No worries. To me it seems like you dislike Nintendo's marketing and branding rather than their innovation. Because to be honest Galaxy was a whole new experience altogether. I honestly don't think they slapped Mario onto the game because it does hold true to its roots still, and it was made by the Mario team and took inspiration from the series in general, but it is absolutely a new experience. I don't think that needed to change. Imho they need a better balance. Keep Mario and all that, and then market their new IPs better. I agree with you on that, that Nintendo isn't willing to take that risk in the core market at least.

As for Pheonix Wright on the home console, well a few games have crossed between the DS and Wii, a few examples are Trauma Center and Wario Ware. But I agree that more could be done. The problem with that is it's in the hands of 3rd parties as that point (Pheonix Wright is made by Capcom and Trauma Center by Atlus).

But as for seeing new faces, I know exactly what you mean and I agree. I just believe there's a balance to the answer to the problem, and there's a way to phrase the issue (since Mario and Zelda still largely innovate in their own way, without being new IPs). It makes the person criticising sound more in touch with the actual issue, and gets rid of Nintendo fans going "What are you talkin' about?" ;)

this pretty much describes me too

I have to questions/opinions I want to throw at you because you're obviously a fan and although I doubt I'll reply to you I'm still curious to see your response;

Uncharted has great stories? No, they're as deep as a Mario game. You're confusing a great story with great storytelling. In every Uncharted game the story is that you're seeking a magical artefact/treasure but a bad guy/woman wants it for ultimate power so now there's a quest to reach it before they do. Finished. It doesn't help that there's no story arch across the series since they're all self contained 'stories'. And the characters are likeable but they're incredibly shallow, UC3 is the only game in the series that tried to make Drake a more interesting character especially in the young Drake section but the game just left unanswered questions and added no depth at all, he's just a generic good looking funny guy who's poorly written (e.g. In the museum in Turkey he was opposed to killing the guards then after a few minutes he was perfectly fine with throwing them off rooftops in the sea full of sharp rocks that would kill him in an unimaginably painful way?).

I'll tell you what Uncharted does well. It's cinematography, voice acting + well written dialogue, set-pieces and most importantly to its fans, great graphics. The weak story, solid but unremarkably gameplay, shallow characters, unimaginative art-style and predictability of the series is what stops them being great games and merely decent (UC1 & 3 or good UC2). I'd bet that if Uncharted was started on the PS2 and was exactly the same in every way except for the great visuals then it would have a lot less fans and praise from critics because it clearly lacks in the gameplay and story departments. 

For people who wonder why I don't particulary like the Uncharted series, now you know why and you'll see that I don't think they're all that bad. I'm always fair and want to love everything I play but unfortunately not possible.

As for you RolStoppable, I'd bet that if you did buy a PS3 you'd enjoy at least a dozen games (enough to justify buying a console in my opinion). A lot of Sony's games put spectacle over substance, but there's literally something for everyone and you'd most likely find at least a few exclusives you like. Then there's all the third party games you could check out, maybe it would be worth it for you to buy a PS3 in a couple of years when the console + games are very cheap and just try out all the games that interest you, perhaps you'll enjoy enough games to justify purchasing future Playstation consoles to enjoy future iterations of those franchises. Or you could just stick with Nintendo and save yourself money, at the end of the day only your opinion and preference matters to you but if you have the money and love gaming I don't see why you can't own multiple consoles. 

I used to love Sony PS1 and PS2 were great but after those two I've been with Xbox primarily since 2008

That is very biased, you like Nintendo, good for you, but don´t use your man-hater-mind to justify your taste.

I am 31 years old, and like SONY, but not because of this "is she hot?" nonsense you talked about. It is because I like their games, PS3 has amazing games that are NOT SEXYSTS in no way shape of form, like Valkyria Chronicles, Siren, Journey, Walking Dead, Red Dead Rendemption and hundreds of others.

Your genre or sexual issues have no correlation with gaming and you should not try to impose them as reasons for liking or disliking any of the big three.

That said, I respect your option and am sure that Nintendo will entertaing you well enough.

ummm what?

Exactly why it's the total opposite. If people calm their emotions and read thoroughly they would soon realise it's a fake thread, not only the op has obvious hints, but some posters have already typed the "it's a rol thread".

But, if you take a look and see all the people arguing, you then will see that it's been quite a successful rol's thread.

People need to step aside of their gaming preferences if they want to truly enjoy a rol thread.

It's amazing to see so many users, new and old, still getting rolled in this forum after so many years.



Kudos.

It's always nice to see a master of their craft at work.

Keep up the good work Rol