What makes you think gameindustrybiz is unreliable especially to the tier of kotaku? I've only seen them be pretty objective in their reporting and rarely expressing a tone outside of neutral. Especially since alot of their staff are industry insiders.
Ahh yeah i see how my wording of that makes it sound like Suzuki said that, the importance of commas strikes again.
I hope no one here expected the game to debut ahead of Death Stranding and Pokemon, even if they are a couple weeks old. That’s just an impossible standard, especially with the middling reviews Shenmue 3 is receiving.
agreed will be no where near that but i would expect it to outsell a game thats been out 2 months plus
A neutral tone does not make a neutral publication, so to speak. Over the last couple of years gameindustry.biz has branched out into more fluff pieces, trying to put a human face on the UK games industry. But that human interest perspective comes at the price of objectivity. All that commentary around the weekly sales charts is now treated as just another opportunity at editorialising. When I go to gameindustry.biz lately it's quite common to see some hot take defending why a favoured game isn't selling better or conversely downplaying the relative success of other games.
I meant more like, what specific cases do they do that to, looking at their front page right now for example I'm seeing loads of objective statements backed up by cited and highly specific statistics, the only remotely editorialized article was about how the stadia isnt being well received and even that is just compiling lots of critical consensus from multiple publications and giving more or less a tl;dr of the situation.
What you need to understand is that they all make stuff up, actual research is beyond the means of the average gaming website these days. Even citations don't count for much, when they all just cite each without doing any original reporting of their own.
So you don't have any actual examples then? I really dont get what you were trying to prove by slandering these guys for no real reason?
It's not slander to point out that all journalists are biased. What they say is only ever a matter of opinion, at best. Gameindustry.biz didn't collect this data themselves, they found the information elsewhere and won't ever post the hard numbers. To that end, you chose to see something negative in all this and I honestly disagree. This a decent performance for Shenmue 3 in the UK, it was never going to set the charts on fire, it's not that sort of game. Yet by holding its own Shenmue 3 can do good steady business across the entire Christmas season. That more the anything will ensure the creation of Shenmue 4.
That's the spirit! I will too
Well, the UK is one of the bigger markets for Shenmue but the US, Japan and hopefully China matter a lot more.
