I stopped going there because of their current layout as well. It's a mess and seems so generic and amateurish now.

I'm all for websites trying to keep things fresh and reinventing themselves but when they change things that were perfectly fine and you feel like you're having to work twice as hard as you did before to get the same kind of information then there's a problem.

Take their game release date listings for example. If someone goes to a console specific webpage like wii.ign.com and wants to see a list of release dates it's probably likely they want a list of release dates for Wii games and not PC, 360, PS3, DS, PSP, iPhone, Mac, Cell, etc, as well.

In those cases even after you click more to get at the concise information you want you're still left with unneeded information (release dates on other systems for multi-platform games) as well as plenty of unneeded white space ensuring you have to scroll and click more than what is really required.

It kind of reminds me of how annoying Facebook is with their new security changes only in their case it requires far more effort to set up a new profile on another social networking website and get people to actually go to it than it is to simply stop reading IGN and get your gaming needs filled elsewhere.

I agree. The online community of Nintendo fans is smaller, which would be the case with or without the newer strategy of Wii and DS. There's certainly no way we (nintendo fans) account for 75% of IGN readership.

I only go on IGN for release dates anymore

First off, why is this in the Nintendo forum?

And secondly, IGN have steadily become much less important to me as I have become a more frequent poster here.

I generally have gotten to the point where I only go to Nintendo-centric sites because most other places do not provide much information. So unless I am on a specific quest, I don't go to IGN or Gamespot or other places any more.

Mike from Morgantown

I stopped going to IGN for a few reasons.

1) They ruined their forum design, it's hideous now, whereas it used to have the same simplistic vibe that vgchartz has (this is the main reason I use vgchartz now).

2) Their main site is horrible for learning about gaming news. They report news up to 24 hours later than many other websites, sometimes they don't report news at all.

3) Their site limits the articles you can easily view.

4) I'm pretty sure there are more editorials on IGN than news posts nowadays.


If I were in charge of the site, I'd get rid of the design. I'd make it easier to access Wii, PS3, and 360 news with gigantic links to each console, make off-shoot links for all their other shit (Gear, Insider, Babes, Stars, Movies, yada yada yada), and create a new section of the main page dedicated to reporting the newest of news as soon as it becomes available (just short blurbs, with expanded versions of that news coming later).

Then again, what do I know? I never majored in anything related to website design. :p

Yeah..this is to be expected. IGN has dropped the ball on so many fronts..too many douche articles and writers there now...not to mention fanboy mothers and clown shoes

Well at least they are back up. After the redesign they forgot to put a link up for the first few days and the old one was dead. The usual from IGN, all Flash no substance.

I'd say that in light of lost readership, IGN is trying to go down the Conservative Radio path (Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck). I'd say more than half of Conservative Radio's listening audience is liberal minded people who tune in to precisely what they hate most simply because they feel the need to defend their ideals from what they perceive as lies, rhetoric, and hyperbole. What they don't realize is that it exacerbates the problem and only fuels the fire that they wish to extinguish. There is some sort of "quality" (not the right word, but not sure what else to call it) in hate speech, propaganda, and sensationalism that has a positive effect for the speaker by way of NEGATIVELY influencing the "target audience" or "defender". It's like people WANT to argue. This is why even Wii-centric forums are polluted by rabid 360/PS3 fans who don't even OWN a Wii, yet feel obligated to angrily display their opinions in places they have no actual legitimate interest in being. So my personal new agenda is to steer clear from all negativity, conjecture, and hate-fueled opinions and focus solely on the positive and informative sites. That's why most of my videogame-based online time is now spent on VGChartz and Gonintendo.com. It's best to just walk away. Defending your ideals to the uninformed will never convert anyone. For your own peace of mind, find those like-minded and focus on the positive aspects. You'll be much happier for it down the road.

As said it doesn't have to do with Nintendo fans but IGN's coverage in general. Their reviews when you take the written word far to many times don't match up with the scores. They far to many times write about the game they wish they had instead of the actual game they are playing. Taking points off a game as a result. THhen there is the blatant bias they show in their reviews and general unprofessionalism. It would be one thing if this was someone's side project but it isn't. They are suppose to be "professional" reviewers but hardly act like it. T

In terms of their Nintendo section (I mainly started checking them out this generation but no longer) it's clear no one on that site wants to be in that section anymore. Matt and Bozon have both all but left to cover other systems due to their restructuring but that was just the final piece. They were pretty much phoning it before that and seem to be complaining more and more. The latest podcast seems to be nothing but mocking of Nintendo and Nintendo fans (many who are also fans of other systems). Sure they were trying to be funny I think but they come off as nothing but jerks. Professional and these people shouldn't be linked.

I have issues with Gamespot in the past but I've never gotten this feeling with them and their reviews. Same for Gametrailers. I try to make up my own opinion and not just take their reviews for granted but they are far more reliable then IGN is and have been for a long time. I've taken back to reading gaming magazines instead. Though one has to be careful there as well. Nintendo Power is my Nintendo magazine of choice. I used to read PSM during the PS2 years but not sure how they are anymore. Will have to buy one to see.

IGN on the whole deserves their lose of traffic.