Wow. Nintendo.com is way down that list, behind even Wii.ign.com

I visit IGN daily,mostly bcuz of Jessica chobot

IGN seems to have been going downhill for years. Somehow they managed to come up with an even worse layout than the last one.

I've been pretty IGN-centric for the last few years. I only recently started posting here and such. But up until recently I think they did pretty good with their wii reviews. I didn't really adventure outside of wii.ign though and anyone who trusts one source for their reviews these days is misinformed regardless of what that source is. Gamerankings/metacritic, ign, amazon, and forum opinions are what I use to make game buying decisions.

I agree about the layout. Absolutely horrendous.

I used to regular IGN when I first started going onto the internet. Way back when they had just merged. I left about 4 years ago, and never looked back. It's actually quite amazing. I spend A LOT of time reading/looking/talking about games, but I have never felt the urge to as much as take a look at their frontpage.

In other words, it's a horrible gaming site, that I avoid even more than Gamespot.

Dropping half your visits and only have some upswing does not mean it's in a good position. Honestly I'm not surprised. The majority of the gaming consumers has swung towards the Wii. Considering IGN seem unreliable these days in regards to the Wii and expanded gaming in general. Just not usable.

Games should not be scored lower due to things like 6 year old target audiance. A Parent wanting to buy their kid a good game for age will still look under a normal rating.

I think the first poster was commenting on Matt making a lot of snide comments about Nintendo 'Losing quality' and 'Not focusing on the core market'. As well as his constant referring to games and content on the HD systems as something Nintendo should have. IE: the head writer of the Nintendo section of IGN is sounding more like someone who is against the Wii and is following the whole online console wars junk. And in his case, he's seems to be siding with the HD systems.

Peoples defense of IGN aside, they have been following the same trend as almost any other reviewer this gen. Giving the Wii less than stellar (mocking) coverage and comments in their previews and news sections. And I doubt anyone can call many of their recent 'coverage' for the Wii to be anything but hearsay and slander, from constantly starting up rumors of games like Kid Icarus and Star Fox to poking fun at Wii Music and Wii Fit every chance they get. Like many news sites, they're treating the Wii as a secondary system which they feel they can pretty much say anything they want about, because they feel no one 'important' cares about the Wii (aka, if you like the Wii, you're not a 'hardcore' gamer).

With this kind of mentality and blatant unprofessionalism posted right on their site (and has been going on since last gen with the GC and GBA), its no wonder viewership has retreated. Or it could just simply be their 'core' readership was always a set market of readers...and they all took IGNs hint to jump over to the so called 'core' systems and abandon Nintendos the 'kiddy based gimmick machines with only 3 good games'. Which could also account for their lower readership as the HD systems accounts for a smaller userbase than Wii and DS.

Im a Regular on the IGN boards and its getting really bad over there

Its turning into "Lets Bash Nintendo Daily" site and the PS3 and Xbox fanboys are worst than ever!

After that article Matt wrote on friday i think im going to spend more time on this site

I really, really doubt Nintendo fans make up that much of IGN's audience. No game since Brawl would have garnered a significant amount of hits.