But journalists need to get their act together.
Chris Hecker, the developer behind 2007’s infamous “the Wii is sh*t” rant, has for the first time revealed the true extent of the impact his comments have had on his career.
In 2007, while at Maxis working on PC game Spore, Hecker took to the stage at the Game Developer Conference and called Nintendo’s motion sensing console “a piece of sh*t”, labelling it “two Gamecubes duct-taped together”.
His comments, predictably, hit the headlines. The following day Hecker apologised, saying, “I do not think the Wii is a piece of sh*t. Nintendo needs to be applauded for trying to interface on the controller front, the user.”