GameTrailers sets record straight on GRID Ps360 CONTROVERSY!

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rocketpig said:

Imperial said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:
Here are the facts ladies and gentlemen, they are easily deduced:

Gametrailers knows the internet would be on that ass if they posted provably biased comparitive video.

Therefore, two possibilities:

1. It was a mistake.

2. Gametrailers is biased against the PS3 and simply didn't realize that it would be possible to tell the footage they recorded would be identifiable as the PS3 version.



So, since number two seems, well, utterly insane when you actually read it a couple of times, I'm going with option one.

I'm quick to hate, but I don't think that this was a purposeful mistake.

Game ova.

 

Why would you find bias on the internet insane , it's well within the realms of possibility that game trailers is ineed bias.

The whole fuss was not caused over the mix up of the Videos , the degrading of the PS3 version of the same Video is the reason why the whole situation became this extreme.

On top of that Gametrailers have caused of stir with their opting for using basic settings on the PS3 version and not changing the settings availible on the PS3 to demonstrate what it's fully capable of (they're excuse was something to the effect of showing what the average consumer will get from their PS3).

After this ( and even before this ) anyone who uses game trailer videos to demonstrate the superiority of any 360 game will instantly have their credibility rating reduced to a nice 0.

 

Gametrailers is one of the biggest gaming sites on the internet and is in the top 300 of internet sites, period.

They have all the reason to not be biased and absolutely no sane reason to undermine their advertisers.

Exactly. All this fake paranoia from PS3 fans is most likely based on several things:

 

A. Everyone on the internet loves drama and they love to keep it going and affect things with their opinions, usually negatively.

 

B. Gametrailers comparitive videos have been largely anti-PS3 because in the past, the PS3 has had inferior ports of many games. Keeping this conspiracy theory going is a nice and convenient way to discredit those facts and call them biased and invalid.

 

C. The entheusiast press loves to caniballize itself when a mistake is made. Our industries "press" is mostly soapbox bloggers all trying to get recognition by giving their opinions with every story they "report." So, when this story broke, the blog-press went crazy.

 

So, when you've got so many fanboys, bloggers, and press/enthesiast gamers out to destroy you for disrespecting their favorite system on a regular basis, it's not in your best interest to cheat on compare videos.

 

This was an accident, and conspiracy theories are secret fanboyism that can't be disproven or insane paranoia.

 

I could give two craps either way though. Gametrailers has some good reviews, I was frankly disgusted with their Kart review, but I'm smart enough to realize that this wasn't an attempt to cheat on a comparison video to try and get people to buy 360's that amazingly crazy and unbelievable even for the internet.