VG Chartz are Nintendo fanboys?

[dunno001]

psrock said:

ioi said:
Well we can get into a whole debate about how you review a game and what is important - I'll leave that to everyone else if you want to turn this thread into that.

I'm simply saying that we don't have a "Nintendo bias" in our reviews, we strive for a particular balance which probably penalises poor presentation / graphics to a lesser extent that other sites. This can happen within a platform as well as across different platforms.

The only thing, it's not balanced if certain aspect of today's games are penalises. We are in 2009 and closer 2010, graphics and presentation has become a big deal in most of the biggest games. It's frankly not fair to ignore it because it would hurt another console. Each game should be considered differently.

It sounds quite bias the way you said it, but after seeing COD4 on the Wii, a port, I must say a lot of developers should not get he benefit of doubt for their lack of effort on that system.

Graphics is a big part of gaming and for me once you ignore, it really hurts what reviews are suppose to be about.

Well, ioi already debunked that graphics aren't important, but I wanted to add a small thought here. If I am looking to buy a game for a system (I'll use the Wii since it seems to be the hot one in this thread.), I want to know how that game is for that system. I don't own a PS3; I don't want to hear fanboy whining about "Well, the PS3 did..." No. Just no. I am in the market for a Wii game. I want it compared to other Wii games. Now, if the graphics of a game were to make something like Wii Fit look stunning, then feel free to dock it, as you have compared it to another game I have the option to get (or may already have). If it's one of the best looking games on the Wii, feel free to tell me that also.

What happens to me is that when you need to go cross-platform to make graphics look good/bad, you're looking for an excuse to dock points from one platform and give them to the other. And this is the problem with professional reviewers- they do this all the time. I didn't buy a Wii because I want a graphics powerhouse. I bought it for the difference in playstyle. But docked points for something I didn't buy the system for just makes me trust reviews less and less. And I think that's one of the things that VGChartz is able to do- we may have reviewers on this site, but (to my knowledge, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), we're not professional reviewers, doing this as our only job. The users on this site play games for fun. That's what gets weighted in the score more, and rightfully so.