| Chrkeller said: I find it funny that people believe Nintendo gets a free pass from criticism on their games. The truth is Nintendo has been in this business a long time and simply makes superb games. Nintendo is held to the same standard as everybody else. |
Yes, but no. When you have a large portion of the fanbase as rabid as to attack you non-stop for giving one of their games a 7, still a good score, because it dropped the Metacritic rating 0.1, reviewers are definitely going to think twice before giving a Nintendo game a low score.
For Christ's sake, 1 2 Switch has a 58, which is above average. If Sony released that barebones a "game" at almost full price, it would have been ripped to shreds and given a 4 or below, which it deserves. IGN gave that game a 68.
In comparison, their reviewer fucked up a Sony review, The Fight, because he thought O was to block, but what he really did was constantly recalibrate the controllers. Did they take it down and rereview it when that was pointed out? Nope. They simply edited out the part in the article where he admitted he was hitting O and the 30 score stood. If that had been a Nintendo game, fans would have destroyed that site until they did a new review from a new reviewer, who wouldn't have dared to give it anything less than a 8.
