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Found a review of GameTrailers TV when searching for Wii news.

http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/03/03/LifeArts/gametrailers.Tv.Fails.To.Provide.Organized.Accurate.Content-3247212.shtml

"Gametrailers TV" is a bad show on a road paved with good intentions. While it attempts to encapsulate relevant gaming news and analysis into a half-hour segment, it fails on both counts. The latest from the Spike network, "Gametrailers TV" is meant to offer a new way to "tap into the gaming culture." Unfortunately, the breakneck pacing and unfocused format are likely to leave viewers reeling.

While commentary comes from generally respectable sources, some appear uninformed about certain subjects. Shane Satterfield, editor-in-chief of Gametrailers.com, is particularly noteworthy.

"No one buys the Wii as their primary console," Satterfield said of Nintendo's popular platform, ignoring the company's appeal to a demographic that doesn't usually play video games. Satterfield insisted that the Wii is bought largely in addition to competing consoles rather than on its own.

As it happens, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 system sales dropped this year relative to the Wii's, according to an analysis of 2007 hardware sales by Matt Matthews of "Next Generation."

Meanwhile, the show's featured previews are essentially ads. A segment for "MLB '08: The Show" adeptly points out, "Baseball wouldn't be baseball without the teams, players and stadiums." Perhaps most telling is the narrator's suggestion that the game will drop "just in time for the new season." Each preview also points to more substantial coverage at the program's partner site, Gametrailers.com.

Host Geoff Keighley has proven himself elsewhere as a competent proponent of video games as a respectable medium. On a Fox News segment in January, he succinctly defended the space epic "Mass Effect" against assumptions and accusations that it depicted full digital nudity and let the player actively take part in graphic virtual sex. Heartbreakingly, "Gametrailers TV" lacks the same spark that gave many gamers hope when Keighley managed to get three little words in edgewise amidst the cacophony of misinformation that is Fox News:

"That's completely incorrect."

"Gametrailers TV" airs Fridays at 1 a.m. on the Spike network.



      


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I wasn't aware that Gametrailers TV hosted anywhere but on Gametrailers.com...so it didn't bother me that it felt like a big adfest...there were still worthwhile interviews in it that didn't regularly appear on GT.



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Who the hell is gonna watch gt tv at 1a.m.?



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A game magazine whose audience is hardcore gamers would be biased against the Wii? Unpossible!



I enjoy GT TV, it is a decent show, although it is not my only source of info



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Hmm I like GT TV.






FishyJoe said:
A game magazine whose audience is hardcore gamers would be biased against the Wii? Unpossible!

A lot of the entheusiast press dislike the Wii because they simply dislike Nintendo and casual gamers. Therefore, they attempt to marginalize the console. This is especially true of reporters like Bashcraft, the entire 1up website, and the non-nintendo IGN team(which are largely in the tank for sony).

 

I believe this generation(because there is no clear winner since Nintendo has been marginalized as casual by popular perception) breeds fanboyism, and sites that assign editors to cover certain systems do end up being fanboys of said system.

 

Its expected that, from time to time, these fanboy are going to say some fanboy shit. It comes with the territory. 

 



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

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FishyJoe said:
A game magazine whose audience is hardcore gamers would be biased against the Wii? Unpossible!

You're hopeless.

 

That article points out that their previews are "essentially ads," but that is the case with most previews other than EGM.  X-Play previews a game right the day beforethey review the episode and most of the time it sounds like the greatest game ever until they review it. 



ZenfoldorVGI said:
FishyJoe said:
A game magazine whose audience is hardcore gamers would be biased against the Wii? Unpossible!

A lot of the entheusiast press dislike the Wii because they simply dislike Nintendo and casual gamers. Therefore, they attempt to marginalize the console. This is especially true of reporters like Bashcraft, the entire 1up website, and the non-nintendo IGN team(which are largely in the tank for sony).

 

I believe this generation(because there is no clear winner since Nintendo has been marginalized as casual by popular perception) breeds fanboyism, and sites that assign editors to cover certain systems do end up being fanboys of said system.

 

Its expected that, from time to time, these fanboy are going to say some fanboy shit. It comes with the territory.

 


Um, if you're up to it, can you show all the parts wher B. Ashcraft says he dislikes the Wii? 



ZenfoldorVGI said:
FishyJoe said:
A game magazine whose audience is hardcore gamers would be biased against the Wii? Unpossible!

A lot of the entheusiast press dislike the Wii because they simply dislike Nintendo and casual gamers. Therefore, they attempt to marginalize the console. This is especially true of reporters like Bashcraft, the entire 1up website, and the non-nintendo IGN team(which are largely in the tank for sony).

 

I believe this generation(because there is no clear winner since Nintendo has been marginalized as casual by popular perception) breeds fanboyism, and sites that assign editors to cover certain systems do end up being fanboys of said system.

 

Its expected that, from time to time, these fanboy are going to say some fanboy shit. It comes with the territory.

 


Wow am I tired of this crap. 1UP and IGN have the best podcasts about videogames and cover each console equally. IGN has a podcast devoted to the Wii and 1 for the Xbox.

I'm sorry that these sites are not eating up Carnival Games and Wii Play, but you are completely making up the fact that they "dislike Nintendo." That's absurd, especially considering most of them are of the age when Nintendo dominated and everyone liked them! As someone who has listened to every podcast both sites have put out, I'm pretty sure I remember them liking a lot of Wii and especially a lot of DS games.

Stop your lies.

Edit:  I'd also like to point out this post was really only critizing one guy from Gametrailers apparently not understanding the math of the console war so far.  However, it's his opinion and he's entitled to it.  Saying that most people buy their Wii as a 2nd console isn't too far fetched considering a lot of people have done that (and btw, I disagree and I think a lot of people will be getting a PS3 and/or 360 as a 2nd console because the Wii was cheaper and/or more innovative to a lot of people).  Obviously everyone who hasn't is on this website and for some reason feels the need to attack every video game review website and publication in existence at one point or another.