IGN: Wii U's struggle to remain relevant

[Salnax]

happydolphin said:

Salnax said:

It wasn't the article itself. It was a typical "State of Nintendeo" piece. It was how IGN created hype about an "interesting Wii U announcement" in order to generate traffic, delivered bad news, blamed Nintendo fans for getting excited, and almost immediately uploaded this article to score more hits. That's like telling your wife you've got some exciting news when she gets home, telling her that you're sleeping with her sister, blaming her for thinking it's going to be a good thing, and then uploading a video of the entire thing onto YouTube in order to get a million hits and the associated revenue. It's being mean and taking advantage of your audience.

How do you know that's what happened?
Is he the guy that tweeted yesterday that there was going to be some big news and that we were to stay tuned?

Yes, he's the same guy. THe only thing I inferred is how long it took him to write the article. He confirmed on Twitter that this was the announcement he was talking about, meaning that he knew about it well in advance, and still went out of his way to get Wii U fans excited. Oh, and I guess he might not have done this for the webpage hits. Maybe he just did this for the lulz. Either way, it was a dick move.