If you seen his posts then you would know that he's unbiased, even back on TXB. Not only that, but Astro doesn't take the Microsoft's side as a fanboy, from what I see, I see him correcting people spreading FUD. He never down played the PS4, he just usually calls people on their bulls*** and gives facts about the X1.
Everyone has a bias, even saint Astro.
I got bias, you got bias, astro got bias, and all website journalists got bias..
I've talked to astro back in TXB-days a time or two..
A good writer on a websites needs to be able to have enough integrity to write about a product objectively without letting your own bias affect you, or admit that you sometimes might be wrong.
Astro don't have that - when he's wrong - he either ignores them, or write half a book until people get tired arguing, or say what he really meant were actually something else, marginally different than what he's just written 20 messages about.
Nothing wrong about that if you're a fan - but if you're writer getting paid to write about something - you need to be able to point out the positive aswell as the negative about something. Astro don't do that, in my humble biased opinion.
To me he allways points out bad stuff about Sony and it's products, if it's something about people enjoying the stuff they get on PS+ he's the first to point out you don't actually own the games, unless you keep paying.
Since PS3-launch he's alllways argued that free PS3-online didn't matter much, 360 online were much better, and besides that it were only a matter of time until people have to pay for online play also on PS3, it were impossible for Sony to keep providing free online. But it's still free,half a decade later - you'll never see he say he were wrong about that tough, he will probably claim he were actually right since it will cost money on PS4 tough, even tough we've been argiuing about PS3 all these years. :-/
Astro might be a good writer, for a website as long as it were a fansite, but I don't think his 'articles' would have been informative if it were going to be a website who wanted objective articles.