HappySqurriel on 06 August 2007
I was going to counter ever argument he made in this article but after getting frustrated at his use of a word of the day calendar with “indolently” rather than use a more accepted word like “Lazily” or “Poorly” and his misuse of the word preconceived I decided I would just summarize his article for everyone to read.
“The Wii’s unexpected popularity has caused a problem where most of the third party titles that have been released on the system have either been generic movie tie-ins or rushed ports of PS2 games. I am going to ignore the fact that the rushed tie-ins appear on every platform and survive mainly due to the ignorance of consumers and blame Nintendo for allowing them on their system. The rushed PS2 ports are also Nintendo’s fault because Nintendo shouldn’t have allowed third parties to port some of the best selling and highest reviewed games of the previous generation to the Wii because Nintendo should have been aware that third party publishers would not give their development teams the time or resources to do a decent job on it; I’m also going to ignore the fact that the PS3 and Xbox 360 both received many awful ports of previous generation games in their first year”.
“After I discount all of Nintendo’s games that have been reviewed and sold well I’m going to claim that Nintendo has only produced awful games for the Wii; I’m not going to take into consideration that many of the games (like Excitetruck and Mario Party 8) were considered a lot of fun in their reviews and only received lower scores due to having limitations on their features (online multiplayer and four player multiplayer for Excite Truck) and that some of the reviewers didn’t like how formulaic the Mario Party series has become.”.
“I’m going to talk about how great Microsoft is for (after nearly 2 years) releasing Halo 3 yet I’m not going to mention that Nintendo will have released 3 games of similar popularity in nearly half the time with an additional game of similar popularity to follow soon afterword”.
Essentially, the author rants about his preconceived notions about Nintendo without any evidence or actual facts; the only people who think this would be a good read are those who share these preconceived notions and are unwilling to accept facts.
“The Wii’s unexpected popularity has caused a problem where most of the third party titles that have been released on the system have either been generic movie tie-ins or rushed ports of PS2 games. I am going to ignore the fact that the rushed tie-ins appear on every platform and survive mainly due to the ignorance of consumers and blame Nintendo for allowing them on their system. The rushed PS2 ports are also Nintendo’s fault because Nintendo shouldn’t have allowed third parties to port some of the best selling and highest reviewed games of the previous generation to the Wii because Nintendo should have been aware that third party publishers would not give their development teams the time or resources to do a decent job on it; I’m also going to ignore the fact that the PS3 and Xbox 360 both received many awful ports of previous generation games in their first year”.
“After I discount all of Nintendo’s games that have been reviewed and sold well I’m going to claim that Nintendo has only produced awful games for the Wii; I’m not going to take into consideration that many of the games (like Excitetruck and Mario Party 8) were considered a lot of fun in their reviews and only received lower scores due to having limitations on their features (online multiplayer and four player multiplayer for Excite Truck) and that some of the reviewers didn’t like how formulaic the Mario Party series has become.”.
“I’m going to talk about how great Microsoft is for (after nearly 2 years) releasing Halo 3 yet I’m not going to mention that Nintendo will have released 3 games of similar popularity in nearly half the time with an additional game of similar popularity to follow soon afterword”.
Essentially, the author rants about his preconceived notions about Nintendo without any evidence or actual facts; the only people who think this would be a good read are those who share these preconceived notions and are unwilling to accept facts.
