Good post-E3 Ninty editorial: "How could they do this to me?"

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Kyros said:

Nintendo, with DS and Wii, has done more than anyone else in recent years to shake the industry out of what it perceives as this torpor, and drag it kicking and screaming towards entertainment adulthood. The extreme reaction to this is, in these terms, pure teen angst.

Or the angst that people who have played a couple of games in their live and are underwhelmed by Fishing and Game Party games won't get another game worth playing till 2010?

I think the article is weird. There are of course people who really only care if Nintendo "succeeds". The real fanboys. They should be more than happy with Nintendo's direction because it provides amazing sales.

But people who want to actually play the next Zelda or Mario and who do not like Rabbits have the right to be annoyed.

 

Well, frankly, comments like that come from the ones he's talking about. Teens don't know they're angsty, afterall. They just think they're people reacting to a normal situation. Failure to see the larger picture and/or understand it, is what casuses bad behavior. It's never been about sales. It's about expanding our industry and moving the industry forward, with games for everyone, core people included.

I think the article is dead on, and well written.