Gaming Journalists: How We Ruined the Industry

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mike_intellivision said:
In some places, this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. For example, X-play caters to 360 owners because they are the bulk of the audience. In that case, it at least makes commercial sense.

However, in other cases, it is just arrogance. I think many Game Informer editors would rather die than say something nice about the Wii -- even though their own surveys show there are more Wii owners "reading" the magazine than PS3 owners.

Either way, it is hard to find neutral, unbiased information -- which is unfortunate.

Mike from Morgantown

 

You know, I didn't think of it that way before...you are right that it makes sense for X-play to cater to the 360 owners, seeing that it is only seen in America and it caters to its audience.

 

But then you have publications and sites like Game Informer, Gamespot, IGN, etc. that cater to the world, yet do not bother to leave their biases at the door and focus on being proffesionals. It is like as if they never bothered to mature and be grown ups.