I have a soft spot for some Nintendo games, but not for the hardware.

If they stopped making hardware and developed 3rd party games that'd be just swell.

No, when I was younger I felt they could do no wrong, now I just don't care.

No. I grew up with Nintendo, but I purchase their consoles not because the company interests me, but they get exclusives that interest me. Sony is my favorite of the three current console developers and I have no problem giving my opinion on how poor the company is being ran.

I have a Wii U, and I criticize it's slow UI, weak online, and occasional Game Pad connectivity issues.

That said people who crticize the Game Pad are usually those who haven't played with it.

I love Nintendo. They were my childhood, and while I no longer exclusively play their games, I still buy all the main titles

Hm. Not really.

I had fun with the NES and SNES but they didn't make gaming important to me the way the PS1 did. I do have a soft spot for Zelda but most of the rest of Nintendo's IPs weren't my cup of tea. I spent far more time playing third-party games on both the Nintendo consoles I owned, as ironic as that sounds now.

Also, I know it's not quite fair, but learning that a company like Nintendo or Disney is just as ruthless and cut-throat as every other company, if not more so, makes me see them in a harsher light than those other companies. It's like my inner child is being stabbed in the kidney.

I have a soft spot for Nintendo. And it hurts, too. My butt hurts. Thanks a lot, Nintendo.

Growing up i was a staunch Sega supporter and hated everything Nintendo (even though i had never owned one of their consoles, how immature). However when Sega went bust, i plumped for Nintendo with the Gamecube and was absolutely blown away. I was converted, and to this day i will continue to be a Nintendo supporter with all their home consoles and handhelds. I have dabbled with a PS3 and an Xbox 360 in the past, and as good as they were, just wasnt for me, its Nintendo all the way. Wii U is a super console with a great gaming library, and the great thing is that i get to experience all the current Nintendo goodness, and also the classics i missed in the past due to being an idiotic fanboy.

Well I like NIntendo but I cannot defend them when they do really stupid things like:
forcing me to shut down my DSLite after going into its options (Why no auto restart?) Or not offering WPA wireless? WEP was bullshit even in 2006+

If they make a DS and 3DS with way to low resolution or dont add analog triggers to the WiiU controllers... and all of that with way to shitty batteries (Pro controller with its 80h battery excluded here! Still has no analog triggers tho!)


I also dont defend Nintendo when they make shitty character design like this:

This shit was supposed to be some powerful ancient tribe living in the clouds etc. Not nude boob chickens with faces and floating head kids. I stopped playing for half a year I swear rofl.


Or when they make almost he same game 4x in a row with the same music... like this:



Or when they somewhat destroy their games by streamlining them for people that cant exist without handholding.
This:

huge connected world you can explore

became this:

choose a level design.....


Or this:

Hub world with alot to explore

became this:

lame "line" design with no exploration at all....

This:

huge connected world again!

became this:

again sorta choose a level .......



But
I defend them when they make a powerful enough console like the WiiU.
Games so far are limited by imagination/creativity not power.

This is a DS game:

great atmosphere thanks to art style

This is a PS3 game:

boring visuals

This is a Wii game:

Huge somewhat open world game with towns etc.


This is a PS360 game:

Townless corridor game

Having the ps360 generation resulted in most things being the same because of cost/risk. (I am NOT saying that power does not result in better visuals or better games but as long as most of the games dont make use of the potential we have more power is irrelevant)

Consumers made Nintendo go "lowtech" by ignoring Nintendo's powerful consoles (N64/GC) and by buying Nintendo's weak ones (Gameboy/DS/Wii) So I see why they decided to make a bigger jump than last time but still a smaller one than the competition.


Oh yeah MarioKart double dash is shit because it has horrible controls  :) and the 3DS XL has a manufacturing error the 3D slider is way to lose it results in it vibrating when you turn the volume all the way up  so its sounds like the sound is distorting (this is the reason for the early complaints about sound)

I hate Nintendo for its mistakes and love NIntendo for its old philosophy (which they sadly give up for mainstreamers)

That's just cherry picking boring scenes on PS3.  I'm sure you can do better than that.