How the Videogame Industry Shot Itself In the Joystick--and Why the Wii Has Stopped the Bleeding

[couchmonkey]

Legend11 said:

couchmonkey said:
I haven't read the article yet, but I'm going to make a quick suggestion to people that don't agree with it:

You haven't read the article yet you're commenting on other peoples' opinions of it who have?

Yeah, I'm responding to a thread.  On the basic argument of "is Nintnedo saving gaming?" I think it's very useful to look at just how badly the competition is performing.

I totally agree with him about Street Fighter II. That game was incredibly complex and fighting games as a genre have been used as an example of Nintendo's "controller inferiority" since the dawn of the GameCube era. All these buttons to play one genre of game.