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Groucho on 28 January 2009
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reask said:
Groucho said:

Eurogamer probably won't score KZ2 past an 8/10. They have some deals with MS, and at the same time, they don't want to look foolish to their readers. 8/10 will be enough to deem the game "not worthy of dumping your X360 for a PS3", which will make MS happy, and it will make fans think "well, they are tough, but I still trust them".

80%. I'm callin it. 85 tops.  It probably deserves a score in the low 90s, just like MGS4 did, IMO (which they also scored 8/10).

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would actually like to see some evidence of that aftervall Eurogamer  is a well respected site imo.

You don't get to have Eurogamer TV featured for free in XBLA without writing a renewable contract between the two parties.  Eurogamer stands to benefit a lot from the 360, especially since their content is delivered, for free to the user, via a Microsoft service.  They pay for it, and it benefits them (greatly, I might add), and the contract is renewed on a regular basis.  Thus, my use of the term "deals".

Upsetting a partner in a good business arrangement is always a bad idea.  Since they benefit more from XBLA than they do from PSN, its in their best interest to keep their partner in the XBLA arrangement happy, and the 360 community/consumer healthy and numerable.  MS has nothing to do with the motivations directly -- they are merely the good business partner Eurogamer wants to keep happy and fruitful.

There's nothing wrong with them being a smart business -- yet, they have an unusual bias against PS3 titles, and most everyone seems to agree.  There's a blatent relationship between them and MS with the XBLA deal.  2 + 2 == the obvious, IMO.