IGN: "Wii Music a Hit: We Have Failed"

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im_sneaky said:

patjuan32 said:
IGN is unprofessional. They want a game like Wii Music to fail but will not go after EA for their My Sims Kart or My Sims Party or Ubisoft, with its tons of shovelware. This makes no sense and IGN is becoming a site of insane journalist that hate the fact that they are Irrelevant. The whole hardcore or nothing attitude is not health for the Industry. Why not accept and Welcome casual and Nongamers? Why not offer them a channel on IGN where they can visit and discuss the games they like to play. IGN could also suggest some core games similar to the ones that they enjoy playing. This would be a better service than to spend time trying to make Wii music flop and would help some casuals become core gamers faster.

 

It's because Wii Music was sort of a "big name" game...for the holidays. It turned out to be somewhere between mediocre and bad, and yet it still selled well. I don't think there are any replacements for Wii Music though... like Rockband/Guitar Hero... so there's no good game of the same type to buy instead. That softens the blow.

or maybe it has to do with all the advertising money that EA is throwing around for their games on IGN.

Heck if I was a reviewer and I had to review two games that were basically the same game, but one game the company had thrown me 10k to throw up some ad they made or banner on my website, and the other game didn't give me anything.  It would be very easy to have a subconscous thought of reviewing the game that you got money from that company a bit better.