Joystiq interview: GameTrailers EIC sets record straight on GRID controversy

There's been a lot of controversy surrounding GameTrailer's comparison video of Race Driver: GRID, which pitted the PlayStation 3 version up against ... um ... the PlayStation 3 version. Is the site horrifically biased? On Microsoft's payroll? We spoke with GameTrailers Editor In Chief, Shane Satterfield, to clear up the matter.

How did this mistake happen?

It was a mistake in our post-production process. After we captured the footage from both versions, some of the footage of the PlayStation 3 version of the game was incorrectly placed in the bin for the Xbox 360 footage. Our video editor on this particular project is not a games person and completely overlooked the fact that he had the wrong footage in the wrong place. We normally have multiple checks from games editorial on every segment that is published, but there was some confusion on who did/did not look at it before it was sent out for compression. Thus, the mistake.

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Hmmmm...what do you all think of this explanation. I dunno.

Pathetic excuses =p.

Lame, just a lie to cover themselves. They are a game site, why would the person doing the comparison know nothing about games, and then it just happens to be the video no one else looks at.

Did they care to explain why the PS3 footage looked worse than the other PS3 footage ?

And why the footage that was supposed to be the 360 ( but was actualy the PS3) showed the more dynamic crash.

@imperial

EXACTLY thats the main hole in their excuse....WHY did one version STILL look worse!

well, they should have solved this problem quickly on their own forum
I m pretty sure everybody would have accepted this explanation since the error was BIG.

So I guess this "non gamers" job is to reduce the quality of the PS3 videos before putting them together? The issue os not that the PS3 video was mistakingly placed where the 360 video was supposed to be, it was that it looked better when it was the 360 video, like some sort of post processing was done to one or the other.

I call Bullshit. Just like Imperial said, why did one version look worse than the other? And if it was a mistake why did the footage in the video match thier description of the game? Damage control at its finest

Still doesn't account for the huge chasm inbetween the two pieces of footage. Why would they record one horrible set of PS3 footage and one brilliant one and then send both to proccessing (edit; or better yet; send one too proccessing to make it look like shit)? Weird, smells kinda fishy if you ask me.

What strikes me is, how does one get a job within a gaming-related company other then serving coffee/cleaning?