You just can´t accept things as they are can you? You are a disaster for mankind and the destroyer for all hope.

Great article. Miyamoto is awesome.

wait I just stated that the Wii is the thing that will grow the industry this generation yet you say I dont accept it? logic.. here boy.

That is a long read and I am about to go to bed so I am posting to easily find this thread tomorrow.

Nintendo keeps on repeating that core gaers are not being ignored, looks like they really mean it. What happened at E3 really hit them, core gamers still exist and they aknowledge that.

Miyamoto is without a doubt the most significant gaming icon, and he is gonna be the next president of Nintendo. He's a genius.

whats the poin of using categories if your just going to mix apples and oranges?

@The Anarchyz: It started when Shigeru made a game (in surveillance of Gumpei Yokoi) about a moustached carpenter, who was supposed to save a girl from a big ape. Donkey Kong was Nintendos first phenomenon, SMB came years later (although, it was just as phenomenical).

@ssj: Sony have had influence in gaming, but not like you suggested, as Rol said, it's largely because of population growth and the competitions lack of retail channel in certain regions. Besides, gaming going into 3D and cimematic games was an industrywide change, where Sony did contribute much about nothing, but since PSX stands as a "change in power" in games industry, people often seem to see it as an industry expanding console. The thing that Sony did with PSX, was that it marketed PSX heavily, which did help the console to reach larger (percentage of) audience.

@Topic: That was pretty good read, and nice to VGC used as a source.

that´s not what I am talking about and you know it. Every time some one mentions something Nintendo has acchieved you have to go in and mention Sony and if thats not possible you just refer to PC gaming is king anyway. It´s so sad that you always show what a tradegy of a human being you are. For once I would like you to aknowledge Nintendo wihout throwing in a but or if or mentioning Sony or PC, just straight up acknowledge the things Nitendo has done good when they actually have done something good.

Donkey Kong is the first appearance of Mario and Nintendo's first phenomenon (also made by Shigeru), we agree in that, but Donkey Kong was not the game that sold its way to the restoration of gaming on the US, all the retailer stores had the NES+SMB package, and the display on the stores was SMB... Donkey Kong was first, just like Pong or Asteroids were first, but the restoration of gaming after the crash were thanks to the NES and SMB...

They are all working on more Mario, Zelda and Pikmin projects,"

That's AAALL I needed to hear...

"And they all work in close proximity to me, so I can keep a good eye on them."

...at least until he said that.  Then I fainted.