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thismeintiel on 21 July 2019
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Chrkeller said:
thismeintiel said:

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.

Frankly I think that perceived bias is all in your head.  All fan bases have crazy morons who go nuts if a review is less than what they think it should be.  It isn't just a Nintendo thing.  At the end of the day people always view one set of fans as being the "worst" and I think that is folly.  Fanboys are everywhere and they are all annoying as crap.  If the TLoU 2 gets a low review, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind there will be people pitching a fit.  And it isn't limited to videogames either.  Go over to Meta and notice all the 0/10 scores for Last Jedi...  yeah, fair enough people don't like it and are entitled to their opinion, but a 0/10 is just absurd. 

People are morons is the shorter version.  At the end of the day I don't think reviewers go out of their way to rate Nintendo games easier than the competition.  That is just a lame excuse people use because they don't like the fact that Nintendo typically has some of the highest rated exclusive games every generation.  Instead of accepting Nintendo is a great developer, it has to be bias.  It reminds me of sports when team "A" only wins because you know, it is a conspiracy and the NCAA as an organization is purposely making them win via refs.  

Except no "crazies" in a fanbase goes freaking nuts over a 7, and a 0.1 drop on Metacritic, like the Nintendo ones do.  Nor do they have the fanbase as a whole making excuse for them if they do.  Sure, I could see people getting pissed at a clickbait 4 for a big title, but at a 7 is just moronic.  There is no doubt that stops certain reviewers from giving them lower scores.  They don't want the headache of dealing with that.