Valid points. However, they don't acknowledge the fact that reputable review sites don't put reviewers on games that don't like the genre of the game. Or at the very least have a good deal of knowledge about that genre and what fans of that genre like. You don't have a person who doesn't like FPS games review Quake. Most reputable review sites give fair reviews to casual games. For example, the Mario Party series has traditionally garnered favorable reviews. Mario Party 8 didn't fare as well as the rest of the series because, from a quality standpoint, it's not as good as the ones before it.
That said, I do believe that review sites would be doing themselves and the casual gamers a favor by collecting reviewers that aren't core gamers at all. Most reviewers today aren't part of the target audience for these games. They just have good knowledge of the genre and what fans of the genre like. It would be better to have someone with a family review a family targeted game. The system isn't broken, as the article implies, but it could use some tweaking.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said but I don't think you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
