I'll do the usual thing and use this thread to rant about every bit of (in my eyes) wrong information in Malstroms posts.
Here is my latest gripe: Malstrom says for its time the NES was behind in tech (he even compares it to the Wii situation) and that's just...wrong.
The most common thing you'd find in a gamer's home in 1985 was a C64. Tech wise the NES was vastly superior to the C64 - which was released in 1982. The Famicom was released just one year later and pretty much wiped the floor with the C64 graphics wise. Sure it wasn't a juggernaut compared to what you could get at that time. But saying "computers were going 16-bit!" is a bit like saying the Playstation 3 is outdated today because "computers are going 8-core!"... basically no one owns a 8-core CPU computer right now. It's the nature of consoles to get "outdated" after some years. That's how this business works. Oh and the NES had no loading times. Has anyone ever fired up a game on the C64? You had to wait up to 10 (ten!) minutes for some games to start up because some games were released on cassettes (hope that's the correct noun lol 
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The NES wasn't any more outdated than the PS2 was after some years. That never stopped consoles from selling well.
Also, calling Mario Kart a "Gamecube era" game ist just stupid. The series started on the SNES and has never really changed since then. It only changed on the Cube once but that approach was ditched with Mario Kart DS and Wii. So what is he talking about? The same goes for Animal Crossing which saw extreme sales growth with each iteration - it only declined with the Wii, for obvious reasons.
