Malstrom wants a return to the "good old days" of pong and tetris.
He let's this bias cloud his judgment over and over and over.
He forgets that without the cutting edge graphics and well designed characters, gaming was a pit of failing companies, terrible games, and wasted money. This disarray confused customers and contributed to the collapse. That is, until Nintendo stepped in and started making quality game after quality game.
What Malstrom fails to realize is that the industry NEEDS rehashes and re-imaginings and formulaic titles and episodic content and sequels because that is what reassures the market. Look how quickly Wii failed without strong titles. It was a sea of shit games (not all Nintendo's fault, but their third party dealings are very obstructive) and the market reacted just the way it did in the first collapse.
He's against UGC games. Said so for a long time...since around the LBP times, and said "the market doesn't want UGC (user generated content)". Then years later, after everyone online played the alpha of minecraft, suddenly Malstrom does a 180. Oh wait, I mean I LOVE the UGC in Minecraft. He pretended like he found a diamond in the rough, when all it took to see the brilliance of minecraft was to read 4chan and see the massive excitement and ugc being created.
Such a visionary, this Malstrom guy.
And if he's said that Wii U will fail. He's got another thing coming. Malstrom has a complete lack of vision, imo. Nintendo can do some really exciting things with this technology, and can give them a really good platform of expansion as well.
