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shinsa on 20 January 2017
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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.

....I think you should go back to some of the predictions and "credible" posts that some of the people in this thread said about Wii U back before launch. It's so easy to shit on a person in the public eye and not see your own wrongs. 

Colin can be agressive and pretentious but people should know he isa very big "retro" Nintendo fan. I know alot of people think just because he's not a fan of the newer Nintendo means he can't be a fan at all. However that not the case! It's a well known fact he's bias towards Sony but if you watch there other podcasts, he shits on them alot for some of there bad practices! 

I'm not as dramatic as Colin about Swtich but i do see alot of issues with it and some from what he mentioned. I'm excited for Zelda and maybe Mario but not there buisness model which i think will effect me personally in the long run if i choose to invest to early. 

So the Nintendo defence force seriously needs to chill, be excited but not blind and a bit wary of the Switch and Nintendo's future.