District 4 Junction: Why I didnt report on The PlayStation 4 Pro and why this move is costly for Sony (and what it means for this site!)

If you heard my live show i mentioned this (paraphrased from the live show with some added thoughts):

The reasons why the PS4 Pro was made is that the Game Journalists now have more influence on the Video Game Industry (the corporations, studios, and certain entertainment Youtube Gaming Celebrities) than the video game fans and hobbyists themselves… The same journalists have been going after Sony since the PlayStation 4 was even announced. First off, you have to realize that some journalists were in the literal pockets of Sony’s competitor in the Video Game Space. Also notice that once the announcement for the how the disks were going to be handled for the Xbox 1 was announced, who was the journalist(s) promoting such things. Also note how the look of the Spike TV presentation of both the PlayStation 4 reveal, from the Xbox 1 reveal. These same journalists still have it in for the Japanese gaming and animation places.

Now its two years later, and the Journalists now call the shots to protect interests that goes against everything the industry stands for (or should stand for), and it has effected the look and the feel of these games. So much so that the fanbases of the gaming industry are suffering for identity crises based on the issues of people who never had the talent, and if they even had the talent – the time or the cultural cache to have any sort of positive impact in the industry. Its one of the reasons why there has been such a push for e-gaming as a whole, and the move away from the major franchises. These Journalists want recreate the same sort of movement that Peggy Charren and many others did when the V-Chip and The E/I law was passed for Video Games. We have already seen it for animation in the US, as there isnt any major successful TV animated series outside of Spongebob, Family Guy, American Dad and Dragon Ball Z – all at least 10 to 30 years old with only Rick and Morty bucking this trend. There is even a question in the animation world, is any of it worth it after the issues with Sausage Party, and the disappointing sales Kubo that animation that talks about life – or even about issues between men and women and how they interact with each other even matter any more… Unless they add the new “culture” of “genderplay” and “Intersectonality Theory”

And they wish to bring the same rules of E/I – and the V-Chip – to Video Games on a massive scale, in order to protect emotions that have never been recognized within themselfs, anger that has been fully misplaced on the innocent among us, and a world view lead by Billionaires with their powerful lobbies and NGO’s on each side of the argument, who want nothing more than the control of human spirit, and just of most import his/her freedom to choose and to accept the consequences of these choices.

I will mention more about this on the Saturday Show. But lets make this clear.

I feel as though that the Journalists now are rumor mongers. And basically they have no choice because they are no longer in the business of information and accurate data, they are in the business of making money out of outrage and creating a atmosphere of delusion and shame towards there supposed audience.

The editorial board of these Major Gaming Websites even if they didn’t care about this business anymore (and they don’t) have no reason to lie about what they do want. The reason why I didn’t post anything since the “rumor” came out was simple – there were more important stories to tell, but at the time – I didn’t know where to go, or who to turn to. I stuck to just posting certain other things from Duelshockers and Gematsu – which IMO – despite both going to the rumor mill on this issue – did well in other news areas, and has been my go to whenever i needed Gaming Info etc.

However, unless there is a massive sea change in American culture right quick, things are going to worse and autocratic  quickly. Journalism in this country is owned by many interests – and the biggest of these interests are the billionaires that now have gain political and cultural cache since the Great Recession of 2008. This Cache is so great that it does use aspects of these many left wing and right wing conspiracy theory, as a way to blind the populace to the truth of the matter.

We now know the effect these Many Video Game Editors, and by extension, the corporate hands from the mainstream media, and other NGOs and Think Tanks have. These sites – cost Sony BILLIONS in promoting the rumor – from Kotaku to the Wall Street Journal. Remember – the information came from Sources that were talking up the specs of the PS4 Pro when the truth was much more mundane.

Getting the information is fine. Getting the wrong information hurts the reader, giving false information is tantamount to criminality.

The fact of the matter is that the Journalism business has become a tabloid rag for both sides (or all sides) of the argument. The muckrakers of the past are called names and arrested and die in paupers graves. The actual Journalists who covered the great stories have retired, about to retire, are dead or have been ostracized for telling the truth even when it hurts.

I will now tell you the sad truth of this. Journalism no longer (outside of certain organizations or certain people on left or right) serves the populace at large. Its the reason for the rise of these “NewsTainment” long form miniseries outside of the preview of  the News Organizations. The news organizations basically live on adverting and they are DYING. The only way the truth of these two years of the video game industry and the cyber culture war can truly come out – is very sadly for somebody who is a billionaire with a intention for revenge against his other billionaire rival to make a long form miniseries to tell the information the news media missed and the connection to that rival.

This is the sad state of our Journalism and our culture today. Sadly we are now puppets now being played with by people who we don’t know, who care not a wit of our country or its people of all races, and would rather create a slavish, gentrified, passive aggressive individual who knows nothing about the world unless the media, already hating his/her guts tells him so.

I know that unless time is not taken care of, and the editors of these gaming sites are not called to account – and many if not all of the YouTube video game streamers and “entertainers”  are not shown for there collision with these groups and their money structures, the Video Game industry will suffer a dislocation worse than 1983, and that’s when things will really hit the fan and folks don’t understand how really bad the rest of the entertainment industry is hurting.

If the editors think (and they do talk to each other, the chats prove this) that retrofitting a industry to a gentrification project is going to work, you haven’t seen whats going on in San Fran. That city, next time the economic dislocation hits (and it WILL), the city and all of the other gentrified areas of the country will be in flames, if not literally, rent wise. Think of it in video game terms.

the 1983 crash will be a blip.

This time, it would not be the people buying games.

Nor the people making the consoles.

Nor the people who even make the games.

It would be those who were supposed to defend the industry from its detractors, and promote the auteurs changing the history of human experience.

Instead they are promoting the very sad look of the Manic Pixie Girl, and her promises of forever flowers, and her unmitigated joy.

All they are? Nothing more than the same honey pots bringing the world down to the level of the beast, the ones who will destroy everything we hold dear and enjoy.

The PlayStation 4 Pro isn’t a problem.

It may be just an step that may have never been needed…

What is needed is the truth from those that are given the keys to care…

And the lies about those these journalists that protect there friends over its own audience to die.