yet more proof that Kotaku,News4Gamers etc.etc. are destroying gaming!!

I;m sure we all saw the bombshell of the day!!

News4Gamers reports that stranglehold for the PS3 will be delayed indefinitely !!! its still on track for the 360.

wow that huge news!

surely there must be ram issues right?
the install base still an issue?
is the PS3 really too hard to program for??
this sheds some light on the gta4 issue ....right?

wrong! most recent headline....

"Stranglehold's PS3 delay ONLY for Euro version. US version still on track for September 17."

http://www.n4g.com/gaming/News-58093.aspx
""This is for the Euro version BTW. I received that press release also. As of last night, Midway North America informed us that:

Quote:
The full version of Stranglehold is currently expected to ship on August 27th for the Xbox 360 and PC, and September 17th for the PlayStation 3. PC and PlayStation 3 demos coming soon. "

"To be thorough, I just contacted Midway U.S. and got the following response:

Quote:
I can confirm that Stranglehold is shipping on 8/27 for X360 and PC and 9/17 for PS3 here in the U.S. If you have any questions, please let me know. "

heres what kotaku had to add to this misinformation:

"We're not sure exactly when we'll see Stranglehold for PS3, but it's been pushed back from a soft date of September 17th to ??? within 2007.

Following rumors that GTAIV was delayed for PS3 programming issues, it brings to question, again, the merit of releasing the same games on multiple next get systems. The Xbox 360, Wii and PS3 are a pile of incompatible hardware. And something tells me that most $30 million game developers would like to see their return on more than one console."

well never let it be said that Kotaku didnt rush to chum the waters of the fanboy ocean....all for click-revenue

not only should these sites retract their stories and update them with the correct information....which they assuredly will do...some half day later.....they should have to apologize to PS3 gamers and owners for posting headlines of this magnitude.....without doing any of the research GS,1UP,IGN obviously did.

how many PS3 gamers today had their morning ruined by this news or the following fanboy parade ?

ridiculous

so wait, what?

are you accusing kotaku of fanboy-ing? dewdddd...some of the ed's are usually ripping into 360s, they just report it how it is, with their own unique sense of humor, dont diss kotaku :)

oh no i dont hink they are sony haters at all...in fact they are just fanboy inciters for all systems.

if they could trash the 360 to get clicks they will.

my point is and always has been, that these sites are renegades willing to stoop to the lowest levels just for the sake of clicks (their sole income stream)

and in the meantime gamers and games in general take a hit...

These new glorified blog sites do a good job many times but they do try to make headlines by being more edgy maybe. I assume thats there way of being different than a full site like GS they are more opinionated.dvader654

well to be technical...there was no delay...it was misinformation, so the delay didnt start a fire in system wars misinformation from these blogs did.

and to those who say "well in rush to report they getwrong news" i say this

"blogs like kotaku are in a rush to report bad news"

Well, from what I have noticed they have updated the post.

UPDATE: Midway just forgot to attach a PS3 release date with their latest release. Stranglehold is on schedule for September 17th release.

These new glorified blog sites do a good job many times but they do try to make headlines by being more edgy maybe. I assume thats their way of being different than a full site like GS they are more opinionated.dvader654

They also break reports as they are coming out, like a news site. I read Kotaku a lot, I haven't even heard of the other site, but if they report a mistake they go back and edit it with an UPDATE or create whole new story with the correction. If they are unsure of the info they have acquired they place a big ole RUMOR tag on the story's title. Of course they are going to be more "edgy" they're a blog, and they do report a mistake once in a while, that is what happens when you report as an event is occuring.

GameSpot takes 3 friggen days to update their news. If Kotaku or these other gaming news blogs did that then they wouldn't get many clicks at all. News at the speed of a snail, that's GameSpot. They should just put the System Wars board in the news window, fanboys are faster than them :P