Matt Casamassina: Nintendo is Lazy!

[mike_intellivision]

Let's take the games he mentions as lazy one-by-one:

1. Wii Play -- it is a $10 tech demo. It is not a full game. No one ever pretended it to be. He misses its point (and conveniently leaves out that it comes with a controller).

2. Wii Music -- it was as simple or complex as you wanted it to be. Someone who plays as a barking cheerleader to defame the game does not deserve to pass judgement

3. AC: City Folk -- it could have had more. But it does have on-line play, which you would not think reading Matt's comments.

4. New Play Control series. So far in the US, all that has come out is Mario Tennis, Pikmin, and DK Jungle Beat as well as the Metroid remakes. The first two lent themselves to this control scheme. DKJB lays much more like a traditional platformer. Metroid Prime 1 and 2 now come with 3 for the same price as the Wii original sold for originally -- what is wrong wit that? (For $50 you now get three games instead of one).

5. Other Wii-makes are out there too -- from RE4 to Harvest Moon. Is that third parties being lazy?

6. It also seems like he is missing some games from the same time period -- Wario Shake, Excite Bots, etc. These were released by Nintendo, through first or second-party development.

Mike from Morgantown