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Sunday, April 24, 2005
Happiness and Sunshine | "During The Renaissance, when they wished to imitate Immortal Greece, they produced Raphael. Ingres wished to imitate Raphael, and became Ingres. Cezanne wished to imitate Poussin, and thus became Cezanne. Dali wanted to imitate Meissonier and THE RESULT WAS DALI. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."
- Salvador Dali
Interesting words from one of my favourite artists.
Those of you who read N-Sider at all may notice the latest edition of N-Banter, which involves myself and Jeff. It's really the first time that either of us have mentioned Matt (Matt Cassamasina of IGNcube) by name, when it comes to our fundamental disagreements with him.
I doubt that this will mean anything beyond what's in the article (afterall, even N-Sider staff publicly disagree within their articles), but still, it's noteable that we are challenging his view. The more I think about it, the more I think he'd be better running the IGNgear section or something.
It's not that I have anything against Matt. Far from it - he's actually very good to work with.
However, he simply doesn't understand the company that he is covering. I'm not saying he should agree with Nintendo, but how can you agree or disagree with something if you don't understand it? It seems to me that this is the key problem with Matt and because he runs IGNcube, it's a problem that permeates that entire site. Even the Nintendo Minute questions (which I referenced in the N-Banter article) are biased and aren't constructive.
There seems to be a competitive attitude over at that site. IGNcube seems to almost grudgingly cover Nintendo, as if they really want to be somewhere else the whole time. The fact that they make constant erroneous comparisions and get involved in things that really have nothing to do with Nintendo is part of that.
In truth, I think IGNcube still does some good stuff. That is, when Matt isn't involved. The other IGN channels (gaming channels) are all reasonably good - as good as any other site, really. So my qualms aren't really with IGN as an entire group, so much as with Matt himself.
Perhaps I am a bit spoiled, but I always like the idea that those covering Nintendo are the people who a) understand the company and b) are passionate about it. As I said, that doesn't mean they need to agree with Nintendo. I know I certainly don't agree with them all the time. But at least when I disagree, I have some understanding of their motivations and how they operate.
And why has IGN been linking to that stupid blog, with the guy who has recently "spilled" so-called exclusive inside information about Revolution?
The guy said that he'd have information by the end of the week. And yeah, he did. But what was it? It was all repeated information and speculation from everyone else. In other words, nothing new.
And what was with the whole touch screen speculation? Iwata has stated that Revolution won't contain a touch screen. Yet this guy also asserted that touch screens would somehow be important to both Microsoft and Sony in the future - even though there's no indication whatsoever that Xbox 360 or PS3 would contain such a feature.
I don't know. I don't like this period before E3, where the speculation runs rampant. People frequently get excited and let down. And then it often turns out that the real news it pretty different from the speculation itself.
Why are people not content to just say "I don't know"? Why are people so eager to fill in the gaps, no matter how erroneous or sloppy their answers are?
Maybe I'm unique in that I'm okay with "not knowing". Funny, this actually relates to my comments in OB's various religious threads too.
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