1up and Play Magazine, with 5.9% and 5% spreads, respectively.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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