VGPolyglot said:
TheWPCTraveler said:
"Finest Hour" means nothing without context, which everyone else seems to have missed in this thread - including the OP.
Let me quote the last two paragraphs of a speech by Winston Churchill.
What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over ... the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
Think of this as overcoming great odds that were not in their favor - and 2017 being Nintendo's Finest Hour suddenly makes more sense.
|
[his post] |
...
All I was doing was placing this statement into the proper context necessary that a thread like this makes sense.
Making the context of the thread about how well Nintendo is doing financially or in terms of unit sales does not make sense given the performances of the Wii and DS that came before the Switch.
Making the context of the thread about how good Nintendo games have been for this year does not make sense given that (1) this varies upon the taste of the player, and (2) there actually have been better years for Nintendo software in the past - 2007 is one for me, and I'm sure that others in this thread can point out other years where they felt that Nintendo software output was better.
