This is a pretty garbage review and the majority of comments think so too.

This wasn’t even slightly poignant, it was just really terrible writing with a complete lack of knowing your audience. It essentially assumes that you’re a bad person for wanting to get a console during a time of crisis and almost even implies that people aren’t fighting for their lives in this country when COVID…

...And incredibly inappropriate in a console review. There are better venues for that. If his goal is to scare people off purchasing a product, which in turn might raise eyebrows from advertisers, go on.  Real smart Kotaku!

Somewhere in this article there was a genuine review of the Playstation 5. It was of course buried between the multiple ‘I feel depressed so all of you need to feel depressed too!’ and ‘You need to feel bad about buying entertainment products’ comments the author made.

I don’t mind Kotaku writing about that sort of thing - at all! - I just find it a little weird as the summation of the entire review; it’s like the last few paragraphs basically read ‘hey, you know the entire rest of this article? None of it really matters, because everything’s trivial right now, anyway; in fact,…

But that is still rather arrogant in some ways and also hypocritical. Because why would you assume people can’t decide for themselves whether they want and/or can afford a new system based on your review of it? Also, you know, there are always unemployed people who like to have a new console and can’t buy it.

Absurd addition to this review.  Are we going to mention ongoing tragedies in every review of luxury items and consumer products?  "Here's an RTX 3080, but let's reflect on the pandemic that has killed 240k Americans.  You probably should feel bad for buying this"

Yep, what I want to read about in my reviews of products is the state of the world and politics.  BEST part of the review.

I am brazilian. Please do not EVER call me a Latinx. “Latino” is already bad enough, since it is an incredibly superficial term that does no justice to the cornucopia of non anglo-saxon cultures that exist in America (not talking about the US). “Latinx” is just a term created by anglo-saxons that sounds ridiculous in…

White view of latinos. They’re all Mexicans.

Remember, as long as you can find ONE Hispanic person who isn’t bothered by this, it instantly and permanently invalidate all other criticism of it!

One of my very good friends who happens to be a super gay liberal once told me I have the fashion sense of a middle aged dad trying to impress his ex-wife’s new husband. Does that count?

Fun fact about Jerykk, he likes to complain about people making murals honoring an unarmed man who was killed by police for having a fake $20 bill because he had a criminal history, cares more about abusers than their victims because “what about their livelihood”, and thinks toxic work environments can be magically…

“Just as kneeling during the national anthem is somehow an insult to not only the flag, but also to the military, the police and also to first responders.”

*System scans and identifies the edge of a lift bridge:

Wow.

...the Nvidia Shield service is basically a virtual pc somewhere running the games you already bought on Steam, Uplay, EGS, Blizzard Launcher etc. by accessing these platforms through your account.

It’s really just expanded access to things you’ve already paid for - on THEIR (Acitblizz’) proprietary library.

Imagin…

My buddy who worked at subway corporate told me that ALL the meats are turkey, with different flavoring and coloring added. I believe him.

Mediocre bread that is freshly baked in store! Hence the utterly nauseating scent of mediocre bread baking that pervades every Subway I’ve ever set foot inside.

Your friend was right about the meats. They are all turkey based. The ham, salami, bologna, etc. All turkey.

He has zero piratical knowledge.