pokoko said:
Destructoid used to be my gaming home a few years ago. After awhile, it became obvious to me that that Sterling was just a tabloid writer who depended on sensationalism for his "internet fame". Everything was a rant, often with little regard for facts, often with little or poor sourcing. When people would point out his mistakes, he'd then rant about gamers, along with the excuse that he was just a blogger so he didn't have to worry that much about accuracy. While I do agree that we shouldn't be calling anyone in the gaming media a "journalist" without anything to back that up, I completely disagree with the idea that a writer on a major website has no responsiblity to their readers to be as factually correct as possible. I remember when he wrote a rant about the Vita (I think it was called the NGP then) being a ripoff of the Nintendo DS because it was going to have "two touchscreens". His source was some obscure blog, but if you went to the real source linked from that, which had the patent information for the console, it was perfectly clear that it did NOT have two touchscreens. Seriously, how can you not check your information better than that? I don't think he ever fixed the article. Stuff like that is why I have zero faith in anything he says unless it's confirmed elsewhere. Besides that, his reviews would almost always mention cum and piss. Why? I can think of no other reason than to be controversial. That's tabloid writing. |
I feel you're mixing up Jim Sterling (the person and gametester) with his deliberatly over-the-top hammy evil brit Jimquisition Character persona where the foul language is supposed to be part of the joke
About the Vita, I never saw that test on destructoid (never went there back then), if you could provide a link that would be nice. Considering he made a Jimquisition about the Vita (reviving the cold Vitae, or something like that) lamenting it's poor sales despite being a system he likes very much and offering quite some interesting ideas, it might possibly have been either a joke or misinformation.
