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GameSpot misses the mark

I love gamespot like a jealous boyfriend (whatever that means), but I've got to say they missed the mark with the whole revolution page.  IGN's is so much better because:

1-they had it up much sooner, thereby attracting all nintendo fans to their site

2-they aren't sticking with the gay purple background. Unlike Gamespot, they acknowledge that not all of nintendo's hardware is coloured purple.

3-they have plenty of articles and info on revolution.  Gamespot may say that they focus on each platform based on how much it's page is visited, but if they keep doing that, less and less people will want to visit gamespot for nintendo news BECAUSE of gamespot not supporting them as much.

4-IGN actually has people who are totally devoted to one platform at a time, for example "matt" is in charge of revolution. period.  He will constantly look for revolution info, and hence, we get lots of good stuff.  He found out all the revolution's specs, and gamespot doesnt have a thing on the rev's hardware (at least not that particular info, which is the biggest rev news since the controller was revealed).

5-the depth in ign is much greater.  They (for example) had articles like "75 reasons to be excited about metroid prime 2", and "8 things you may of missed in the Zelda trailer" where they really put some effort into presenting nintendo, and this is true with their revolution coverage as well.

I love gamespot, and I know they have said many nice things about Nintendo, and I do not suspect any kind of bias at all.  They simply F'd up, lets face it.  If you are a big Nintendo fan, Revolution in particular, IGN is where you probably have been the last few weeks.