8th April 2004, 11:49 AM
They barely have anything close to news most days. I mean, have you seen the big name articles they have lately?
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/504/504985p1.html
"Classics Reborn" SOUNDS like they are about to list some remakes coming out right? No, it's just a bunch of people saying "you know what game would be really cool if they remade it in 3D?". I mean, that's not news! That's not even entertainment news! That's just stuff I do already with my friends, and I KNOW no one else would want to know or even care about that.
Then they did the same thing with the NES wish list. Honestly, THAT'S your top story? That's not a story! Reporting the wants of the REPORTERS and NOTHING ELSE is NOT news!
I know they need to make money, and to get people to pay for it they need to provide news very often, but the fact is that the game industry can be rather devoid of news for long periods of time. Reporting "non-news" like "a rumor has it that Sony will be adding a satellite service to the PSP, though Sony denies said rumors" (meaning the rumor is already disproven but they want to report it anyway), or worse, "we think it would be SO awesome if they made a new Battletoads game" (Seriously, as though you wouldn't get the same quality "news report" just by reading Scribes at Rareware.com) does NOT make it worth paying for. It just adds garbage to wade through to get to real news.
http://ps2.ign.com/articles/504/504985p1.html
"Classics Reborn" SOUNDS like they are about to list some remakes coming out right? No, it's just a bunch of people saying "you know what game would be really cool if they remade it in 3D?". I mean, that's not news! That's not even entertainment news! That's just stuff I do already with my friends, and I KNOW no one else would want to know or even care about that.
Then they did the same thing with the NES wish list. Honestly, THAT'S your top story? That's not a story! Reporting the wants of the REPORTERS and NOTHING ELSE is NOT news!
I know they need to make money, and to get people to pay for it they need to provide news very often, but the fact is that the game industry can be rather devoid of news for long periods of time. Reporting "non-news" like "a rumor has it that Sony will be adding a satellite service to the PSP, though Sony denies said rumors" (meaning the rumor is already disproven but they want to report it anyway), or worse, "we think it would be SO awesome if they made a new Battletoads game" (Seriously, as though you wouldn't get the same quality "news report" just by reading Scribes at Rareware.com) does NOT make it worth paying for. It just adds garbage to wade through to get to real news.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)