Topic: Daemon Hatfield bashes Wii in IGN Podcast

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/?p=18711

Didn't he write a number of Wii reviews when he was on the Nintendo team? Wouldn't those types of feelings about the Wii tend to make it difficult to write a fair review?

As his feudal rival McCoy might say: he's braindead, Jim.

Yeahhh, furthers the belief IGN is a joke.

All the upcoming Wii games are "dumb" and the console is "stupid"?

Yes, I'm glad this guy was reviewing Wii games.

I'll never understand why people feel this need to bash a game system. Seems pointless to me. They all have good and bad aspects, and that's generally true of every game system that comes out. But if the guy thinks the Wii is "stupid" then he has every right to do so.

Old news. Nobody likes Daemon Hatfield anyway.
EDIT: Corbie and I originally posted during the same minute!

He doesn't have the right to review Mario vs. Donkey Kong. You can tell that he didn't even play the game, anyway (e.g. he said that collecting gold stars is pointless and there's only around 40 new levels).

Yes, IGN was so dumb that they took him off the Nintendo team.

Huh?

What does that have to do with what I posted?

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He reviewed it officially and said that there are only 40 levels?? I know that IGN's collective journalistic integrity and intelligence is miniscule, but I'll still amazed that they'd publish an article with such a fundamental error. (I would check it out on their site to see just how bad it is, but I refuse to give them a bit of traffic).

In Pokemon Platinum's review it said the game only had three legendary Pokemon.

Now that they had to fix because all the Poke'fans went nuts.

You're calling IGN a joke, and they took off the guy that was dissing Wii about a month ago anyway. I don't see how your post makes any sense - are you saying a person can't express his dislike for another system when he's not even on its team?

The site is a joke.

There are several reasons, that have nothing to do with this Hatfield, that make many people share the same belief.

It doesn't matter if he's on the team or not.

Someone that thinks the console is "stupid" and all its games are "dumb" was being paid to review Wii games.

It's not that hard to understand.

I'd understand if he was still on the team, but he's not on the team anymore - though I admit he shouldn't have said it on a podcast.

You're missing the whole point.

It doesn't matter what he said, though what he said was "stupid" and "dumb".

He was openly bias and reviewing Wii games. There's no telling how many of his reviews were affected by this.

You honestly can't see the problem with paying a guy, who thinks the Wii is stupid and all of its games are dumb, to review Wii games?

I think as a video game journalist, you have to be careful what you say. You can think whatever you want to, but when you start spouting it out, especially if it conflicts with the very games and consoles you cover, it can seriously hurt your credibility.

@AlexSays: He's not reviewing Wii games anymore.

Holy bananas.

But he DID review Wii games.

You think all those anti-Wii thoughts started AFTER he was off the team?

I'm not sure what's so hard to grasp here.

Even Corbie gets it.

I wonder if he was born in a field of hats. That'd be cool.

I see what Corbie says. And no, I'm not saying those thoughts are recent - but does that mean he expressed them openly during his Nintendo job? How does IGN know what's going on his brain? Either:

1) They found out he hated the Wii and thus took him off the Nintendo team, or
2) He asked to be taken off for the reasons he stated in the podcast.

I don't see how it's IGN's fault.

Nobody ever said it was!

Pixel, you're killin' me.