hey this is the 60,000th thread...

Why are they being very protective of DQV?  Concerned DQ fan here.  And I've noticed it, especially concerning their total lack of advertising and taking comments towars the series.

Indeed.  Matt has long ago jumped on the 'Nintendo is ruining the Industry' Bandwagon.  Yet he's head of Nintendo IGN page and writing all their core reviews.  Hmm....

lol, funniest podcast I heard in a while

Matt didn't said that, was Daemon. He said he talked to one of the people that works on that company hired by Nintendo. It0s true the Wii is selling software, but it's also true that a lot of people don't. Even some gamers still think the Wii is only for "casuals" and don't know all the games available.

Its also true that these Third Party companies gave Nintendo the cold shoulder from the beginning and now are using that 'Nothing but Nintendo games and casual games sell' as an excuse to explain why they haven't tried to make an effort on the Wii (or any console since the SNES).

And its also true that Matt and his team have been making ever-increasing jabs and Nintendo and their 'strategy' this gen with each 'Wii' game that has come out. Reaching its peak in dropping all professionalism at any mention of Wii Music.

Yes, third parties didn't expected the Wii to perform so well. They bet on the wrong horse.

And yes, Ign was really harsh on Wii Music, and they hate all the "casual stuff".

That doesn't mean they would be lying about this. Is it difficult to believe Nintendo hired a company to sell more games? Even if they are selling well, they could be selling a lot more.

I wasn't really responding to that.  But I agree that Nintendo needs to change up its marketing a little.  Though it is the thing that is working the best for them.  As Sony is finding the other systems have pushed them into a corner and they have to market themselves as a 'Media machine', Nintendo has been pushed into another corner.  And so they're marketing their system as a 'user friendly' machine that anyone can play.  And they do advertise games like Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart and etc along with Wii Music and Sports.  Which is more than I can say for Sony, who hasn't even shown a game on their commercials since November that I have seen.  Just movies.

Could they do better?  Maybe.  But then it would probably be easier to push something more 'hardcore' if there was something on your system besides Mario Galaxy, Smash Bros and Mario Kart.  Frankly...those are 3 of the 5 best games on the system.

It seems to me to be a case of tone and wording. The way it was transcribed (which is accurate to what Matt actually said?) seemed to indicate that software sales for the Wii is unsatisfactory. Doubtless Nintendo wants to sell *more* software, but the implication was that software sales were poor.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of contempt for Videogame journalists while being able to point to metacritic, or be happy when a game gets a score a person agrees with, or has a has a preview in line with personal expectations. I'm glad they have thick enough skin to shrug off forum dwellers, because if I was them I would shoot the fucking internet.

well, they haven't even sold wii's to 1% of the world population yet (the ds is at like 1.5%) so they have a whole heaping ton of improvement that could be had lol.