Editorial judgment? Original content? What are those? Everyone who's anyone knows the hot new thing is letting readers vote on what counts as news on sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and N4G, the last of which got a cash infusion from mega-publisher Future U.S., it was announced today.The publishing giant behind all three official U.S. gaming magazines spent an undisclosed sum to obtain an undisclosed minority share of the site. It might be a sound investment -- according to the press release, "N4G received 3.65 million visits in January 2008, with 17.8 million page views and nearly a million unique visitors." Not bad for a site that makes its readers do all the work.
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The most idiotic videogame site in the history of the internet.
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Most of the stories on N4G are posted DAYS b4 sites like your beloved Joystiq. And most of the stories are clickouts to sites like Kotaku, IGN, PSU, 1up...and so on.
So Fernandos where o where does that leave Joystiq? If they post the SAME stories that N4G posts DAYS b4...again i say Fernandos...where does that leave Joystiq?
And like you said, n4g are just clickouts, nothing original.
The comments are often brain-dead stupid, and some of the descriptions/editing done by the "Contributors" are pretty horrible, but I like how quickly news pops up on there.
N4g is good because not only does it get news alot quicker then joystiq, but it also gets ALOT more news. Browsing n4g I find out when new starcraft 2 information is released, stuff joystiq just does not report on. And its like this for other games as well. I still goto joystiq but on slow days and weeks (like this week and today) on joystiq when their biggest story is red fraction 3 announcment, I head over to n4g and find out lots of information that goes undocumented here
Joystiq isn't jealous... is it? XD
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Here is an example:
News source: "Nintendo's Wii is selling more consoles in Japan."
PS3 fanboys from N4G : "BUT-BUTT THE PSTRIPLE WILL EVENTUALLY TAKE OVER!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL...."
Just get rid of it.
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They put news like: PS3 outsell the 360 in an unknow country this week, by 150 units!
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Thats n4g.com
Now, combine everything, and n4g is the result.
I doubt that, I'm not the type of guy who post's biased opinions. I don't actually try to be troll like you, I don't immediately try to post to be first and then say something that will start a "war". I believe most people here want to have an educated/unbiased conversation, but you and some others come along and ruin that.
Sure a lot of it is untreated effluent but I visit it more often than Joystiq to be honest for up to date news.
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http://www.gameblews.com/?p=6116
Marty you wanted proof that the PS3 OUTSOLD the 360 worldwide, NOT just N.A. but worldwide.
Well now, here you go...PROOF just as you wanted from Microsoft and Sony.
Game on bitches
I do not CARE about the Wii. The Wii is not in my opinion even PART of this latest generation of consoles with NEW not 10year old CPU's and GPU's that have more memory and run faster.
All fads last about 2 years. This FAD will be no different. Just my opinion of course but I will say I told you so when it happens.
Just the other day I overheard some soccermom say to another soccer mom that she has had her Wii for over a year and that the only game they play is Wii Sports and she wished that there were more games like Wii sports. She was bragging about something she did in the game so I am assuming that she still plays it somewhat. But really, when the soccermoms get bored with Wii Sports what then Fernandos what then?
This generation
PS3 and Xbox 360
Last generation
PS2 and Wii
http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/02/rothbarts-rant-80-microsoft-screwed-up.html
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