@dragonlance1989 It's gotta be a troll. Otherwise he wouldn't play games at all because everything's been done. "A new RPG? But I could level up in the first Final Fantasy! Ridiculous."
I have very little interest in the Vita, especially at launch, but this article is awful. I like Infinity Blade as much as the next guy, but if that game were a PSP release, reviews would rip it to shreds because it's all style and no substance. There is an undeniable expectation of huge quality loss when dealing with phone/tablet gaming compared to more dedicated portables. Sony isn't trying to outsell those devices with the Vita, it's just trying to implement some of their features into our hardcore portable game machine. But this article isn't even necessary. Why are games the second thing that will be talked about? I don't want to read someone's misguided business assumptions about why they think a company failed, I want to read about relevant impressions about this new piece of gaming hardware. There's some great info in here (proprietary charge cable, pricey memory, longish load times) but it's padded with such biased venom towards the company's business strategy that all credibility was gone before I even reached the ridiculous Angry Birds comparison. Review what you actually have, not what you were hopeful for.
Unfortunately jecht, a lot of people do rely on reviews, or at least the scores. There are tons of more casual gamers that still buy games that won't spend time reading reviews, but will look at scores at sites like gamespot or more commonly, metacritic. Regardless, what a whiney blog post. I keep trying to convince myself that Gamespot today is as good as it was four years ago...but it's just not. It has devolved into the embarrassment that IGN used to be back then, partially because of wishy washy approaches like this. What's being said in this post about how they receive game is true, but that doesn't mean it's "hard" or requires a different approach. It just requires picking an approach and sticking to it. You want to review retail copies on retail hardware with real world multiplayer? That's fine, then your reviews will be "true" but will come out later than competitors, but it gives you a chance to make the review blog more active and something to highlight on the front page. There will always be arguments for one way over another, because there's not really a right answer. But other sites don't seem to be struggling with the philosophy behind what they do; maybe Gamespot should consider that the best practice is simply having one you stick with.
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