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Game over for Joystiq's Robert Summa
Posted on September 8, 2006 1:38 PM
No more quarters from the Joystiqers for prolific poster and Destructoid fan Robert Summa. The knickers got seriously twisted at Joystiq over this post.
The hype machine cranked up to 11 on the news of Wii chip production for Nintendo's forthcoming must-have game console. Too far, apparently, as Joystiq moved into damage control mode...
we made a mistake in allowing this item to snowball into something more than a mere IBM-Nintendo PR announcement that production of chips is on schedule. Our apologies for allowing this one to get way, way out of hand.Um, ok. So what are they sorry about again?
Instead of defusing the prolonged PR tease that Nintendo has been escalating for the past year, we contributed to it. Instead of doing our readers a service, we added more confusion to the situation. The post was vague and left only room for disappointment which, inevitably, came at 12:01.Sure, fine, ok, you're forgiven, but may I ask what the hell the problem is here? Robert has an answer...
Joystiq knew the news (I told them) and they knew I was posting a note to let readers know to come back later. If they, at any point, thought I was sensationalizing things or was not in line with their “mission,� then they had an entire day to edit or take down the note.Robert got fired for hyping up a bit of non-news, that being IBM announcing they have been shipping the Broadway chip, a sleek custom job for the Wii, to Nintendo in significant volume since July. Wait a minute, it's wrong for reporters to hype a story?
Robert doesn't seem too broken up about the whole deal. But now someone at Joystiq has to explain to AOL why their top poster is blogging about gaming at Destructoid instead.
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