Swimming upstream...

[Onyxmeth]

RolStoppable said:

Onyxmeth said:

@Rol-I didn't necessarily mean this portion of his writings I didn't believe in. I mean I'm not totally sold on everything he says. This article isn't actually all that bad, but sometimes he's talking about things like when he goes off on Mega Man 9 for having poorly made villains and it makes him sound like a moron. I also don't like his one-sided take on this console gen taken entirely from the point of everything Nintendo does is perfect and everyone else is wrong that has a different approach. He sometimes tries fitting a square peg into a round hole just to make Nintendo come out the winner in an article.

I know what you mean, sometimes it's as if he has already formed a conclusion and tries to fit in every piece of data to arrive at this conclusion. At least he criticizes Nintendo's Wii Music as well when he talks about user generated content games and how that is the wrong approach to games, because people don't buy games to create their own content or play other people's content, they buy games to consume content made by professionals. Yes, some people like the idea of user generated content, but the sales of such games so far show that this isn't the next big thing.

I admit that I enjoy his often onesided blog posts about Nintendo doing everything right, because most of the stuff found on the net is usually pretty negative when it comes to Nintendo.

I think it's his article Nintendo's Shield that pisses me off the most at times. He sits there and degrades Microsoft's fantastic blue ocean strategy of Xbox Live Arcade as nothing more than copying the PC format, and then a few paragraphs later talk about how different, exciting and a great counterattack to a new disruptor Wii Ware is. Wii Ware is nothing more than Nintendo entering the red ocean already occupied by XBLA and PSN. It's things like that, total contradictions and square peg reasonings that make me not like Malstrom a whole lot, even though I will wholeheartedly admit he's the smartest gaming analyst on the net by far, but that's not saying much.

It makes perfect sense. ™