Polygon Caught Lying About PS4 on Their Xbox One Stream

November 20th, 2013 at 11:54 am by Jeremy Conrad

You can use any TV remote with the PS4, as long as your TV supports HDMI-CEC.

This morning, gaming site Polygon is doing a twelve-hour live stream showing off the Xbox One. Right before the comical demo of Dead Rising 3, where most of the voice commands didn’t seem to work and they couldn’t even snap Internet Explorer correctly, a panel of editors discussed the system that the site seems to be carrying so much water for.

During this panel, site Editor-in-Chief Chris Grant stated a couple times that one advantage the Xbox One has over the PS4 is that the Xbox One supports remote controls and the PS4 does not. He even used the example that grandma would want to use the Xbox One over the PS4 because she wouldn’t want to use the Dual Shock 4 to watch a movie. Later, he used the example of Netflix on how the Xbox One is a superior choice over the PS4 for Netflix because of remote support.

The problem with these statements is that they are lies.

The PlayStation 4, like the Slim PS3 before it, fully supports HDMI-CEC controls. While every TV manufacturer calls it something different, virtually every major television that is relatively recent supports it. Samsung, Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, LG, Hitachi, Toshiba, Philips, and component manufacturers like Onkyo all support this Consumer Electronics Control feature of HDMI. Due to HDMI-CEC, you can use your normal television remote control to operate the PS4.

While the Xbox One does support an IR-Blaster, most devices have moved away from that because HDMI-CEC is simply more convenient due to being able to use your normal TV remote for control.

I even made a video to demonstrate this:

Of course, I then tweeted this video to Chris Grant wanting to know why he decided to lie to viewers about the PS4:

Naturally, after being pointed out how wrong he was and how he was indeed lying to his readers, he blocked me:

The moral of this story is not to blatantly lie to your readers or viewers. Especially with something like this. You will be called out on it…

Source: http://furiousfanboys.com/2013/11/polygon-caught-lying-about-ps4-on-their-xbox-one-stream/

Anyone really surprised!?

See here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcCbL63l50M

Wow that's embarassing lol.

Where polygon are concerned... no.

From wikipedia.

The history of Polygon can trace back to early 2011, when Christopher Grant, then the editor-in-chief of AOL gaming blog Joystiq, was approached by Vox CEO Jim Bankoff, himself a former AOL executive. Bankoff offered to focus on online journalism with the launch of a new gaming website. This offer was rejected; Grant, in an interview with Forbes, later commented, "We're just going to ride it out with whatever publisher we're with now until they go out of business, and then we'll flip burgers."[2] However, Vox would launch The Verge in November that year; it features a new and visually-attractive design[citation needed], and contains documentary-line review videos. These attributes, along with endorsements of sponsors like Microsoft and BMW, led Grant to reconsider Bankoff's offer.[2]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon_%28website%29

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Is there a process that meta critic or other such sites use to determine whether an outlet viable? If not whats to stop agroup of fanboys(Polygon) from making a site to propogate thier console and skew scores for games

Wow, just wow. Block somebody for calling you out on your lies, and then calling him a creep. What a piece of shit.

Put this on reddit or something, Polygon really has to be exposed to how biased they are.

Wii U has no problem with any of that, gamepad control you cable box and TV while you don't have to look for any other controller.