The majority of IGN's DS coverage has been dead-neutral. People simply pick out specific instances of perceived bias, build them into a straw man, and ignore the similar practices in other sections of the site, and throughout the gaming media at large.

Examples in the case of the DS include people over-reacting over Juan's mailbag, and the subsequent rebuttal. Others pick at the first-hand accounts from writers and editors based on their own personal experiences, over things like mentioning the PSP as a competitor, and running PSP features on the PSP channel shortly after the DS launch. None demonstrate any specific notable bias on the part of IGN employees.

Nintendo fans claim that IGN is blatantly biased against Nintendo. Sony fans claim IGN is blatantly biased against Sony. Microsoft fans claim IGN is blatantly biased against Microsoft. They all need to shut up, partake of a broader range of journalism before treating their selective evidence as proof of bias, and learn to read the discourse, not the semantics.

I've brought this up before, and I'll bring it up again: A few times on ZU people have brought up IGN apparently giving games unreasonably low scores, being biased against Nintendo. Most recently it came out with Baten Kaitos, claiming their review was low due to bias. Lo and behold, IGN's rating of 88% was one of the highest scores the game would receive from cross-platform review sources, and 6% above the average.

Otherwise, the DS was bound to sell more, if not by popularity, than by simple availability.

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