Email: IGN Podcast (I know you’ve listened)

Hi, Sean!

I was listening to IGN’s Nintendo Podcast yesterday and I literally wanted to give you a call because you HAD to listen too.

But i’ve just seen a post on the blog and I’m about to read it.

It is really sad that IGN is doing this kind of crap with loyal readers and fans. To bring hardcore douches on a Nintendo podcast? What was the point of that?

When they bash the Wii is because it’s ridiculous; but when a reader defends the Wii, then the reader is ridiculous for not wanting, ‘OF COURSE’, a HD gaming system with achievements.

My gosh, IGN is gone too.

Do you have an Insider subscription plan? :)
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Of course not.
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What is going on is very similar to how the newspaper industry began to decline. Newspapers, as well as TV media, began to start saying whatever they wanted. People would write in as helpful readers to help correct the newspaper article or whatever. The newspaper’s response was to laugh at the reader and say, “You do not know how to do proper journalism”. The news business is the only business I can think of where the customer is told he is wrong. Very rapidly, an erosion of viewers occurred with TV media and newspapers. They fled to alternatives such as forums and blogs on the Internet.

These game websites might think they are immune since they get exclusive previews and exclusive reviews before anyone else. But they should be warned that even the major newspapers and TV media thought the same exact way. The ‘traditional media’ kept jerking on viewers’ chains, kept making non-news into news, and kept bleeding the editorials into the news where one can no longer tell any difference between the two. And ‘traditional media’ is currently on its death bed. The ‘traditional media’ thought everyone would keep putting up with their crap. And look at where that brought them.

The “Game Industry” consists of organizations of interlocking self-interests. For example, the ‘game journalism’ and the ‘game companies’ are very different but their self-interests interlock them. ‘Game journalists’ will suck up just to get exclusive content. ‘Game companies’ will speak only to the ‘game journalists’ if it means they can easily control them. And there are other groups too such as the ‘analysts’. Why does Michael Pachter sound as if he is on the payroll of Take Two?

Perhaps we’ve been going at bringing down the “Game Industry” in the wrong way by targeting it generally. Perhaps if we target one or two of these interlocking self-interests specifically, the entire system will come crashing down. I will try to come up with some ideas.

In order for gamers to win, the “industry” must lose.