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Well of course everything is on par now; it's all public! I'm talking about before the information was 'etched in stone', so to speak.
Reporting rumors is bad form in the news business anyway, but I guess I would be the only one here to figure that.
Gamespot is and always has been slanted. Any Nintendo related thing you saw there was probably SENT there by their own PR people, and I can assure you had nothing to do with investigative reporting. Neither does the coverage of the other stuff but it's always slanted in favor of the big N over there.
The stories about Nintendo rumors are always positive ones and the Sony ones are almost always negative. It's called 'spin', aka 'the angle', and it is a very real thing.
None of this opposition to it really concerns me, honestly. The Wii will do better than the gamecube did out of curiosity but I think that the PS3 is still going to crush everything in front of it. And sure, maybe all the people who work at McDonald's and CVS can't exactly spring for it on release day...but the industry's consumer base isn't made entirely of young people just getting on their feet, either. Those of us like myself will be able to buy it without even batting an eye, and I think there's enough people in good finances like myself to put it over the top.
Reporting rumors is bad form in the news business anyway, but I guess I would be the only one here to figure that.
Gamespot is and always has been slanted. Any Nintendo related thing you saw there was probably SENT there by their own PR people, and I can assure you had nothing to do with investigative reporting. Neither does the coverage of the other stuff but it's always slanted in favor of the big N over there.
The stories about Nintendo rumors are always positive ones and the Sony ones are almost always negative. It's called 'spin', aka 'the angle', and it is a very real thing.
None of this opposition to it really concerns me, honestly. The Wii will do better than the gamecube did out of curiosity but I think that the PS3 is still going to crush everything in front of it. And sure, maybe all the people who work at McDonald's and CVS can't exactly spring for it on release day...but the industry's consumer base isn't made entirely of young people just getting on their feet, either. Those of us like myself will be able to buy it without even batting an eye, and I think there's enough people in good finances like myself to put it over the top.