False information, Clickbait Journalism & Popular Misconceptions

[AshHunter216]

That entire file dump is out of context. We're missing key pieces of ALL of it. Especially the slides. Those were clearly meant to go along with a presentation to contextualize them, and we have none of that.

That's part of what infuriates me with how the sites covering this have chosen to do so. We got that "Rift Apart lost $8mil" everywhere. Later someone finally noticed it was a sales projection forecast from June 2020. Then the infamous "Call of Duty slides" which... were from 2021 and contained nothing we hadn't heard Jim Ryan say during the ABK hearings. And when the "journalists" see this, they... leave their original posts and videos up and just quietly drop an update in the article or in a pinned comment as if that fixes it.

Irresponsibility, recklessness, and all-around nasty practices.

And they internally justify it by saying PlayStation is doing too well and need to be "humbled" anyway.

 

[JAHGamer]

Reddit has a serious hate boner for PlayStation. Whenever someone calls it out they get hit with whataboutism from shills.

they're all coping by saying Sony is getting fleeced with the deal and they understand why "Xbox declined it"

A. Sony isn't getting fleeced at all
B. I doubt Marvel went to Microsoft before Sony about X-Men
C. Even if it was, who cares if the trillion dollar company doesn't make a lot of money from the deal when you get a good game on your preferred platform?

 

[Swolf712]

Reddit has a serious hate boner for PlayStation. Whenever someone calls it out they get hit with whataboutism from shills.

Didn't they make an entire subreddit just to share Insomniac's stolen data around?

 

[AshHunter216]

they're all coping by saying Sony is getting fleeced with the deal and they understand why "Xbox declined it"

A. Sony isn't getting fleeced at all
B. I doubt Marvel went to Microsoft before Sony about X-Men
C. Even if it was, who cares if the trillion dollar company doesn't make a lot of money from the deal when you get a good game on your preferred platform?

Mental gymnastics to make themselves feel better about not getting X-Men.

 

[Jim Ryan]

 

[Gediminas]

every game is most important

 

[anonpuffs]

every game is most important

Wait til E3... oh wait

 

[Jim Ryan]

Didn't they make an entire subreddit just to share Insomniac's stolen data around?

Did they? Really?

 

[Swolf712]

Did they? Really?

They did. r/insomniacleaks

Insane.

 

[Syndr0mePK]

Not sure if this qualifies but who remembers VG247 confusing Uncharted 2 with Uncharted 4? That was the funniest and saddest journalism I have ever seen.

 

[Sircaw]

Not sure if this qualifies but who remembers VG247 confusing Uncharted 2 with Uncharted 4? That was the funniest and saddest journalism I have ever seen.

I am personally not a fan of Uncharted 4, but 2 is one of the best games I have ever played on the PlayStation.

I put it up there with Bloodborne as one of my all-time favourites.

Saying that i find it hard that people could confuse the two, unless of course they did not bother playing them

 

[Syndr0mePK]

I am personally not a fan of Uncharted 4, but 2 is one of the best games I have ever played on the PlayStation.

I put it up there with Bloodborne as one of my all-time favourites.

Saying that i find it hard that people could confuse the two, unless of course they did not bother playing them

I have no idea what happened but there should be no doubt the person didn't play Uncharted 2 before. Otherwise, there is no way you can confuse the two. But to their credit they sucked it up and apologized for it.

Letter from the editor: an apology to Naughty Dog and Uncharted fans

We'd like to apologise to Naughty Dog for a massive mistake we published last month.

www.vg247.com

 

[AshHunter216]

I am personally not a fan of Uncharted 4, but 2 is one of the best games I have ever played on the PlayStation.

I put it up there with Bloodborne as one of my all-time favourites.

Saying that i find it hard that people could confuse the two, unless of course they did not bother playing them

A lot of these gaming media types barely play games but have the loudest opinions about them.

 

[balrogboy]

Well to their credit didnt starfield turned out to be shit?

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

every game is most important

and unprecedented!

Same as politics news, people say this all the time... so you have to disconnect from the opinion makers and take an actual look around.

 

[Johnic]

There's a swarm of 'This generation of video games sucks" videos on youtube. All using almost the same video titles, covering the same exact topic.
Games suck, consoles are dead (while conveniently leaving Nintendo out of it) and pushing multiplat releases and PC gaming. The comments are about what you expect. "I don't even use my PS5".

It's so fucking transparent. We seriously need content creators filtered out and those found on the payroll marked as such. And obligatory "This video is brought to you by Microsoft" at the start of every video.

 

[Alabtrosmyster]

There's a swarm of 'This generation of video games sucks" videos on youtube. All using almost the same video titles, covering the same exact topic.
Games suck, consoles are dead (while conveniently leaving Nintendo out of it) and pushing multiplat releases and PC gaming. The comments are about what you expect. "I don't even use my PS5".

It's so fucking transparent. We seriously need content creators filtered out and those found on the payroll marked as such. And obligatory "This video is brought to you by Microsoft" at the start of every video.

YouTube makes content recommendations to YouTubers in a given space to create videos on trending topics. I'm fairly sure that they have to jump on this to get noticed by the algorithm, as it means people are watching these videos for some reason.

This is part of suckification process of social networks content (internet in general).

 

[Nitro]

Tom Henderson (The Verge)