http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11284&Itemid=59
This is stupid and really annoying considering games were, to a degree, the last bastion of ad free entertainment. That and the internet up untill it became 'popular' and full of mcdonalds bs.
I think in game ads, character drinks a coke, are ok but pop ups and crawling ads, they are shiite.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
