So if MS has only enough news in one given week for say 8 articles and Sony has enough news for say 16, you think we should just omit 8 pieces of Sony news just to make the 360 looks better and make their fans happy?

Uh, I don't see how that is fair or how it makes any sense.

I would always ask myself "is this news worthy? Does it contribute to anything significant? Do the readers need this? Are we giving a balanced picture here?"

I would not go for it and post everything I liked just because it gives the site hits. I really didn't knew about such a policy, that hits are so important. That's sad.

At the same time most of you people have the nerve to complain that game developers and publishers are repeating the same formula and only think about their sales in front of creativity, originality and artistic integrity.

The 360 community has always been an endangered species here on VGC. I don't see what can be done about it other than doing what the mod team already tries to do: Keep things civil and constructive. They can't force 360 fans to join the web site or contribute to the news section, and it's unfair to penalize Sony or Nintendo fan groups just because the 360 group isn't as enthusiastic as they are. Trying to drag other groups down to the 360's level isn't going to make things better for anybody.

It's not all about site hits!

We don't post any random crap that comes up. But if something is news, it's relevant, a lot of people would want to know about it (Heavy Rain is disproportionately popular on this site), and it will thus direct more traffic to the site, then it's a good thing.

If we wanted hits, aren't there easier ways to do it? Honestly, if we made one "Wii is doomed" article, we would get a million hits in about an hour. But that would be dishonest, and untrue, and unfair to the readers. So, we don't do it.

I challenge you to find one news post, just one, which is concerned with a small feature of a game that nobody cares about.

The fact that there is a lack of 360-related articles is entirely due to the fact that nobody wants to post them, because those people who post don't have very much interest in the 360. Is that the fault of the contributors, or those who could contribute, but can't be bothered? I agree that this is a problem. An over-abundance of PS3-related articles is not a problem. Call me when we start getting articles about the sales of the Hero of Sparta PS3 Mini, because then I'll admit it's an issue.

I knew the success of the PS3 was going to upset the 360 fans. Its simple at this time the PS3 has more going on news wise. You have the continued sales dominations between the HD consoles, exclusive game news, 3rd party game news, Japan Releases which PS3 has much more then 360, DLC news, Bundle news, I mean I could go on, being a suporter of both the PS3 and 360, its more that the PS3 is on Fire at this time, sales are up, and there staying up, lots of great exclusives comming soon, MAG, GOW3, Halo Reach is a ways away. The bottom line is there is much more to talk about PS3 wise. 360 fans don't get upset the 360 has had its share of greatness, now the light is shinning in PS3 thats life.

cry about it

If we missed a worthy MS article for "spamming a HR screenshot news", I'd agree, but in your own words, we don't. There's no "balance", we post what we stumble upon, be it Sony, MS or Ninty, we don't have an indicator that tells us we should post more MS news or less Sony news.

So, by posting new screenshots of HR we're being unprofessional because we posted some before, nevermind that people actually want to see more pics of HR, why would I stop posting things that people want to see.

And as I say, if people thought we were unprofessional, they simply wouldn't read our articles, something that doesn't happen as they're getting more and more views, thus showing people are thinking of us as a serious news site. Hardly "unprofessional"

@ slimebeast: as a news site, basically even the smallest thing could be newsworthy. It's not because bubba 1 doesn't like it, that Bubba 2 might not. So in fact, there is already some selection being done.

Just wanted to point this out.


Total Microsoft related News articles - 3,521

Total Sony related news articles - 3,920

Total Nintendo related news articles - 4,010

Now, take into account that Sony have more consoles on the market than anyone else... The TOTAL numbers difference isn't really as bad as you are making it sound.

Objective and unbiased, certainly.

Now, let's imagine that you have time to post one news story. You see two interesting stories on N4G/whatever.

-One related to Epic Mickey. A developer interview, with a little new information.

-One related to Halo: Reach. Now, this is just a series of screenshots. They don't show very much.

Now, be completely honest here. Which do you post? If you chose the first, then you should probably be applying for the news team. If you chose the second...well, you could still apply for the news team, because that's relevant, it's related to a popular game, and it's new. Now if the screenshots were six months old and had already been posted, the article could not have been posted.