While Spawnwave doesn't have much influence over buyers, he sure riles up people in the gaming community with alarmist theories. Pretty sure he's the one that started the whole Lite drifting panic soon after it was announced. He also tried to start rumors that Nintendo was going to have a two-tiered service when it came to NES and SNES games. When it was announced that it was all inclusive, he suddenly had amnesia like he never said it. |
I had left a YT comment telling him it would have been nice for him to comment on that at the time. But yeah, he posted the video about how Nintendo values their IPs too much to release SNES games on their Switch Online service without raising the price. And that must have been only a few days before the Direct where they announced the SNES games.
He was completely wrong about that, and in his video the following day he reported on the SNES games without mentioning that he was wrong, which was kind of annoying to me. (And I do want to say that I disagreed completely with his video in the first place, as getting to play the SNES games as part of an online service is much different than owning the games outright. He was comparing the cost of owning the games with the cost of purchasing a one-year subscription to Switch Online.)
Personally, I like his channel, but that particular incident cost him a lot of credibility in my opinion, and makes me wonder what other instances happened in the past that I'm unaware of.
Edit: Does SpawnWave visit this site? I understand that news is reported pretty much the same on every site, but what better place to go for sales information, of which he uses often in his videos. Also, I think he's mentioned VGCharts before.
