Is EDGE Magasine

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themanwithnoname said:
So what if Edge likes 360 FPS's more than the PS3's. Everyone calls the 360 the shooterbox anyway, because it is indeed generally accepted that it has a greater abundance of awesome shooters. For everyone who's made the statement "for some reason, Edge likes so and so of a game better," go read the reviews and they will tell you exactly why they like X game and they don't like Y game. I find this bickering about it to be pointless when the answer is simply, in their opinion, the 360 games are better than the PS3 ones. Some of you need to stop being so shocked that someone might actually have a different opinion than you.

Technically if you're a professional critic you're not supposed to let personal preferece to intrude to that level.  I agree with you (as you can see from my posts) however I do think that if you want to retain the correct level of professional consistency you must be able to put aside preference to judge the game on its merits vs your preference.

Of course, with videogames the notion of what reviews/criticsm is for is even more mixed and unclear than, say, films, so it's not a surprise.

That's a tricky one, because if you put aside personal preference, you're reviewing a game on its supposed merits, rather than presenting an honest opinion.  If I were to review Modern Warfare 2, I wouldn't give it a high mark just because I can see why other people might like the things I don't.  Admittedly, some people would consider that bad reviewing.  I can see where the personal preference argument would apply to preference of actual consoles, but I find it difficult to understand how grown men/women with access to all machines would have a 'favourite' system anyway, rather than just favourite games.  I might be able to choose the best system when asked for a recommendation, on the basis of how many exclusives I personally like, but once I'm playing a great game I couldn't care less what machine it's on, and I'd imagine any decent videogame journalist is the same.  I'm pretty sure the Edge staff don't go to bed in their Marcus Phoenix/Sackboy/Yoshi jim-jams, under a Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo duvet cuddling a Master Chief/Kratos/Kirby plush - the problem is, a lot of people who read their scores do, and you can't please the internet.