Give Us Back The Old Nintendo (Nowgamer article)

[mike_intellivision]

With feelings like this, it is a wonder that Nintendo has sold any games or consoles -- oh, wait a minute, it has sold as much as its two closest competitors COMBINED since it came out.

Now that I have everyone's attention with an over-the-top, snarky comment, here are my real thoughts.

First of all, the article can't even be found on the Now Gamer website. It was so out there that the publisher, which has PS3 and Xbox 360 BUT NOT WII magazines in the UK, seems to have pulled it. (It does publish a Pokemon magazine -- but that is generally a handheld game and its own industry).  

Two, it is from the UK, which if you follow things, tends to lead the world in Wii bashing. Or at least it seems that way to me because so many people complain about the Wii not being the PS3 or Xbox 360  -- or at least in HD (which is exactly why so many people buy it).

Three, for companies, it is about making money, not necessarily about garnering the love of some small subset of gamers who hang around in Internet forums. While no one liked Camey's comment about the Kotaku crowd, she is right in that it is not that group who Nintendo is trying to reach -- it is the 99.44% rest of the world.

Finally, if Nintendo was doing so many things wrong, why are the "big" innovations from the competitors more resemble the Vii than something new?

Mike from Morgantown