Superb article, and I agree.
I really have nothing to contribute here, as you said pretty much everything about the case, but for some odd reason, I write this anyway.
It sounds a bit scary, imagine if Nintendo had actually said this before they started it.
Fan: Give us Mario, Zelda and Metroid!
Nintendo: No, no you have no idea of what you are talking about. We will do the thinking for you, and you will have much more fun.
That would have been the death of Nintendo. They had to somehow secretly make people want the games. If the fans understood that they wouldn't be getting what they wanted (thought they wanted) they wouldn't buy it.
It's insane how they actually managed to do that.
http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261
That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS
