Why I love Nintendo

[68soul]

Riot Of The Blood said:
Your reason for not wanting a PS3 or 360 now is complete bullshit. You're willing to miss out a bunch of great games because you find MS and Sony immature? I don't understand how a gamer can sit back and say, "MS is immature. For that reason, I don't want to play Lost Odyssey, Halo, Mass Effect, Oblivion, Eternal Sonata, Bioshock and all the other great games the 360 has to offer! I'm just not going to play great games!" I don't see how any legitimate gamer could think that way.

I don't know if i'm a "legitimate" gamer, i play since the Pong days, went thru Commodore, Atari, Nintendo, Sega... and didn't play any game for a while... then went back into it as my kids were growing up...

But all i can say is that even if you LOVE videogames, you're not supposed to have the money to buy ALL the greatest games in the world, PLUS all the new hardwares in their first year, when their prices are very high...

And also, you're not supposed to have the time to REALLY play all of these: some people have a job, a family, other hobbies, go on vacations, surf on the net, and so on... time is limited, and if i play my Wii 10-15 hours a week, that's already great...

Now do the math: Twilight Princess? 60h... Super Mario Galaxy? 40 hours... Metroid Prime 3? 30 hours... Resident Evil 4? 20 hours... That's already 15 weeks, 4 months full of great gaming for me... and i don't mention the DS, which i play very often in solo, or with my kids and whife...

And of course, even if you love good games, you could also not want to give ANY of your precious dollars to Micro$oft...

Or consider you really don't need a Blue-Ray player, as you don't need to buy all the Walt Disney stuff a THIRD TIME in 15 years, when in 5 or 10 years, there will be another "incredible" format that is the new "must have"...

Sorry man, but for the price of a PS3 and a 360, i may afford 20 new Wii games, or 40 secondhand Wii games, which means more than 2 years of fun for me and my family... thats wayyyyy more than enough...

But i consider myself a "real" videogame lover... i buy only the Nintendo consoles these days, but the first Xbox had nothing really incredible for me, and on PS2, i've REALLY missed maybe... 5 to 10 games... one of them will actually make it on Wii: Okami... so the list is now even shorter... Shadow of the Colossus, Ico, Psychonauts, Dragon Quest VIII... may i live without playing these? Of course...

So yes, maybe there will be 10 games on the 360 that i'd like to play... Bioshock is the only one that comes to my mind so far as a real "must have", and i may play it on PC...

So, is it really worth my money, when i'm also interested in movies, music, comics, animes, etc, etc?

The answer is no... and you have no "legitimation" to tell the people who's a "legetimate" gamer or not, just because they don't want a 360... we're all gamers, and we're all "legitimate"...