Nintendo has teamed up Rufus Hound, an English comedian, in an effort to win the UK audience in a series of videos that highlight “The Wii U Difference.” The goal of the video series is to create awareness about the Wii U which it has been lacking up to this point. However, with the first video, Nintendo might have buried themselves in to a deeper whole by degrading the most crucial piece of the Wii U hardware.
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Game reviews have been around since the mid-1970s. Play Meter was the first of its kind. During their time, it was mainly coin-operated machines that were covered, as certain arcade games that many of us consider classics such as Space Invaders were popular. Other publications sprang up, such as Arcade Alley in 1979. From then on, gaming journalism was on the rise. Electronic Games Magazine, Famitsu, The Games Machine, Nintendo Power, and others all gave way to gaming journalism’s growing popularity and importance. In the beginning, gaming journalism was about the love of the games, the history of the product, and giving potential consumers genuine insight. The passion was there. The commitment was there. The insight was there. And most importantly, the trust was there.
"I've got a great idea! Let's turn this article about corporate journalism into an attack on gamers!"
Honestly, I find it amusing how all the incel hater left over rejects from gamer's gate lose their shit every time a non-scantily clad female protagonist is announced. Lol, they should just get out of gaming -- clearly it isn't for them anymore.
They've become nothing more than corporate shills. Rather than speaking truth to power, they're just looking at the latest clickbait no matter how false it is.
The straight up lies are annoying. Then journalists claim that a lie is an opinion. Um... no.
yea its been like this for years and only has gotten worse during covid.
they are sometimes worse than celeb. trash news ha.
"you will NOT believe what the DEV of XYZ said"
or and those are my favourites,
"XYZ game gets REMASTER TREATMENT" and you click on the link and its just a god damn mod ha.
"XYZ Players are saying THIS about the new update!"
And the article is based on a single tweet from someone with an anime profile image
It's going to get even worse because IGN bought out a bunch of their competition this year. So IGN now publishes games, sells games, reviews the games they publish and sell, and controls a large portion of games media. What could go wrong?
The gaming landscape today is full of corporations trying to suck as much money out of us as possible while giving us as little as possible in return that's the biggest problem I see right now and the fact the journos should be the ones calling the gross practices out now suckle at the teat of the publishers to stay in favour and maintain working relationships to avoid being blacklisted for reviews and preview events show their interests do not align with ours.
Hey Chris, not sure if others have already suggested but here’s another idea for N4G, a website trust meter.
There used to be a way to click on the website of an article and downvote or something like that.
It can be like Steam’s rating, all time & recent.
Then the list of journalism website ratings accessible from a subdomain, jowebrat.n4g dot com :)
@victorMaje No, this site user opinions? NO. This is not how it works my Victor. Trust meter??? LOL.
User reviews... this is what you have to look for, because games are made for users... not journalists.
Even if something is review bombed... there has to be a reason, something is wrong and you should hold on with your hard earned money.
Game sites are pushing... what they need to push, or want to push, or both.
Yes always seek out facts, right on Chris.
@SimpleDad
Of course games are made for users. That’s the whole point. I already seek out facts. Check my comment history you’ll see how I always advise to check trusted user reviews & I don’t pre-order.
Some journalism sites however do have user reviews, they’re not all bad journalism, these would raise the trust score of the journalism website, other stories with an agenda or disingenuous reviews could lower it.
Why not have such a tool coming out of N4G? It would be the metacritic of journalism websites, voted by N4G users. That doesn’t mean one should stop from also seeking user reviews.
@victor that was an old feature on N4G. It went away before bubbles iirc.
Bubbles were how many comments we were allowed to make per story and you could earn more or lose them. Trolls would have 1 bubble. New users were limited to the number of comments so that prevented spam accounts.
A user like me had 12 bubbles right before it went away.
I miss bubbles.... and Cat.
***Even if something is review bombed... there has to be a reason, something is wrong and you should hold on with your hard earned money. ***
Rarely are review bombs rational. Rarely.
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Sadly, F-Zero: GP Legend did not become the commercial hit Nintendo was expecting, at least in the West. The game came and went, just like its anime counterpart. It was the last hoorah for the franchise in the States, if you don’t count F-Zero 99, that is. It wasn’t a bad game per se, but it felt like a setback after the excellent Maximum Velocity or F-Zero GX. As a result, it probably did not sell that well, Nintendo saw it as a sign that Westerners weren’t into F-Zero, and we’ve been living in this hellish drought of antigrav races featuring bird-named racers ever since. Twenty years later, it clearly doesn’t hold up very well, with a lot of people barely remembering its existence, unlike F-Zero GX."
"The great games require a game pad” only to turn to the viewer and snicker “No, not really.” "
This is an odd moment for the advert. I, at first, thought it was a fake advert taking the mick out of the Wii U (some sort of comedy show). I almost reported the post until I released it was real. One bad to do when advertising a product is to say your product/or part of it isn't really needed.
I still think Nintendo need completely change tack with their advert direction. Sitting with family and friends watch TV (on those rare occasions) they wonder what that good look game is. Nintendo need to advertise it like this. Show something cool with explosions or something like that. We are fickle beings
These adds need more Dinosaurs.
@GenericNameHere. Exploding Dinosaurs in fighter jets like my avatar!
My god that was a bad advert.
Do Nintendo really want this console to fail?
didnt they just praise literally a second after, it was a joke. Like i dont NEED wipe cream, but it makes the smoothy taste that much better. Quit over analyzing
Very good advert in my eyes....
Another article twisting the words of the original,look the ad says it's the icing on the cake if you watch it....basically saying the GAMEPAD makes it superior over other consoles ect great advert....and with Windwaker,Ghosts,Watchdogs,Don keykong,Wonderful 101,ect it will be a success..