Erm, well, I'm late to the hot topic again, but I'm going to throw in my 200 Vietnamese currency anyway.
I'm not an XBox or Microsoft fan by any stretch (heck, I use a Mac. I want to avoid using Microsoft products as much as possible, but Mac OS is also better
). However, I'm siding with The Strangler.
We need people like him around here (this also applies to oOPuPPeTOo, Bond, BigJustinW and whoever else I'm missing). People here
do show a selective bias in the news they post. The thing is it's very hard to tell that it's going on. As a GameCube fan, I certainly didn't see it happening. It wasn't until The Strangler pointed it out that I realized he's right. Some of us do actually come in here just to read about XBox's failures. Did you notice how much traffic picked up around the Japanese launch?
You may think we're not that biased, but try visiting a place like XBoxAddict's GameCube vs. XBox debate forum. That particular forum is actually probably the most intelligent and least biased of XBA's forums, but the yellow journalism is still there. You won't find a topic about the Triforce arcade board or even a Shigeru Miyamoto interview in there. What you will see is topics about delayed games and Ken Lobb leaving Nintendo of America. I would bet that the XBox fans there don't realize that they're doing, but it's happening nonetheless.
So to all you people who are getting so worked up over The Strangler and people like him, take a long hard look at yourself first. GameTavern prides itself on being one of the most unbiased videogame forums on the internet, and the hard truth is that if we want to keep that up, we're going to need people whose opinions fundamentally differ. Far be it for me to second guess The Strangler, but I honestly don't think he has anything to apologize for.