Loud_Hot_White_Box said:
But this situation shows IGN doing some rather tone- or situation-deaf nitpicking, which they'd avoid like the plague if your little conspiracy/influence hypothesis were correct. Did gametrailers or anyone else mislabel, or at the time appear to mislabel, 360 games in a way that seemed detrimental, and then unilaterally ban a bunch of people from their message boards for discussing it? If so, you all would be perfectly entitled to discuss and decry it. The only thing you're correctly putting your finger on is that Playstation has a large fanbase net-wide: larger proportionally than the posters here represent. As for the PS3 conspiracy, and the IGN posting which is inconsistent with your conspiracy: no. Not only that, but 360 peeps around here have already bashed IGN when 'bad' news came out only to reverse themselves later (starcraft et al), so any criticism here ISN'T a Playstation-fan-only issue. It's fanboyism to suggest otherwise. |
My hyphothisis was absolutely correct, but I don't want to get into that, it'd just be a text crit, and it's missing the point. Suffice it to say that IGN is simply an idea, not a person, and individuals write their articles, not some great collective consciousness.
The point is, how quickly the loving PS3 fanbase turned rabid on IGN when they put up a small article criticizing a couple of aspects of the next Sony golden calf. Such a magnificant example of my Sony fanbase theory, and how review sources must now appease that market, or be destined and doomed to lack of credibility in the minds of the average internet gamer. I bet 10 to 1 that this story is on, or will be on N4G(with heavy damage control, and 2 negative 360 articles to counteract it), and spun negatively towards IGN by every commentor and probably the articles poster.
If someone only read N4G, they would think that Sony was easily winning this console war.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.