Is The Mainstream Videogames Media Biased?

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the point of this editorial, I will take into account some recent events and how they were reported.
My favorite one is the premiere issue of "Incite" magazine. This publication should cover all systems except that the premiere issue had barely any coverage on Dreamcast games. Instant classics like "Soul Calibur", "Sonic Adventure", and "NFL 2K" of course were never reviewed. The game that was rated was Virtua Fighter 3. The only Dreamcast preview was a small section on Slave Zero. However what was featured very prominently was a large ranting editorial on the defective DC games and the fragility of GD-ROMS. Incite could have reviewed a few more of the 20+ titles out at the time or the plethora of DC peripherals that were available. But for some reason they chose not to.
Now many of you may say that the DC has a user base that is only a fraction of what the N64 or the Playstation has and therefore should receive a fractional proportion of the available coverage. Before you ...

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goes for Spyro the Dragon 2. My argument is that it is fair to compare a more powerful dreamcast game to a N64 or Playstation game. It would only be unfair if Sony charged $20 for Bandicoot while Sonic was still $50. Even though the DC is $200 and the Playstation is $100, this cost should only be taken into account for a hardware review. Here's an even more concrete analogy. Let's say BMW's cost the same as Toyota Corolla's. Would it be fair to say BMW's blow Toyota's out of the water and that you should buy a BMW? Yes! Because you are getting so much more for the same cost. Of course the lowered expectations bias does not stop at the media, game developers are to blame also. Look ...

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