Quote Originally Posted by comma
Wow, what are you talking about? They reported on the news, and then they had someone contribute an opinion that it's solving the wrong problem, and another person contributed an opinion that Nintendo really knows their demographic. You're scraping the bottom of the barrel of things to complain about media sites doing.
The only person who isn't pointing out the ridiculousness that article is you. Even if it rested on firmer grounds, I don't think dissecting marketing and corporate messaging is a productive exercise of a credible journalist.

Polygon has quite the track record for thinly-veiled attempts at flamebaiting, as do its founders. Stuff like this is why people put quotation marks around video game "journalism" and it's probably a big reason why the medium still isn't widely appreciated as a meaningful art form.