Malstrom: Nintendo’s Shield & Defense = “Sustained” Disruption?

[Arius Dion]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Mummelmann said:

Arius Dion said:
Interesting that people choose to attack the blogger rather than the bloggers points...

If you view my post history (if you included me in this notion, that is) you'll see that I usually commend some of his points but I feel that they drown in his incredible arrogant style and delusions of grandeur and the fact that he, literally, only writes about one thing; Nintendo's struggle against the evil world and their brilliant plans that no one understands.

Has he got some valid points sometimes? Yes, to claim otherwise is just silly. Is he still a bore that write the same piece over and over under the guise of different article titles and slightly different angles? Yes, that as well. The fact that many people elevate a blogger near divine status to is quite disheartening and it leads me to believe that it lies more in the fact that they like what he says because it agrees with their preferences and less with being really brilliantly fantastic at anything.

Read his full articles they are far better than his blog posts

I'd second this. What actually drew me to Malstrom was how he was going left while every thing else was going right. He Provided (for me) an alternative view on the happenings with gaming. What was of great interest was how in the world Nintendo was able to accomplish what they did with the Wii this generation and the talk of blue ocean and disruption in relation to gaming was an informative read. I can see how some (many) people may find this persona annoying but I feel the grandure nature of it is part of his appeal like him or loathe him.

After reading Birdman fallacy and even some of his earlier articles preceeding that one he called the Wii's success before anyone else and he was right so I don't just take what he says with a grain of salt. I don't agree with everything he says, though. And I'm not supposed to. Just like I don't agree with everything Nintendo does. I'm not some sort of parrot, I think for myself and I think others should do this more often as well. And I've definitely taken notice of your posting history, I've been here long enough ;) I wasn't trying to call you out in particular I was actually being broad in that anytime a malstrom article or blog is posted in a thread the discussion always veers off into what an asshole the guy is.