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@Bismarck All of us are Sony Ponies here, take it or leave it .
@nessisonett Don't give them any ideas.
@Bismarck Single format sites are great. While there are disadvantages, I find it gives us the freedom to discuss/cover things that would just feel out of place on a multiformat site.
People do seem to like it as the network is doing great!
Whether you choose a Single Platform or Multi-platform based website, each comes with its pros and cons. A dedicated single platform site will often bring you news, reviews etc that multi-platform sites may not cover or will get lost in the sea of information.
A lot of multi-platform sites do exist — IGN is perhaps one of the biggest known multi-platform sites — but you may not easily find a review or news about some small 'indie' game because its not going to get the 'clicks' that a big AAA game coming in a year or more generates.
Whatever decisions are made, you aren't going to escape the Toxic Fanboys — whether that's just the audience or even the articles that flame these. That's just the nature of the industry it seems. The difference is that a multi-platform site tends to bring more conflict because of opposing fanboys where as single platform sites tend to be much more heavily bias in both Journalistic and audience so can be much more 'free' to attack their competitors without much (if any) retaliation.
Point is — both have pros and cons and I think it's great that both exist. As a 'multi-platform' gamer, I still regularly visit both single platform & Multi-platform based gaming sites. In fact, both PushSquare and PureXbox are the 2 main sites I check multiple times a day for 'news' as its collected from the internet and put into a convenient place to check for the main
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