Jinxstar - 157 days 17 hours ago

I dont even know how to reply... I want to though so if I don't even come close to answering your question let me know.

There is a very big summer lul currently in effect. Very few games being released and very little info coming out at least until comic con. Possibly Leipzig or TGS. So what else do sites have to do but ask questions, do comparisons and speculate in order to keep hits up and be able to feed themselves? They can make "Top 10 list of 'fill in the blank'" or say "Will sony survive the next year?" or "Will MS go broke from buying exclusive X,Y or Z" Thats all they can do right now and the way to get hits is to stir up the fanboys and flamewars. It works.

i.e. "Lets p!ss off the fanboys, get them to argue on our site and cause traffic"

How can you write a blog on a question? Well you can't and that really is not the point of these sites. It's to get people to click that link and say "ZOMG this author is a !diot. I need to explain to him why blah blah blah" then someone else adds their 2 cents to that... A site like IGN doesn't really care if their writter John Doe is hated by people. It causes traffic and they know it. The author may not even agree with what he writes. He's just doing his job and causing people to click that link...

I hope that answered what you were asking. You probably already knew all that but thats the reason...

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