Yeah, doesn't benefit the kid any. 

Movie day

Wed, March 21 2007 - 11:19 AM

by: Gabe

We got a huge delivery last week from Nintendo for Child’s Play. Kiko snapped some pictures once we had everything unboxed.

We’ll be sending these out to the hospitals right away.

Now it should be pointed out that these games and systems were not given to Child's Play but were sold at cost ... From what I understand it was much lower than a retailer can buy them at.

I am not bashing the handicapped children. If you think I was, you should re-read what I say.

Also, I dont know how many paralized people you know, but alot of them have rather weak arm abilities. Flinging the Wiimote/nunchuck around would be very difficult. For some of the most paralized people in the world. They use a... get this. a JOYSTICK. to controll their wheel-chair.  

HappySqurriel - ever heard of tax deductable? Nintendo got paid. In FULL for those.  Putting someone in a game... that costs you money. Do you think they can file on their tax report. "spent 2,000$ modeling boy and creating thing to do." Would be tax deductable?

Ever wonder why rich people donate around 100-500,000$/year to charaties? Because that is all they have to pay in taxes. So they give things they can get cheap. (say for nintendo a 50$DS) and then write the other 80$ off of their taxes. Money is key, money is god. Welcome to the a corperate world.

There is a company 10 miles down the road that is a nasty polluter, and their known for it. What do they do? They donate a million dollars every year to 'beautifying' the city. Tax deductable of cource. Gives them a good rep. Gave a million dollars to help repair the local area.

They gave nothing. They took the money from uncle-sam, and gave it to local-sam. It is PR. 

Wow, you demonstrate so little understanding it is unreal ...

Unless you're breaking the law (or know of magical tax loopholes) you rarely end up with more money by giving to a charity than you started with. Essentially you don't pay taxes on your donation so if you donate $1 you don't pay the $0.20 in taxes on that $1. The reason companies do this is because it is good PR.

I could ask you which does more good a easter-egg in a videogame or thousands of toys being donated to sick children at hospitals but it really doesn't matter. The point of my post was to demonstrate how ignorant you are towards the actions of companies like Nintendo and how much charity they really do. You ask what Nintendo does for paralized children without knowing that they just recently helped a lot of sick children ... Next thing you'll do is ask what Microsoft has done about disease around the world (because of Folding@home) without realizing that the Gates foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Aids this year.

How dare Sony milk that kid's tragedy to shill a product?  Such transparency.

The best charity is en masse and realtively anonymous. 

HappySqurriel : The Melinda Gates fundation is NOT MS. So no, MS has done nothing to help anyone.

MS gives money to Melinda gates fundation as a mean to escape taxes. There's a reason the fundation is owned by Gates' wife and not Gates himself. Then, Melinda Gates fundation does its work of PR for Gates name, hiding the bad they do at the same time, which is far worse than the good. Africa is a pretty telling example.

It works pretty well, but it worked for the Robber Barons too, so "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose". 

He can hold the nunchuk in his prosthetic arm, and manipulate the joystick and two buttons with it as well. So while it doesn't work with a normal controller, he can play any Wii game quite well.

In another story, I remember seeing a modded 360 controller, made to be played entirely with one hand. Some tech wiz made it for another Iraq war vet with only one arm *goes to hunt down a picture of it* 

Here it is!

The analogue on the bottom is meant to be rested on your knee (or a table) so that you can move the controller around to use it.  

 ANYWAYS... Yes, it was very nice of Insomnia. However, as the article stated, a series of game companies came forward to help. Insomnia just had the best bid put together.

It's Insomniac, not Sony.  They are independant.   Similar to Bioware where a lot of their games are published by Microsoft but they are now producing a PS3 game of some sort.