We need to spread the word of the Lord. Who knows better than Nintendo?

I also like how they pack all of the content onto the disc that's ready at launch. Holding content back so you can charge for DLC that's ready on launch day seems wrong to me when you're charging full price. If they do DLC, it's usually a big project like Super Luigi U.

My earliest memories are around '83, playing the Atari 2600 on my living room floor. I was 7 years old in 1986 when my mom heard about this cool new gaming console called, The Nintendo Entertainment System, and decided to buy one for us on impulse. So for ME? Nintendo is my childhood. Throughout the years, as I got older and the PS1 came out, I found myself drifting away from Nintendo and more towards "adult" gaming because I was a teenager and thus, a mindless idiot only concerned with being "cool". But no matter what, every time I heard the main theme to Zelda, or Mario or Metroid, it would always pull me in, like some ancient mystical voodoo on the brain. Nintendo never left me, I left them. But I think I'm about to go full circle this gen.

Why?

With Microsoft's blatant full on ASSAULT on the industry that I love and Sony locking down multilayer and denying any and all PSN purchases from carrying over, I feel that Nintendo is the last free and open GAMING system. Full BC, free online, ZERO DRM etc., it just feels like they're making a stand and I can really get behind that. If the Wii-U and it's principles are on a sinking ship, I'm going down with it.

I'm making MY stand.

I stand, I ovate.

I understand your approach, and believe me, I've nothing against Nintendo. My stand is different - as long as your system is truly about games, then you're a true gaming company. Sony has been pushing hard into that direction, Microsoft - pulling away. Payed online shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, and it's only a thing of principle, there's pretty much no chance that if you can afford a console and a $60 game, you can't afford $4-5 a month to play online.

BC is missing from the PS4 for technical reasons, I'd say. Emulating so much hardware or including some of it as actual components is impossible, and too expensive, respectively.

Sony did a nice job with the PS4. I can only hope that the online fees will go toward improving the infrastucture. PS+ gives lots of other benefits in the face of free games and discounts, otherwise.

I think that the phrase "just make better games" is idiotic.

Every single developer out there aims to make the best game they can, no one is shooting for mediocre.

It's been a while since they've made any sense. But I couldn't agree more.

Already posted.

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