"The Wii would be great if it had a hard drive and HD support."

[Rubang B]

Bodhesatva said:

This is one of my pet peeves.

The suggestion that the Wii has "set us back" is absurd. As a PC Gamer with top-of-the-line hardware, I could say the same for the 360 and PS3: the fact that those systems exist mean that less games are going to fully optimize my (more expensive and) more powerful computer.

Why is it that the PS3 and 360's technological advancements are just right, while the Wii is too far behind the times and the PC is only for crazy losers who spend way too much money? I haven't bought into Nintendo's hype -- as this article suggests -- he has bought Microsoft and Sony's spin, because he believes that their graphical advancements are the correct standard, the one which clearly all other choices should be compared to, and thus the PC is too much and the Wii is too little. Here's an analogy:

This guy: "Your porridge is too cold."

Me: "I like my porridge."

This guy: "But it's too cold. You bought in to that porridge even though it's too cold."

Me: "Too cold compared to what? I think it's just fine."

This guy: "Compared to this porridge over here. I'll call it porridge prime."

Me: "Well, aren't porridge prime and my porridge both cold compared to some other porridges?"

This guy: "No, yours is too cold, and all porridges that are hotter than porridge prime are too hot."

 

I couldn't have said it better myself.  Well I guess I could have, but then I wouldn't have been myself.  I would be you, and I'd be too expensive to develop comments for.

Brilliant.