Nintendo hate?

[Metallicube]

Arius Dion said:

Boutros said:

It's not hate at all. Most of the things that were said are actually true. Maybe a little exaggerated though.

But hate is a really bad choice of word.

LoL, this made me laugh..give me a break, most of the things they said were true...sure.

But any way, some thing is definitely odd when you look at things through the looking glass. For instance, a platform like the Wii, sells the most software, sells the most hardware, has the lowest dev costs, and gets treated worst than the PSP when it comes to third party support. It can't be an argument about cpu power, when this is the case. Furthermore, you have systems like, Gamecube and the N64, that were way more powerful than the leading console the last 2 gens but third party support was crap for those systems too.

It is convenient, how the case is made for installed base for those instances, but then the context changes to power or resolution for the current context.

Not sure I understand the whole can't compete with Nintendo thing, as they had no problem competing with Nintendo during the SNES or NES era. Or more currently with the DS.

It most certainly is hate, the why of it all is probably the hardest to put in words. But people can feel and see it, from G4TV, to GI, to N4G, hell Kenology created a thread based on this very premise. I think its the Nature of Disruption, or a Disruptive product, People look at the NES through rose tinted glasses, but if you were to compare era's you'd see the NES and Wii are the most similar of consoles. NES was hated on as well, by third parties to the media to the justice department etc. Just read what EA had to say about the NES back then lol. I guess its just coincidence that the NES like the Wii, was/is a disruptive product.

Yeah, I think the Wii, like the NES when it came out, is a console "ahead of its time" so to speak. A lot of the curent "hardcore" gamers hate it now, because it is a revolution in gaming values, which they do not understand, becuase they grew up on different values (games with epic storylines, cutscenes, graphics, complexity in control, etc). But 10 years from now, when more people who grew up with Wii as their first console become "hardcore" gamers themselves, Wii will be looked at as the definitive console of modern gaming, much like NES now is.

This is why I find it amusing that so many HD fanboys shout that the HD consoles will outlast the Wii, when Wii will in fact be the console that better stands the test of time, while PS3 and Xbox 360 will be seen as obsolete consoles of a previous era of gaming.