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I agree third-parties are somewhat to blame, but their games selling badly isn't going to encourage them to ramp up production as quickly as it would otherwise.

Unfortunately, Nintendo can release a bad game and sell in the millions or multi-millions [see Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree and Mario Party 8].

It really wouldn't care about games like Mario Party 8 selling well if they sold for some other reason than the fact that Mario is in the title. If it would have been "Super Party 8" or something, it would have been lucky to break a million.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson