| mhsillen said: Should have put gaming journalists and gaming companies as one Gaming companies call the journalist for a trip to a nice hotel to get an "exclusive" look at their finished products. The hotel, drinks, food and swag all free of charge thanks to gaming company. Game journalists take the trip and preview the game and backslap with the gaming company rep amid belly laughs and drinks with high score for the games in the game companies pocket |
I imagine its even less obvious than this. MS have already been in trouble for threatening to lift free or cheaper Operating Software support for certain companies in the past. Sony meanwhile have recording equiptment, cameras, music and tv/ film rights to barter with.
When companies get this big, with this much power, there is bound to be motivation for bias.
“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.
