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MaxwellGT2000 on 21 March 2011

kowenicki said:

Bruno Muñoz said:

Western media hate Nintendo, reasons? I really don't care.

What garbage... the western media LOVES nintendo.. It helped make the Wii what it has become.

You mean Mainstream media not the publications dedicated to gaming that don't push products as well as they once thought they did.

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chocoloco said:

HappySqurriel said:

Since its inception, the videogame industry has been focused on meeting the needs of videogame journalists and/or the gamers they represent. Nintendo realized that between "casual" gamers, lapsed gamers, adult non-gamers, and children the vast majority of gamers (and potential gamers) were not having their needs met and decided to focus on those gamers rather than the videogame journalists (and the gamers they represent). As a result of this, much like a teenager who has been spoiled and finally their parents say no to them, the videogame journalists have been throwing a tantrum like a 3 year old.

How can the vast majority of gamers be children when many surveys have shown the average gamer to be in their 30s? I will not look up years old news, but I have read this several times.

He means that between them the non-gamers, lapsed gamers, and children together comprise the majority, and either way an average does not imply where the majority lies (that goes rather to the median, which would be harder to compute in this case).

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Sfaralli on 21 March 2011

Because probably S and MS pay IGN....

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Mr Khan said:

radiantshadow92 said:

Seriously, anyone that thinks that IGN has hate for any company in this industry (other than dirct competitors like gamespot) just isn't thinking right. They review games and hardware, not the gaming companies that supply them.

Individuals can and do hate the companies that supply them. You honestly think that some reviewers don't have biases that are associated towards the content provider and not the content itself?

Even if they did, it just doesn't show. Nintendos first party software continues to get amazing scores. There is just no way to know that IGN has bias towards Nintendo. Like someone else said, They hate Nintendo, MS, and Sony. It goes all around. Its stupid to think that just because certain games on a system gets bad scores that the whole website has something on that system.

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Mr Khan said:

chocoloco said:

HappySqurriel said:

Since its inception, the videogame industry has been focused on meeting the needs of videogame journalists and/or the gamers they represent. Nintendo realized that between "casual" gamers, lapsed gamers, adult non-gamers, and children the vast majority of gamers (and potential gamers) were not having their needs met and decided to focus on those gamers rather than the videogame journalists (and the gamers they represent). As a result of this, much like a teenager who has been spoiled and finally their parents say no to them, the videogame journalists have been throwing a tantrum like a 3 year old.

How can the vast majority of gamers be children when many surveys have shown the average gamer to be in their 30s? I will not look up years old news, but I have read this several times.

He means that between them the non-gamers, lapsed gamers, and children together comprise the majority, and either way an average does not imply where the majority lies (that goes rather to the median, which would be harder to compute in this case).

Mr Khan, I do not need a lesson on Statistics as I have taken four classes in college for biology and psychology.

It is not a big deal other than realizing that there have now been two generations of game players going into a third and people do not just suddenly quit gaming at some magical age. For the average to be thrown off upward,there would have to be a large amount of outliers, meaning alot of gamers either very young 0-10 or very old 60 plus. Neither situation seems likely. For the average to be high the latter would have to be true. The way it is worded makes it sound like children are the vast majority and since he is not responding it is probably not the case.

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FreeTalkLive on 21 March 2011

amp316 said:

I don't think that they hate Nintendo, but most of their writers are in the age group where they thought that the PS1 was the best thing ever and that the N64 was lame. Know what I'm saying?

Does anyone really think that? I thought the PS1 was amazing and that the N64, while amazing, was way too expensive for me so I opted to buy a PS1 and had amazing fun with it. I went to other people's houses and played some multi-player N64 games from time to time and had a great time.

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