ROFL!

Sorry people but I can't help but laugh when I hear all your cryings. You read some paragahps or two and doesn't even analize them. I heard the article and is veyr true. He's refering to the abuse of those "red flags" because let's face it, most of the blockbuster games out there abuse them a lot.

But your hardcore mentality makes you cringe and how! You people make me sad.

Nice, very nice. How can you comment on others crying when you're doing it yourself? Leave the thread please.

You're taking the notion of a "tutorial" to the extreme. A few instructions here and there don't make a tutorial IMO.

I agree the article has some flaws though.

Yeah, propaganda like this:

http://thewiikly.zogdog.com/article.php?article=89&ed=10

I normally enjoy malstrom's articles but this one seen boring this was the first one that I skip a lot of parts.

I don't like reading manuals unless they're epic by themselves, I'd much rather prefer that all non-obvious things are explained by a quick set of instructions when the ability becomes available, or in the worst case with a help screen available in the game options or something like that.

Huge unskippable tutorials are too much though, and so are big missions whose only purpose is to teach you something about the game (see GTA4 for many examples). I agree with Malstrom in this regard.

So there's a differentiation between a "few instructions" and a "tutorial"?  They're one in the same.  Granted, this is a small tutorial, but still one nonetheless.

You do realize that he's speaking about what has happened and not what is intended?

Also your passing off what you believe as what another person really meant to say, which is just arrogance. In fact most of your inserts above were just personal attacks to challenge the credability of his writing by morphing his sentence into what you believed then attacking what you believed and placing the blame back onto his sentence.

He sais he is happy he writes for casuals, the context claims he's relating this to gaming in that a product geared towards the so called casuals is actually trying to target everyone.

Malstrom: Years before the Wii, Nintendo began to see the Dillemma. They noticed the Core market was sick. North America’s gaming growth had become so stagnant that analysts had to resort declaring ‘growth’ as rise in revenue not factoring in rising costs for consoles and games. The Core market in Japan was so sick that it had begun to contract. If Nintendo kept going the same route, as Iwata said, all they could do is just wait for the market to shrivel up and die.

Hardcore: Iwata was being dramatic.

Malstrom: I don’t think so. With the success of the Wii, I think we should look back at what Iwata said with more thought. The concept is to build up an Expanded Market and keep the Core Market as healthy as possible before the Dilemma hits. Like the newspapers and the Internet, the old ‘Core’ games must be converted to the new values of the Expanded Market if they are to survive the Dilemma.

Hardcore: This is madness!

Malstrom: This is disruption!
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This part was funny. It reminds me of 300

It's an "extremely small tutorial" at most, which takes us right back to my claim that you were taking his words to the extreme.