Its not necessarily the strength of Nintendo's first-party games that cause problems, look at some of the multi-million sellers like Mario Party 8 and Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, which cause problems for third parties, but the name recognition factor of characters like Mario, Zelda, Animal Crossing, etc. which draw people in over third-party competitors whose games might be similar in both type and quality but lack the same name recognition.
Even series with name recognition have yet to sell on a comparable level with a game like Super Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess, albeit those two games are of higher quality than comparable third-party titles.
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
