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Polygon’s Manipulative Headline and Underhanded Edit

The Polygon team think very little of their readers’ intelligence:

X post by Saved You A Click Video Games @SYACVG https://x.com/SYACVG/status/2057502412286333246 Board, an interactive tablet built for board games, has permanently lowered its price from $700 to $400. This is not a rival console, be fr rn. (screenshot of a Polygon article with the headline: As Nintendo makes Switch 2 more expensive, a rival console actually just slashed its price 40%)

I’m gonna save you another click too. Not only did Polygon never imply or categorize Board’s original $700 price tag as “greedy”, but they even slyly went back to edit their 5-month old report (image 1 below, via Internet Archive) to show the new lowered price (img 2; URL in alt text). Did Polygon think no one would notice that they carried water for the PR agency representing Board?

Screenshot of the original Polygon report of the Board tablet: “What $700 buys you with Board — now and in the future” via Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20260314070225/https://www.polygon.com/board-game-console-review/
Screenshot of the original Polygon report of the Board tablet: “What $399 buys you with Board — now and in the future” https://www.polygon.com/board-game-console-review/

Polygon should just shed all pretense of “journalism”.

[Originally posted on 2026-05-21 Pacific Time]

[Update on 2026-06-06] A certified bunch of herbs:

Screenshot of a Polygon article webpage: This is all Nintendo's fault Nintendo Direct was a stroke of genius, but it doomed us to our current games PR hellscape [Photo of Shigeru Miyamoto]