You should know if your studying journalism that people in general are like sheep. Propaganda is easily used to manipulate and game reviews, along with manipulated journalists (we are part of that manufactured consent, chomsky), are another part of that big machine of misinformation.
Clearly right now there is a system of last gen core gamers who have become core programmers and core journalists. Its a circle jerk and because of it Wii Music / Fit etc will never be entirely accepted.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
