First of all, this doesn't surprise me. The thick-skulled fanboy ratio (for any system or company) on that site is extemely high, but not quite at Kotaku's ratio. I mean commenters, not the writers. So if one of the comics in the weekly webcomic vote upholds their fanboy notions, they tend to vote for that than the comics they actually like. I mean it. When the vote doesn't have one of those comics, the comments are for how funny a comic is to them, but when it has one of those comics, the comments are for how "true" it is.

This week, they voted for the comic that supported thier notion that Nintendo has abandoned the hardcore. Yes, even though Nintendo has stated clearly they are still working on core games, they magically will not count unless they are announced at E3, which means Nintendo has abanoned hardcore gaming.

Sure but it still defines a trend ...

I m sure you agree.

Ninty will make others hc games but dont expect Ninty to put their main effort on them.

No, you aren't sure I agree. You just think I would because you want it to be so.

I've seen you make lots of comments that make Sony look better and Nintendo and Microsoft look worse. In other words, I don't trust your opinion on any of those companies.

There is no trend from Nintendo, except their stated intention not to announce games before they were ready to be shown. E3 isn't going to magically be the time all the big games are ready.

There are a lot of Nintendo haters out there. They will cling on to anything that makes Nintendo look bad or marginalizes them. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. I'm not saying this indignitantly. I'm just stating a fact. Nintendo fans should be used to this by now. Afterall, the guiltiest villians in this whole fiasco are the mainstream entheusiast gamer press.

Well they complained about the lack of the "fun" of E3 two years ago, and when Nintendo tries to add fun, it turns out the press people define E3 fun as loads of announcements they can gush about.

Yes, they make both. So there is no trend.

What he meant was that the E3 showing indicated a trend, not the business plan we already knew. That was what I replied to, which is what the whole sentence meant, not the part you quoted out of context.

as a massive nintendo fan myself i found the webcomic with mr potatomato really funny

I don't get the purpose of the topic. There's no links to this site, or it's comic, so it's just some paragraph rundown on supposed bias? Ok.

Bottom line is, you don't need to travel even past our site to see that many people were disappointed not only with E3 but with Nintendo as a whole right now. I personally don't have faith in the third party effort yet, so I look at Nintendo's fall lineup as a spase offering. Would it really have been that hard for them to have one more "veteran" game ready for the Fall? They have a lot of teams and should be able to have games to deliver at crucial times of the year, so Christmas.

Disaster took a turn for next year. Captain Rainbow is interesting but completely unknown whether it'll deliver. Animal Crossing will rely on a broken online infrastructure to get people to play together, and honestly plays to the strengths of the other two consoles. Mario Super Sluggers is entering a market where baseball fans already have three distinct choices. That leaves, at least to me, the entire Fall on the shoulders of Wario Land Shake It and all it's greatness. Nintendo will have my $50 there.

You can't expect people to be pleased with a company that openly states they're not looking out for their interests at one of the major videogame conventions, that has historically been all about them. Lord, you yourself and many others took some nonsense forum moderator opinion and turned it into a crusade against Ubisoft. Aren't some of us entitled to be offended and felt left out when Reggie Fils-Aime and Cammie Dunaway both tell us in post-E3 interviews that we have our core fix with Animal Crossing and to tell us to continue playing Brawl and Mario Kart? That shit was insulting. Thank god Miyamoto was there to play damage control against those two, with the hope over the horizon of a Zelda, Mario and Pikmin fix.