why is it in quotes? gamers do have enormous choice, developers have enormous choice. and competing store fronts also have the enormous choice of not sucking shit.
no, there is a difference in quoting him, which serves the purpose in telling the readers what he said about his position, dignified with (“) and surrounding his whole quote.
vs.
highlighting a single word of what was said as the focus with (‘) to imply the inverse or perversion of.
This is a really common headline thing, when the editor tries to put the important part of the quote into the headline while adding their own context around it. The actual quote is “Customers have enormous choice”. It’s basically the same line, PCGamer just swapped Customers with Gamers.
why is it in quotes? gamers do have enormous choice, developers have enormous choice. and competing store fronts also have the enormous choice of not sucking shit.
It’s in quotes because it’s a quote.
no, there is a difference in quoting him, which serves the purpose in telling the readers what he said about his position, dignified with (“) and surrounding his whole quote.
vs.
highlighting a single word of what was said as the focus with (‘) to imply the inverse or perversion of.
“i like playing with my new toy” he said
anon likes playing with his new ‘toy’.
This is a really common headline thing, when the editor tries to put the important part of the quote into the headline while adding their own context around it. The actual quote is “Customers have enormous choice”. It’s basically the same line, PCGamer just swapped Customers with Gamers.
I think they’re both ends of the argument. Yes, they quoted him directly, and yes, they used single quotations to emphasize the claim.
At least, that’s how I’m seeing it.