EDIT: This was about Nintendo Soup . Com but the website has been fortunately banned from era in the course of this thread, hence the "******" in the post.
I've seen a recurring trend over the last few months/a year that the website started gaining a lot of attention with threads being made relaying their news. I'd like to point out how it's currently probably the worst and most fake news-filled video game news website you could possibly inform yourself on.
On top of having generally no filter at all, using often twitter reactions to make generalizing articles or just any fan youtube videos (see this for instance), they also show a tendency of making huge leaps and using japanese sources without understanding a word of the language. A few examples:
This thread was made based on one of their article pointing out how one (1) reddit user managed to get a cancellation of their digital preorder of Pokémon SwSh. This article however didn't mention the important fact that anyone can get a digital preorder cancelled once for any motive, as per a global Nintendo policy. This is plain controvery stirring over misinformation.
This article, saved through Webarchive, mentionned how Gou (upcoming co-protagonist of the Pokémon anime) was announced as non-binary in a japanese article. There was never any mention of that in said article, only that he was meant to look like an androgenous pretty boy. Once the fake news was spread long and large and being called out, they amended the article saying that they were mistaken due to "the limited japanese language" which not only is kinda racist, is also proof that they don't know shit about the language.
Here they were responsible for kicking the misinformation about Nintendo apparently asking fans for what they fant relating to the future of Mother through a survey, were the only thing they actually did was asking fans of the series to write out and submit their favorite things from each of the Mother games, as well as general information about the order they played the games in and such. Once again a case of not knowing shit about what you're writing about.
On other generally shitty things, here they are exposing someone's public info in an article reporting the fake Grinch leak, which is definitely what you'd expect of a news website obviously
The further you dig, the more misinformation, assumptions and fake news you find. I highly recommend you to double check the source and original article when you find an article from Nintendosoup and, preferably, inform yourself on other websites. Here's a couple I'd personally recommend instead:
https://gematsu.com -> useful for all sorts of news, extremely up to date and generally has what you're looking for unless it's very specific. Probably my favourite game news website, highly recommended.
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/ -> if you're looking for Nintendo-only websites, I also would recommend that one. It's prioritizing quality over quantity and while it doesn't have all the very small and generally not important news, everything that matters get reported without bullshit.
http://www.nintendolife.com -> to complete the NWR coverage, if you want a broader look but still focus on Nintendo websites, this one is good too and generally doesn't make mistakes when they report stuff.
I've seen a recurring trend over the last few months/a year that the website started gaining a lot of attention with threads being made relaying their news. I'd like to point out how it's currently probably the worst and most fake news-filled video game news website you could possibly inform yourself on.
On top of having generally no filter at all, using often twitter reactions to make generalizing articles or just any fan youtube videos (see this for instance), they also show a tendency of making huge leaps and using japanese sources without understanding a word of the language. A few examples:
This thread was made based on one of their article pointing out how one (1) reddit user managed to get a cancellation of their digital preorder of Pokémon SwSh. This article however didn't mention the important fact that anyone can get a digital preorder cancelled once for any motive, as per a global Nintendo policy. This is plain controvery stirring over misinformation.
http://web.archive.org/web/20191109000924/https:///gou-is-non-binary-in-the-upcoming-pokemon-anime/
This article, saved through Webarchive, mentionned how Gou (upcoming co-protagonist of the Pokémon anime) was announced as non-binary in a japanese article. There was never any mention of that in said article, only that he was meant to look like an androgenous pretty boy. Once the fake news was spread long and large and being called out, they amended the article saying that they were mistaken due to "the limited japanese language" which not only is kinda racist, is also proof that they don't know shit about the language.
Here they were responsible for kicking the misinformation about Nintendo apparently asking fans for what they fant relating to the future of Mother through a survey, were the only thing they actually did was asking fans of the series to write out and submit their favorite things from each of the Mother games, as well as general information about the order they played the games in and such. Once again a case of not knowing shit about what you're writing about.
On other generally shitty things, here they are exposing someone's public info in an article reporting the fake Grinch leak, which is definitely what you'd expect of a news website obviously
https:///more-evidence-the-super-smash-bros-ultimate-character-leaks-are-real-have-surfaced/
The further you dig, the more misinformation, assumptions and fake news you find. I highly recommend you to double check the source and original article when you find an article from Nintendosoup and, preferably, inform yourself on other websites. Here's a couple I'd personally recommend instead:
https://gematsu.com -> useful for all sorts of news, extremely up to date and generally has what you're looking for unless it's very specific. Probably my favourite game news website, highly recommended.
https://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/ -> if you're looking for Nintendo-only websites, I also would recommend that one. It's prioritizing quality over quantity and while it doesn't have all the very small and generally not important news, everything that matters get reported without bullshit.
http://www.nintendolife.com -> to complete the NWR coverage, if you want a broader look but still focus on Nintendo websites, this one is good too and generally doesn't make mistakes when they report stuff.
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