Same Old Nintendo - KindaFunnyGames

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potato_hamster said:

RolStoppable said:

The article was posted in October 2011. At that point in time it was already known that the Vita wouldn't get Monster Hunter. Launch lineup was known. Price was known. The competition (Nintendo) was known.

At that point anyone who wasn't a complete Sony fanboy could tell that the Vita would not outsell the 3DS.

It's ridiculous that you even try to defend him as someone who is credible. Your first post started by saying that he is a Nintendo fan when the evidence we have points towards a PS fanboy. He's not just biased, he's incredibly biased. Hence why his Vita prediction was so off.

Has games journalism ever been that unbiased? He worked for IGN's Playstation division. The playstation-centric spin should be obvious. The same goes when you read from their Xbox or Nintendo divisions. They all have their own teams, they all write console centric articles. It's what IGN is known for, where fanboys go to be appeased in their echochambers.

But furthermore, should I go out then and find all those articles from Joystiq or Polygon from all of those other credible journalists that raved about how great the Wii U was going to do, and just ignore everything they say until the end of time? The fact remains that you're shredding him over one article he posted about the potential of the vita before it was released as if that means anything. Great. He bought into the Vita hype and got it very wrong once. It doesn't mean he's wrong about everything forever.

the problem is not what he thinks about the vita, the problem is that he needs to downplay one system to say that the vita was going to be better on everything.  For him, the vita was going to be better than the 3ds because the vita was more powerful and had more games, and 3ds had the same franchises over and over and Nintendo was not doing anything new for the system while uncharted on a portable device was the biggest thing ever. He does the same thing when he speaks about microsoft, so clearly you can see that his personal taste interferes with his journalist skills.

 I don't see Jose Otero talking crap about sony to praise Nintendo. And he's not the only one, the industry is full of biased dudes for every console. My problem with that is that as a journalist you're trying to control the thoughts of others when you're in a position that you should try to be subjective. NOW, as a youtuber he can be free and have a playstation channel and that's ok,  when you see his channel now you know that he's giving you his point of view based on his tastes.