Kotaku is just flabbergasted and confused to discover that its commenters are a big gang of hateful, bile spewing losers that attack anything they don’t like without thinking (be sure to read all the Kotaku links, as this story spans multiple posts and days
Oh, the irony. They created these monsters with their “reporting!!!”
http://kotaku.com/5454378/new-super-mario-bros-wii-has-already-outsold-mario-galaxy
I never read Kotaku so this is all new to me. If Kotaku is busy baiting and attacking gamers, then who are they working for? And likewise, why do sites like IGN think it is a good idea to dump on their readers (specifically the Nintendo ones). Do they not want readers?
A good project for anyone tired of this crap coming from the Industry Controlled Press would be to find out how these sites are getting their revenue. Is it from advertisements? How do they get money? It clearly isn’t coming from attacking their audience. Once we find out how they are getting their revenue, you can knock the pins from underneath them.
I’m pleased that people are giving Kotaku hell. I like gamers because they are smart. And anyone paying attention can tell just how bizarre the press coverage has been this generation. The Wii has always had its last best sales day. “Hardcore gaming” is always about to make a comeback. There were accusations of ‘bias’ back during the previous generation. But this current generation really shows the truth that cannot be denied any longer.
How pathetic is it? Remember Geoff Keighley making the bet with Reggie Fils-Aime about NSMB Wii outselling Modern Warfare 2? It got much media attention. And when it did, and clear it would be that NSMB Wii would easily outsell Modern Warfare 2 on a platform within those months, Keighley began to suddenly jump in and say, “No, Reggie bet against the Xbox 360 version!” When December NPD came out, Keighley’s twitter was him going crazy about “No, Reggie bet against the Xbox 360 version. All the other media misreported it.” It got so pathetic that on NeoGAF, someone said, “But Reggie did bet against the Xbox 360 version. It is in the transcript.” Oh really? “I wrote the transcript,” he would then say.
It was so pathetic because there was VIDEO of the exchange. Keighley’s approach was: “Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?” You cannot argue against the video. In any arena of fact finding, say in the court of law, the video alone would shatter anything else said. But the thing is the interest is not about putting the facts out there. Keighley specifically knows that Nintendo went the User Generated Content direction (all the game journalists know it), but none of them are reporting it. Why? Why do they continue to distort and say things that are not true? Why are they carrying the water that “Casual Games Imploding!” and “Wii sales dying!” when sales data shows Wii sales having the best month of sales of any game console ever made?
Have you noticed that, despite all the talk of ‘third party games don’t sell on Wii’, that much is done to make sure gamers do not rally around a third party game? Every thing party game for Wii is gored by the Industry Controlled Press rather than encouraged. Look at the Industry Controlled Press’s reaction to the Conduit or to even the Call of Duty ports on the Wii. And games like Resident Evil 4, Carnival Games, or Just Dance are just ‘dismissed’ underneath that magical ‘casual’ rug that somehow covers every game that does sell well. If a game like Monster Hunter Tri sold well, it would be declared a ‘casual game’. Incredible how that works. And the games that are ‘championed’ by the Industry Controlled Press are all games they know that aren’t going to sell anyway. Mad World? Zack and Wiki? Who are these people trying to fool?
And it is an amazing coincidence that the Industry Controlled Press champion and pester Nintendo to make games they know will not sell. did you see how NSMB Wii was covered after E3 2009? It was hated on. It was deliberately called a ‘DS port’ when they all knew that wasn’t the case. Wii Sports was hated on as well. Yet, games like 3d Mario and story filled Zelda (“And it needs voice acting!” says Matt) along with the Metroid games are all games that will not break Nintendo out of the N64/Gamecube ditch they were in. However, games like Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and NSMB Wii are. Keep in mind I am not saying there is ‘hidden agenda’ here. I am only pointing out these amazing coincidences. If anything, it shows just how out of touch the journalists are (that is if they are not Industry Puppets with other people’s hands up their butts).
December’s NPD really scared the crap out of the “Industry”. Wii was not supposed to sell four million in a month. Wii was supposed to be in serious decline by now. So it is why we have seen a sudden rise in viral marketers keep spreading in forums about the “Hidden costs with the Wii” (because of things like *shock* batteries and additional controllers!) and that NSMB Wii is “a lazy game” (then why doesn’t Microsoft make it? Wouldn’t that imply Microsoft is lazier or lacks the talent to make such a game?).
Attacking NSMB Wii will not work. (Note how there were no such attacks on NSMB DS. The reason why is because Microsoft is not competing against the DS, so there was no viral marketer crusade against it.) Gamers all see NSMB Wii as a ‘real game’ and are very happy that it exists. Gamers are never going to hate on Super Mario Brothers.
These ‘journalists’ are really showing just how Industry Controlled or Industry Manipulated they are. “And if they are neither?” Then it shows just how out of touch they are with the gaming market and that they ought to get another job.
I hope they keep it up. By their clumsy actions, they are revealing to all gamers that the “Game Industry” is a fraud.
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