I was expecting more BS in this list then there was. My reaction, for whatever it's worth.
1. Hardly relevant. Can't think of a single Wii game Nintendo released that would be substantially improved by HD. So Hyrule gets a longer draw distance and Super Mario Galaxy gets what? More particles skipping around?
2. This is true. Not as many as the wiimote introduced, and much of the ground already covered by DS, iOS and Android, but having a fixed screen and a separate reorientable screen is something new.
3. Nobody's gonna argue that the Wii's online couldn't have been more elegant, and I think I like the idea of BYO storage. I just hope Nintendo makes that storage easy to manage.
4. Eh, maybe the publishers are struggling because they're boneheads. They make what I want and they get my money, if they don't, then they don't. It's not my fault if they throw infinity dollars at mediocre cinematic sequences and decide the only games worth publishing are bromantic shooters and cynical minigame compilations. Seems to me that if a lot of these games had the fat cut out of them and weren't sequel-mined to exhaustion, they could actually turn a reliable profit.
5. Sure, fine. But the proof is in the pudding.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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