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KBG29 on 17 August 2007

1up may not have the best text based journalism on the web, but you can not beat their video, and podcasts. Shane Bentonhouse is very smart about games, and if they do go under I hope he is picked up by sombody. John Davis and Garnet Lee are both very opinionated, and get upset to easly. I think that they and that Patrick dude are the biggest problem at that site as they are always bashing Nintendo and Sony, which puts the site off the radar of most gamers, as thouse are the biggest to companys. Anyway I guess we will see what happens.



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jhlennon1 on 17 August 2007

After their review on Jeanne d'Arc..... LAME. They can go bankrupt!

Actually, I don't care either way. Never ever went to that site.



shams on 17 August 2007

@KGB - just saw your sig... you don't think that 12m PS3 by the end of '07 is a little... ambitious? Take the 6m in the US for instance...

Its now selling 42k/week (US) - that's after the price cut AND new model are released. Its currently sold 1.82m. There are about 20 weeks left in the year. Based on the current rate, that's 1m extra sold - not 4m. Throw in an extra 1m for November/December (Xmas). Still off by 2m...

Just thought you might want to be more... realistic. But hey, its your sig ;)

 

 



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Morier on 17 August 2007

Was their review on Jeanne d'Arc bad?



fazz on 17 August 2007

I had never given a damn about 1up.

About EGM... it was one of the few USA magazines I used to buy, but videogames magazines aren't that popular anymore. Everything is web-based.



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rockstarjerry981 on 17 August 2007

that sucks, retro roundup was pretty cool



jhlennon1 on 17 August 2007
Morier said:
Was their review on Jeanne d'Arc bad?

EGM gave it a 7.... Lowest score out of all the reviewers...

I don't like EGM reviews, not at all. 



ckmlb on 17 August 2007

I'll be very upset. Best gaming site hands down.

The magazine can disappear I wouldn't care too much for that as much as the site and network.

But what makes you think 1UP is going to disappear? This news has been going on for months that Ziff Davis is going to sell 1up and so it wouldn't go down even if they went bankrupt.

Also your assertion that this has something to do with 'issues' with Wii reviews (issues in the heads of Nintendo fanboys only) is ludicrous.

I can't believe how quickly Nintendo fans suddenly became the most arrogant people on the planet... you know not everything revolves around the Wii and DS on this planet.

I hear Amped Mobile is going out of business cause they didn't embrace the Wii!



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akuma587 on 17 August 2007

I like IGN better (their up-to-date release dates that are well-organized push them way over the top), but 1up is still pretty good. I would rather see them go than IGN, so I will not shed any tears over this.



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your mother on 17 August 2007
ckmlb said:
you know not everything revolves around the Wii and DS on this planet.

...but everything does revolve around Nintendo!

Just like everything revolves around the PS2, PS3 and PSP for Sony fanboys, or how the Microsoft's 360 makes the world go round (how fitting - 360).

Fact is, arrogance is synonymous with fanboyism. Fanboys from all three sides are equally guilty.