Edge vs. Metacritic (Bias Confirmed!!!)

[ElRhodeo]

aragod said:

ElRhodeo said:
Hm, another possible explanation is that Edge isn't biased, they just thought the PS3 games were worse than the 360 games. Shock!

That's called a 'result', something that comes AFTER examining / testing.
'Bias' means judging BEFORE you tried it.

You know, according to your (very popular) definition of 'bias', any comparison that doesn't result in "all contestants are equally good" is biased. That's pointless.

Sorry but your explanation is complete bs.

The point is that EDGE is rating PS3 exclusives with bigger difference than XBox exclusives COMPARED to industry standart. It's like saying that Xbox games are better because EDGE "agrees" with the whole industry, but PS3 games are worse, because EDGE is "off" the industry standart. That makes absolutly no sense whatsoever.

Also bias is universal, there is noone and nothing completly unbiased, because bias is a part of underlying social structure affected by many factors which can't be empiricali studyied. There is a whole science which is trying to find these non-visible functions, called Structuralism. Noone is unbiased, therefore the question is:

How much biased you are?

Nice try, turning the bias claim towards me. Actually I am pretty unbiased is this case, cause I don't care for either of the 2 systems. 

Apart from that: You're absolutely right, everybody is "biased". EDGE's job is to give their opinion on the games they test. All I was trying to say is this:
Even if they DO think that Xbox games are better than Playstation games on average, that's a legitimate result. I think it's a plague that people started comparing every review score to the Metacritic average, labeling those 'wrong' who differ. If you don't allow a magazine to have their opinion, why bother reading them?