Picko on 18 December 2007
Why should Nintendo be on the list?
As good as SMG is, the five developers on the list did various things that will change the way future games are made. Bioshock and Mass Effect from a storytelling point of view, Halo 3 with Forge and various multiplayer developments, Orange Box through Portal, and Rock Bank through the use of a multiplayer control scheme. Can one say the same for SMG? The platformer genre is basically dead and that is unlikely to change any time soon. Essentially SMG is a wonderful game but is not going to have much effect on the direction gaming will take in the future.
I know most people love Nintendo here but they really do not appear to fulfill the criteria for this list. So leaving them off seems ok.
Debating with fanboys, its not
all that dissimilar to banging ones
head against a wall
