Gotta love N-Europe's complete bias...

[Dilli Gee]

Goldeneye on Xbox Live Arcade, for its 10th Anniversary, with added online multiplayer mode.

Microsoft wanted it. Rare were making it. MGM endorsed it. THQ wanted to release it. Nintendo would have profited too, if they consented to the project. The deal would also have allowed for Goldeneye Online on the Wii's Virtual Console, as well as every other Rare game before the Rare takeover - Banjo and Perfect Dark included.

But what does Nintendo do? They refuse. Meaning we'll probably never see a re-release of Goldeneye for years now.

And trust N-Europe to completely avoid reporting on this debacle.

[gaggle64]

Was that story ever confirmed, or just a rumour?

[Hellfire]

Great thread will read again. Because this one will be locked.

[Fresh]

N-Europe, a Nintendo dominated fansite, bais towards Nintendo. My god, call the police!

[The fish]

It was all a rumor. Oh, and listen to the latest podcast.

[Dante]

A rumour and there is another topic about this in the wii channels board.

[Cube]

http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11407

n this edition we discuss the GoldenEye rumours

[DCK]

I love your complete bias too, Dilli Gee.

N-Europe did report on this, actually, but the news is two weeks old. I know you like to find 'evidence' for us being fanboys, but it only shows how much you are one yourself. You're in the same category as Choze as far as I'm concerned.

[Dyson]

Fail, Dilli, fail.

[c0Zm1c]

The Wii Is Not Enough (http://www.n-europe.com/news.php?nid=11382)

[Tellyn]

Excuse me? I reported on the story two weeks ago and me, ShadowV7 and Franklin discussed it in the podcast.

[ShadowV7]

Your a pleb. And you got immensly owned and we are a Nintendo site afterall. Go cry to Microsoft or something to make you feel better :heh:

[Dilli Gee]

Fair dos, I'm an over-reacting ass.

Rumoured screen:

http://kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/01/goldeneyescreen.jpg

Leaked footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXWls4S_qu8

[AshMat]

It's a complete disgrace, a nintendo site being biased towards nintendo.
RING THE BELLS, ALERT THE CHURCH ELDERS!

[ShadowV7]

I've already phoned the church saying i've found Satan.

[Dilli Gee]

It's a complete disgrace, a nintendo site being biased towards nintendo.
Did I say that was the issue?

My problem is comments like "stay tuned to N-Europe for the latest on this web of rights, secrets, and LIES" yet not following up on it, which I assumed is so not to actually show Nintendo in the correct light.

[ShadowV7]

Yea but we all know it was Nintendos doing and they wanted it to be original. We will follow up on it when there's more on it, but there hasn't been. And stop trying to argue against us, you didn't read the article or knew it existed and now your using text from the article to prove your point.

Just stop, really...

[Dilli Gee]

I'll stop bitching now.

It's not that I'm ungrateful for the amount of work and effort the writers/moderators put into the site and its forum, but N-Europe is becoming more-and-more just an extension of Nintendo's PR arm.

Always positive, with a smile on its face. Failing to address the fundamental flaws of the Wii, such as the uninspired online play, or the severe lack of quality, original titles.

Just my personal opinion. I knew posting this thread I would be immediately black-listed, so the fact I posted it anyway should hopefully mean something.

We will follow up on it when there's more on it, but there hasn't been.
Aside from leaked photos, leaked video and an official statement by Microsoft, as well as thousands of fans signing petitions for Nintendo to reconsider, nope. No new developments.

[ShadowV7]

I'll stop bitching now.

It's not that I'm ungrateful for the amount of work and effort the writers/moderators put into the site and its forum, but N-Europe is becoming more-and-more just an extension of Nintendo's PR arm.

Always positive, with a smile on its face. Failing to address the fundamental flaws of the Wii, such as the uninspired online play, or the severe lack of quality, original titles.

Just my personal opinion. I knew posting this thread I would be immediately black-listed, so the fact I posted it anyway should hopefully mean something.

Do you listen to the podcasts? We're aware off the flaws and we talk and moan about it like the next guy. We're hardly that bias. For instance the podcasts that i've been in, a couple of times we've moaned at the lack of Hard Drive and Voice Chat and stress how much we want it. And as for lack of decent 3rd party titles, we're all aware of it and they're needs to be more quality ones, especially with the Wii flopping in Japan just now. It's in the podcasts we go a little bit more in depth with the current situations.

Aside from leaked photos, leaked video and an official statement by Microsoft, as well as thousands of fans signing petitions for Nintendo to reconsider, nope. No new developments.

There's loads of petitions on the interweb, we don't post them all. Did the statement really say anything all the new that we just had to report? We know who the problem is. And it begins with N.

[Tellyn]

I highlighted the fact that it may be Nintendo's doing in my post. I'm also not going to follow up on a rumour with another rumour when it's effectively just another source with the same story, except focussing more on the fact that it's Nintendo's doing.

And why would we criticise Nintendo?

[Dante]

Its a rumour and not fact. :rolleyes:

Also we have a topic about this in wii channels board.

[Tellyn]

Do you listen to the podcasts? We're aware off the flaws and we talk and moan about it like the next guy. We're hardly that bias. For instance that podcasts tha i've been in, a couple of times we've moaned at the lack of Hard Drive and Voice Chat. And as for lack of decent 3rd party titles, we're all aware of it and they're needs to be more quality ones, especially with the Wii flopping in Japan just now.

Ditto. Take some time to read our articles and listen to the podcasts before you want to rant about how we run this place.

[Dilli Gee]

And why would we criticise Nintendo?
From my understand this was a site that reported all aspects Nintendo. Both the positive and the negative.

If it was made with the intention of spinning for Nintendo, then apologies.

[ShadowV7]

Your understanding is correct. When there's negative things to report, we'll report it since we are, afterall all, a Nintendo site.

[Tellyn]

Please. We don't 'spin' stories. Do you actually read them? We usually include negative aspects too if there are any to include. In GoldenEye's case there were. And that screenshot was 'leaked', so anyone could have mocked it up.

[seamus_aran]

I'll say this;

I've been with n-europe/n64/cube/revo europe since the early days. They have always been a great site that has only recently hit harder times. One of the few that have survived so long.

But complaining of Nintendo bias is retarded. This is a Nintendo site after all. We wouldn't come here to read "Wii's nice, but 360 is better" (for the record, a gaming PC is such a better investment at the moment. All those great games onthe 360 and more).

Their journalistic skills (your comparison to Nintendo PR), while valid commentry, isn't justified. This isn't a professional gaming site. They may sound like NOM on occasion, but by god they don't get paid the same kind of sallary. And as long as the facts are delivered, this can only be a niggle to the readers, rather than a viable problem.

[Dante]

Aside from leaked photos, leaked video and an official statement by Microsoft, as well as thousands of fans signing petitions for Nintendo to reconsider, nope.

All the pics and the video is fake.

[Hero-of-Time]

The fact is the staff reported it, they discussed it in the podcast AND there is a topic in the Wii Channels board.

Locked.

[Mokong X-C]

I just want to add that i find the idea that we don't talk about Nintendo short comings a bit of an odd thing to be accused of.

In nearly every edition of the N.E.S Podcast we have voiced our disappointment with Nintendo on various choices they have made. I'm pretty sure we've had a few feature articles that have touched on similar problems... our new "1p vs 2p" feature for a recent example.

Of course as a Nintendo fansite we are going to be a bit bias towards Nintendo, but that doesn't mean we are blind to things they do that we consider "mistakes"... in fact I think we moan about them more because we are Nintendo fans.

And as already said we did report the GoldenEye rumor when it first broke, and we discussed it in the podcast.