What's with all the EDGE hate?

[Reasonable]

justinian said:

Reasonable said:
Well, I can only speak by observation, having no issue with the mag myself. Put simply, it has been perceived, rightly or wrongly, by certain enthusiastic people of having a bias towards 360 and against PS3, on the basis of some review scores for certain big titles.

I've looked at the reviews myself, compared them to metacritic, etc. and can only say I don't see any bias, however I think it just so happened that a couple of big PS3 titles were assigned a slightly harsher review than a couple of big 360 titles, the Edge review looked a little further away from the balance of other reviews, and people decided it had to be deliberate bias.

I would go with this. Saying that, my gut feeling over the last couple of years is that edge is more on side of the x360.

I have nothing to back this up either way, it was just the impression I got and I wasn't even on the PS3 bandwagon.

I'll add that I do feel that Edge are sometimes a little inconsistent with their critera - again though I think this is per individual rather than any conspiracy.  For example sometimes one reviewer will verbally pernalize a title (and in the score, too) for being too safe and similar to it's predecessors, while another reviewer will ignore the lack of innovation from one franchise title to another nor mark down because of it.

For whatever reason, the numbers do seem to show the PS3 titles have ended up more on the receiving end than others, but then again, in the end, despite being from a single source the reviews are produced by individuals and as such will vary in approach, particularly given Edge doesn't use a formal template but a written review (which I like) an a simple number score (which I don't).

So for example, the guy reviewing GTA IV and Halo 3 might well see everything he wanted based on earlier titles plus a nice new sheen of polish, and give high scores.  The guy reviewing MGS4 might see a highly polished title that didn't innovate enough for him, and mark slightly lower score.

Ideally, the reviews editor should watch out for any excessive deviations, but no Editor is going to pull up one review for being slightly tougher in judging innovation, or repetition, or graphics, vs another.