GameTrailers GRID Debacle

GameTrailers have posted a console comparison video comparing the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 versions of the racing game GRID. In these videos, they capture the game on both consoles and play them side by side and/or one after the other to really get a feel for the graphical differences on each console. This particular video labeled footage from the PS3 version as the 360 version and has caused quite a lot of controversy, as people are claiming that it's a conspiracy against the PS3 and that GameTrailers is showing too much bias towards the 360. The site has gone on to explain that this was a mistake and have pulled the video, but that hasn't stopped the fanboys bleating on about how crappy GameTrailers is, when we all know they've got it on their bookmarks toolbar and visit it everyday.

If you look at this video (with a propaganda-like name; GameTrailers LIES AGAIN!), you can see some of the footage from the pulled video for yourself along with the text commentary of an indignant fan. It's all really quite facepalm-worthy.

"GameTrailers try to fool fans once more…"

Why? Why would they do this? Unless you're claiming that GameTrailers is affiliated with Microsoft, which they're not. They would have nothing to gain from it. If you're claiming that they're mere fanboys, well I'd say that people who can create and run a profitable website such as GameTrailers are far beyond such pettiness. They aren't all 13 after all.

"They try to claim that the side with the fancier crashes is the 360 version, while the dull ones belong to the PS3. Most likely to cause fanboys to say the 360 has better physics."

"Fancy crash done on PS3, but claimed as 360. Slower straight on crashes, which do not have as much dynamic impact as a crash at an angle."

Ignoring how an impact could be anything other than dynamic, the creator of this video is claiming that GameTrailers posted videos of the PS3 version of GRID with really cool crashes and labeled it as the Xbox 360 version, whereas they labeled the more boring crashes as the PS3 version. It really doesn't make sense why they would do this on purpose. If they really wanted to give the PS3 a good kick-in, then all they had to was whack in some shoddy Xbox 360 crashes and label them as the PS3. But no, they haven't done that, probably because (other than the buttons in the bottom left corner of the screen) the two versions of the game are completely indistinguishable from the other, and they mistakenly edited the PS3 version together with itself because they couldn't tell which version was which.

Like most of the comparison videos GameTrailers do, this one is just as unnecessary, because all they show is that there isn't any difference in graphical power between the two consoles. Actually, maybe in this respect, they are completely necessary, and show up the fact that neither console is graphically superior. This causes the fanboys to blame something else when such a fact is displayed, or look way too hard for any sort of difference and claim that their console is better because of it. If their console has richer colours, they'll say so, but if the other console has them, they'll claim they're over-saturated and say they prefer their consoles duller colours. Swings and roundabouts. STFU.