I've been hearing more an more latley that Destructoid is an "anit-Wii" website. It's one thing when it's coming from someone who's just feeling defensive in the moment (I know I get that way sometimes) because the Wii is being bashed in the comments section of one of our posts, but it's another thing when it's other websites are saying in their posts that "Destructoid hates the Wii" and what not. That gets me thinking that we here at the site may be coming off wrong.

If Destructoid is about one thing, it's about saying what you mean. Our editors aren't afraid of being offensive, and we tend to value constructive (and hopefully funny) critisism a whole lot around here. There is so much PR bullshit in gaming journalism, and so many game journalists who's checks depend on advertising from game publishers, that it's hard to know if what you're reading about a game is really what the writer truly believes. One of the things I always loved about Destructoid is that the cultural here is to do the opposite of that kind of crap as much as we can. If anything, we make a point of telling you exactly what we really think, to the point where we can even be obnoxious.

But do we seem biased? If so, I think that's a problem.

The success of the Wii as a console has been really upsetting for a lot of people. It symbolizes a philosophy about videogames that makes many hardcore gamers feel alienated. Wii Sports is not the direction that a lot of people want games to head in, yet it is the "most owned" game on the planet right now. It's fine for people to be upset about that one game's success, or the Wii's lack of true HD and its "last gen" horsepower, but to hate every game on Wii just because of stuff like that would just be stupid.

Is that how we come off to you? Do you think that we here at Destructoid have jumped on the anti-Wii band wagon? Do you think we make a point to bash the console just to look cool and/or to make ourselves look hardcore?

I've said a million times that a true hardcore gamer likes every genre of game, and judges a game only by its level of quality, not how "hardcore" a game is. In that way, Chad Concelmo is more hardcore than I'll ever be, because he loves every kind of game ever made. Hell, he pretty much love every game ever made. The man is incredible.

So if you think Destructoid iscoming off like we have an anti-Wii agenda, and less like we all want to be Chad Concelmo when we grow up, please let us know about it. I can't speak for everyone here, but I for one do not want us to come off that way.