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Originally posted by: TrueNerd
Do you think any of that actually mattered? Even if he did play the role of the Nintendo Defender last gen, do you think the 'Cube would have sold even one more unit? I don't.
Actually, yeah, I'm quite certain that there were probably quite a few people who saw how negatively of a light he put the cube in and didn't purchase one accordingly. Statistically, considering IGN's traffic, it would be impossible NOT to know this is the case.
Positive internet buzz encourages people to do things. They feel safer in purchasing decisions and more justified in not buying other products if other sources (in this case, the internet) has advised against it.
But that's not even the point I'm making here. Yeah, Matt's negativity probably steered people away from the cube, but it's the fact that he was so willing to change his tune when Nintendo was back on the up and up which makes his lack of a spine and the fact that he isn't even a Nintendo fan at all so blatantly obvious.
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Would you prefer it if he declared connectivity as the greatest innovation ever and that the two year software drought to close out the GameCube's life was a good thing, just because Nintendo was doing it? No! Then he's just another fanboy that no one should listen to and if people are actually tricked by the "journalists" at IGN, well that's too damn bad. Spreading around stupidity and over-hyping/over-scoring mediocre games is NOT the way I want Nintendo to "win" the console wars, and I very much do not believe that that's the only way to do so.
No, I would prefer that Matt do what any sensible fan of a particular brand would do: acknowledge the failings but give due credit for the successes, and that's something that, between spending most of a GC mailbag thread talking about Halo and bashing the DS in favor of his PSP, Matt apparently never found time to do.
It is possible to accentuate the good while acknowledging the bad and STILL make a compelling argument: I know this because I PERSONALLY did this many times in defense of Nintendo and their GC and it's a pretty safe bet that ANYONE who is reading this sentence has also done the same, what with this formerly being "Planet
Gamecube" and all.
But rather than make that kind of compelling argument Matt chose the easy way out which was to make it blatantly clear that he preferred the Xbox and all of its offerings. I don't know if he did this due to fear because he knew he couldn't make the same compelling argument or because he just preferred the Xbox and its games. Either way, he is NOT a Nintendo fan. His primary console of choice was the Xbox for those years and that's why I find this act of crawling back to Nintendo so laughably pathetic.
Bottom line: the man is either a coward or a fair-weather friend, or a deplorable mix of both. I think any sensible person would agree that the reporting and reviewing about Nintendo games should be done by someone who is ACTUALLY a fan of Nintendo, rather than someone who pretends to be when it's socially acceptable due to Nintendo's newfound popularity, or when it allows him to scam a paycheck from a company who doesn't really care WHAT he says about Nintendo in the first place.
He praised the Xbox because it was perceived as better than the GC. He praised the PSP because he believed it would crush the DS, and I
sincerely hope the crow he ate as a result never stopped pecking and clawing up his esophagus as it went down.
How can anyone say he isn't just a drifter, devoid of conviction, willing to cling to the current market leader because it makes him feel better about himself? I've known plenty of people who are smug about the brands they buy and how their "brand" does (I did a podcast about just this topic). Some people will support the winning side, mostly just because they lack the conviction to stand up for their beliefs when those beliefs run counter to popular standards.
Listen to REAL Nintendo fans, not some shmuck who lacks the balls to defend Nintendo when they're not the market leader.
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