But its the same thing. His arguments imply that "Sony's tactics" are unfair and are always put under better light, whereas the same is perceived bad when MS does it. His examples are there to support that XBOX should have been presented much better than what the media present currently and part of its market underperformance is thanks to the false popular belief.
I feel it's not so much bias, but more the lack of positive news for the XBox One recently. I mean, social media and gaming forums are all about Nioh, Nier Automata, Horizon and Zelda in the past few months. Hard to blame anyone but Microsoft themselves, to be honest. I mean, they did release Halo Wars 2, but yeah, we all know how that went, was never going to be big in the first place.
Agreed. But the recent media blitz would have you believe they are the only games that people want/or are playing. The dearth of media coverage on ghost recon made me think it was DOA. Yet, I would not be surprised to see it sell more than likely all of MS 1P sales put together this year.
It seems to me we have had this exact same thread back in 2013/2014. To me the media bias against MS and specifically the Xbox one really occurred back in 2013/14. I think the positive changes implemented by Phil Spencer since taking over Xbox have helped quite a bit to change the media's overall tone when it comes to the Xbox one.
I definitely agree with the individual format. But enevitably I do think LCD buyers do end up making a majority of the purchases. When we see BF sales or holiday console sales, they are moving units over a million for about 2 months straight price seems to be a big factor here. But I do agree that core gamers do have a hand in driving others for purchasing decisions. People want to know "what game should I get" and core gamers will go a long way in trying to help people figure that out.
That's a common held belief. I'd love to know if anyone's ever actually researched this. Marketing typically targets one's audience, rather than that audience's chief influencers. Is it really more efficient and effective to sell to a smaller group knowing they're influence everyone else? Let's say your console is hardcore and family friendly. Does showing the family-friendly side decrease your sales because the hard-core are turned off, and they discourage everyone they know? Or will people more realistically be influenced by a range of factors including advertisements directed at them?
Lol, my bad. I meant it in a literal word by word meaning and not contextual. The phrase there is Anti-MS bias, can be rephrased as, does there exist Anti-MS bias in media; mathematically to prove this statement I would only need to find 1 such article to prove it exists. If the statement is "for all gaming media, there exists anti-ms bias", then clearly this is false, we only need to find 1 entry that is not.
It largely one guy screwing for attention
