I Am Disheartened . . .

[Jordahn]

theARTIST0017 said:

I am sorry but this is more personal nothing mainstream or anything. It was about a year back I was at Brunswick with my cousins and I won a Wii in one of the gaming machines and gave it to him (cause I already had one). Today I go to his house to find out that he had sold it with the help of a friend for $200. I asked him why he sold the Wii and he said becuse he was saving for a PS3. Not that was very disheartening to hear that he sold the Wii, but if he had sold it because he needed to pay a bill I would have reason and said oh because that makes sense. But to hear it was for a PS3 made it even worse because he used to love Nintendo but he kind of lost his love for it. I have nothing against Sony or anything I respect their business I like Playstation but I just felt like reaching out to fellow Nintendo gamers out their so you can tell me how this story makes you feel.

 

And if you guys have similar stories or something you would like to share please do. Oh and thank you for reading those that did.

 

 

This story makes me shake my head in understandable disbelief...

I used the be the BIGGEST rabid Nintendo fanboy.  And when I first heard that that SONY had a console called the "PlayStation," I was like "sounds more like some gay bar to me"  (please forgive me here because I was blinded by immaturity back in those days).  And I was like, what's SONY doing making a gaming console???  But I later learned that the franchise that ran through my vessels (Final fantasy) jumped shipped to land on the console I vowed to never buy.  So I swallowed my pride and became a gamer the day I bought an original PlayStation, a memory card, and a brand new copy of Final Fantasy VII.  It was so golden.

During this time, there was this little invention called the internet what was really taking off.  It made information so accessable that I started to learn things about by beloved Nintendo that I never thought to be true such as their strained relationship with Squaresoft.  Also SONY entered the market with the PlayStation to help recuperate losses from a CD project they had with Nintendo in which it was halted after Nintendo stabbed SONY in the back.  So really my eyes opened.  But thankfully the heart of Nintendo, Shiguru Myamato, remained true to himself and is the reason why Nintendo has always remained with me in some form or fashion.  This is what makes Nintendo so great.

So congrats to your friend on his PS3.  It's an awesome console.