Good, I needed another reason to think the Wii U is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

There's a reason he doesn't want to interact with Nintendo fans; it's because most of them hate him.

Lol, beautiful. :)

I actually find it quite entertaining that Malstrom is getting so riled up about it.  Also, NES Metroid superior to Super Metroid?  Mach Rider > F-Zero?  Wind Waker was a terrible Zelda game?  Man, this guy seriously needs a reality check.

OMG. 

We sound like Grouchy Old Men upset because Nintendo is no longer producing games for Grouchy Old Men.    Ugh.  Shoot me now.   

I do agree with much of what he's saying (why do we have to pay for VC games again (even for $1) so they'll play on WiiU gamepad?  Fiddling with Zelda again but likely not moving it forward.  HD WindWaker.  Really? WindWaker? One of the most reviled Zelda's ever (I know some people love it - you are the only ones who are going to pay for this - again). Also, it'd got to be the least work to make HD.  I also don't give a rats ass about Miiverse.  Etc.

Right now Nintendo is appealing to their (disgruntled and disenchanted) fanbase.  And that's all right and frankly important, because if they lose that they are totally f###ed.  But I feel, in the meantime, they are missing the masses that they won over with their daring experiment - Wii.  And that includes Malstrom and I.  Maybe they'll try for us again later (with something better than that Wii Party).  But later it'll be much, much harder as others continue to cater to our gaming wants.

Oh please. Any "core" gamer that has zero interest in any of the games announced today isn't really a true gamer, just a Nintendo basher. There was something for everyone.

I think this fits perfectly in the MC-Famitsu thread.

@Malstrom abomination speech

First, he calls Wind Waker as a bad Zelda game when it is actually the only 3D zelda trying to replicate the NES games overworld exploring the sea at your leisure without any restrictions to go from one corner of the map to the other, something that OoT, MM, TP and SS cannot do.

The he says TP tried to replicate the "old games feels" freedom when it is one if not the most linear Zelda ever.

???

Didn't they say exactly the opposite? That they had many other projects that they were going to show to us in the coming Nintendo Directs? I remember it like that.

Yes, with a possibility of one focused on third party games.

Not sure what Xenoblade has to do with Nintendo. Outside of the fact that Nintendo owns the studio.

Not at all. I myself have no interested in any of the titles, but I do see it from a Nintendo fans point of view and it was an exciting presentation. Does that make me a Nintendo basher? No. I just prefer more mature games but this is a discussion for a different time.

He seems to think that his opinion is the law. He's delusional if he thinks any kind of majority is behind him. Calling his supporters a minority would be generous.

The reality of the situation couldn't be more different. I watched the ND with a friend who cares little for most Nintendo franchises and not at all for Mario -- the only Nintendo franchise he has any investment in as far as I can tell is Metroid. He bought a Wii for Bayonetta and Monster Hunter. And by the end of the ND he was beside himself. SMT X FE. Wind Waker. Xenogame.

And two of my other friends, both of whom were insistent before today that they would never buy a Wii U, blowing up my phone. Dat Fire Emblem. Dat Yoshi. Dat Wind Waker. Dat Xenogame. Nintendo did what they set out to do. Wii U owners are excited. Many of those who were on the fence have been swayed by some game or another. Prospective buyers are more confident. And even some of those most stringently opposed to the Wii U find themselves questioning their resolve. This or that game looks mighty nice, they're thinking.

Nintendo dominated gaming news today. Even gamers who can't find anything praise-worthy about the company, its consoles, or its software at all nevertheless find themselves discussing the Wii U in great detail. Even the biggest non-Nintendo fans are coming out of the woodworks to either express interest in or to revile the Wii U. The Nintendo hatedom is almost as active as its fandom here on VGChartz at the moment.

All Nintendo had to do was announce games that everyone supposedly "knew were coming anyway," and they find themselves the center of attention. (And that is shenanigans, there's not a soul on this Earth who could have forseen SMT X FE.)