Lost Planet confirmed for PS3, but does anyone care?

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Dodece said:
Diomedes did make a valid point in the most heinous way possible. The Nintendo boosters have used similar crutches to his own. You can't very well attack his logic if you employ it yourself. I have seen the argument creeping up more often as of late. The 360 had a fantastic month. Then suddenly almost on cue Mario games crawled out of the wood work.

There is kind of a double standard at work. He is not permitted to focus on the PS3 lineup. Granted that just about every exclusive PS3 title for the next year makes his list. However it is totally righteous to drag Mario out on a silver platter, and scream he will move a million consoles. You can rip on Metal Gear, GT, or Final Fantasy all you like. However the truth is for the last two generations those titles did move some serious hardware. Meanwhile Mario in all his glory could not bring dominance to Nintendo in the last two generations.

Right now that seems like a superfluous point, and quite frankly it is. Obviously the Wii can sell regardless of whether it has anymore titles with Mario or not. Some would argue that the machine would still fly of shelves even if all it had was sports, play, and party. Disturbing as that is to most gamers sadly it is probably true. Nintendo actually doesn't need Mario. All they need is a few party games each year. Not entirely sure why the fan base feels threatened, and need to tout these titles.

Not defending his logic by any stretch, but it does feel somewhat idiotic to call him names for playing these games if you play the exact same games. His Metal Gear argument is just as valid as your Mario Galaxy argument. Historically speaking his argument carries a bit more weight. Unfair though that might seem. I have loved every Mario platformer, kart, fighter Nintendo has made in recent years. I often feel sad we seem to only get one per generation. They were really fantastic games. However that said they didn't really bring Nintendo a lot of success. Even though they were perfect or almost perfect games.

It's true that GT, FF, and MGS have sold comparably to SM, MK, and SSB -- although the Nintendo software has about triple the attachment rate -- but Diomedes goes on to say that the other dozen-plus PS3 exclusives blow the Wii's dozen-plus exclusives out of the water.  This is just not true.  (Correction:  He actually says that about the 360.  But given the opportunity I'm sure he'd say the same of the Wii, especially given his comments dismissing the system's third-party presence in general.)