Malstrom: Why Wii Music is Genius

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rubido said:

Played_Out said:

Me: Why Malstrom is a Fucking Moron

Read any of his articles. If you still don't understand why, it is because you are a fucking moron too.
Congratulations! Knuckle-dragging degenerates like you are the reason Sarah Palin can increase McCain's poll rating, despite being one of the most profoundly stupid and ignorant people ever to (dis)grace the Earth.

The use of the terms "genius" and "art" in relation to Wii Music is an insult to aesthetes and intellectuals everywhere, as are the references to Shakespeare and Philip Glass. His video comparison makes no sense either, as he claims a reproduction is more accurate than the original!

"Why on Earth would anyone want to emulate the mechanical robot way of the latter when the former lets the player use his or her soul?"

Does he not realise that Wii Music uses MIDI tunes? Could there be anything more robotic or sterile than that? Incidentally, I can only think of one game that incorporates the music of Philip Glass and it really is as close as videogames have ever come to being art. Backlash or no backlash.

Couldn't have said it better.

Ohhh please, ohhh please people. Go read his articles a little more. Then point out the one that is not sucking Nintendo's ass.This guy is a MAJOR fanboy and you should never go with people that are this biased towards something. If Nintendo decided to abandon games and sell ice cream, this guy would write an article saying how their business decision was brilliant.

Go read the stuff before wii came out (I did). It's real funny. He has all these theories of how nintendo is 'genious' and makes wild predictions about holographic technologies because we never see the graphics. Then he thinks nintendo is making a visor. He talks so much about how how nintendo is also going to innovate with graphics so much more than PS360. When E3 comes around and they show their games running on a normal TV, he changes his entire argument and says that the graphics are not important and mentions how nintendo is a genious for that.

This guy knows how to write, but he is a complete moron, just like politicians. I guess that's how politicians fool Americans so easily. If this guy can do it with all his bullshit, why wouldn't politicians be able to do the same? Just more of the same.

Congrats, you just made the stupidiest post in the whole thread. Could you point out where he is wrong?

Nintendo made profits:

FY 2004: 316 000 000

FY 2005: 777 000 000

FY 2006: 894 000 000

FY 2007: 1 489 000 000

FY 2008: 2 480 000 000

And the current FY is on track to surpass 4 billion in profit.

 

So, there really is a reason to say Nintendo is making brilliant business decisions. Besides. if you look at it, you'll notice that Malstrom isn't writing his own "theories", he's writing about the blue ocean strategy and disruption. And in order to argue the staregies, you really need to have quite a lot of merits. He even points out historical facts (i believe these originate from Christensen) and even has a few videos where people are pointing out the disruption in various products) What Malstrom is doing, is only observing the market and then writes about what it means in disruptive terms. And i must say Malstrom has a very good insight.

 

@Yushire: Sean Malstrom isn't his real name. He writes with an alias, which is a very good way to evade ad hominems.