It's hard to be charitable to a point that amounts to little more than hell-raising and doom saying. It's hard to listen to a counter-point where dismissive, bombastic vulgarity is employed for novelty, as opposed to an argument constructed with actual rigor.*
As someone too ignorant and too busy to actually weigh in on this poorly engineered controversy ("hay guyz, KoTaKu noticed, lulz!"), let me just say this: those of us in a position to learn about such things are poorly served by both the current state of discourse and such feeble attempts to elevate it. In the words of a good friend, "clean it up."
*Hopefully your stomach has turned at this point between the title and that last string of bombastic, dismissive clauses (I fucking tried to avoid vulgarity, ok?). The wiser-than-thou tone (or, I-thou-thee-thou-traitor tone of condescension) imprinted in such diction is as tiresome as it is noisome. This is how children argue on the internet. Those of us whose argumentative skills were forged in flame-wars don't really know any better (it's no excuse: I'm ashamed, aren't you?), it's entirely out of line for academics charged with advancing the field. It smacks of tardy-to-the-party posing as a member of the web-raised generation. It's the same brand of rampant anti-intellectualism found in a freshman English class where the writers resort to the semantic crutch of "post-post-" anything and a well-thumbed copy of The Bedford Glossary.**
**And yes, I've had mine since high school, and yes, proof-by-hypocrisy should be ignored. Stop reading this. I've paid in full with shame for these words.