Since I have no desire whatsoever to play Blur, I would have to agree.

some of em was well deversed, nintendo was a dick to third parties-

on the other side, it turn out great for them, and nintendo WAS WRONG. CD was the future and it helped them sell more with FF.

and the lynx i forgot about that it looks like gameboy advance took some design cues from it.
same the PSP

Really?  That just seems so backwards to me.  I completely understand about the 8 seconds thing it's just my thinking that if something doesn't look like an ad I won't approach it like an ad.

nice ads

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Your thinking would work for a family brand advertising like baby food...or heart medication. Something where the consumers have the time and want to research the product.

But videogames are all about wham bam thank you maam :) Even back then.

The Nintendo Tv commercial for donkey kong was good. Show the game and how great it looks and get everyones attention...and then say "can't play it on 32x".  Winner!

A bit off topic, but I see "high definition" in there.

This is why I found the recent use of the term to be total BS. It was just the entertainment companies trying to find a way to justify that term, instead of making the actual content of movies and games better (better graphics don't make weak games better, just more expensive and time consuming, while great games kick ass  no matter the graphics anyway).

Back on topic, I have to agree with disolitude on ads. Expecting the mainstream to read and research why an entertainment product is better just doesn't fly. That's also why using specs as a selling point, whether processing power or motion control sensitivity, nowadays is still foolish.

Get your facts straight Mister: I had this avatar long before Khuutra.  I'm not Khuutra; Khuutra is me!

Er..... oh s***

People accuse Sony of being a misspelled Classical Greek philosopher?

You should probably include a link to an article about how Nintendo asked Sony to make the SNES-CD first, and how that project became the Playstation.

While I agree as a general principle, wouldn't that be a bit different on a magazine about videogames? I mean, every article in there is about going more or less "in-depth" about a game or a system, so it seems like the kind of thing that would make sense, the kind of thing a reader would be more or less interest on. It also might serve as material for already existing fans to use on fanboy arguments :)

Thats actually a solid point... So nintendo was possibly hoping to mask an ad as an advertorial or an article. Damn, they played drity :)

I think these ads are great to be honest. Make the industry more fun.

I wish there was more smaller players around in the industry which were doing crazy things like releasing add-ons for consoles no one bought (Jag CD) or pricing their games at 200 dollars per cartrige (neo geo).

We'd surely see some funny ads if Sega or Atari were still trying to sell us consoles...

Those were exciting times...

I like my Nintendo consoles, but I have to admit they did a pretty good job.

I don't see anyone mocking the DS though, so looks like it still has a good future.