| pokoko said: I don't know. It's awfully hard to draw a conclusion. That "2 day review event" thing doesn't sound that great, though, not if they expect full reviews from that. I can understand reviewers not being happy with that--though, at the same time, who really cares about the early reviews besides the reviewers? Most of the people who made their pre-orders are going to stick with them and pretty much everyone else will have to wait, anyway. In that context, yeah, it's a storm in a teacup. The world won't end if the full reviews come after launch. |
It's entitlement.
As a gamer, if someone said to me, fly over hear and review a game, you know i would be able to disconnect myself from that trip and just play/enjoy the game. I get the impression that some reviewers these days don't play games for more than a few hours. It's actually a bit of a joke when you see a review thats a few paragraphs and the information is partly incorrect... and I've seen a few of them. But two games to say review Killzone/Knack and some others.. easy.. even if you just do a preview.
Of course who wouldnt prefer to play them in their own environment.. of course, but are they saying they cannot do their job because they are somewhere else. When we know quite well this is not unusual in the industry. Now perhaps one or two of them havent been invited to the Sony event, and so they are upset by that. "it's me livelihood"..
As you say, people who ordered are likely not to change their orders at this point, so whats the deal, its that the early videos that people put up gets the most clicks and makes the most money. Unfortunately many are not doing it for us... they are doing it to be first with their "Opinions".
At the end of the day, once we are past the launch, they will be able to get their own consoles and get preview games as before, so its no big deal.
Of course this is all speculation, but considering the tweets from people, it all sounds rather true.
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