Ill tell you something. Advertising and marketing is a powerful tool. If you are consistently told something isn't what you should have and then told just as often that something else is what you should its alot easier to buy Coke instead of Pepsi.
Me, I try but i agree the magnetic pull of bullshit, corporate / forum recycling of stereotypes , is mightily tempting. Nintendo don't play that game but surprisingly i still stick with them.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
