IGN: 2010, Year of the Wii

[mike_intellivision]

Carl2291 said:
But... but... I thought Wii owners hated IGN because of some random guys blog!?

Since I posted that topic, I thought I would respond.

Below is the lead (first) sentence of the story posted in the OP.

It's been hard for passionate gamers to keep the faith over the last few years as far as the Wii is concerned. For all its strengths, the system just hasn't been delivering for the core audience.

In other words, even when IGN means to praise the Wii, it condemns it.

And you can lie with statistics.  One reason for the Wii having such a higher proportion of poorly reviewed titles is the sheer volume of shovelware released on the system -- because it is the leader (its sold more units than the other two systems combined since its release). Another is that given its lower specs, it generates lower reviews (because review sites like IGN like graphics) and more to this point, because it has made it possible to port over late PS2 cash ins which did not look good on that system (and probably weren't even reviewed) to the Wii.  (For example, some of the titles in NA released by Conspiracy and UFO started were released on the PS2 in some or all PAL territories).

So now that the Wii has a some really strong software (because Nintendo is on round two and some parties appear to have tried to do something over the last couple of years instead of just complain about poor sales for games they did not advertise or that would appeal to a very small audience regardless of console), IGN is trying to make "nice nice."

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Well, at least its better than Game Informer putting the Wii review of multiplatform games on its website (and not in the magazine), even though its own survey (albeit 18 months ago) showed more Wii owners read GI than PS3 owners.

 

Mike from Morgantown