Nintendo uses the financial bottom line to screw customers. They've done it better than any other company. Yet at the same time, they know that in order to be financially viable, they have to satisfy the consumer.

In the end, it's kind of a roundabout argument. You can't have a viable industry without it meeting the needs of the consumer. It's a symbiotic relationship.

Of course, I guess to Mr. Malstrom, the best thing that could happen would be to have every company, sans Nintendo, implode.

Okay, let me hear this one.

Besides what Malstrom said, what I hate about the videogame industry:

- DRM, it doesn't stop pirates, it only affects those that acquire their games legally.

- games costing more in Europe than in the US, while I agree to pay the difference caused by the VAT, I see no reason to pay 232% more on th same game.

Pretty good article this time.

Yeah, he could have shortened the article a bit but it was a good read.

Good read. Probably my favorite recent piece from him.

For one thing, his site isn't very big at all. If he's bragging about site growth, he better hope that no one actually bothers to look up any facts. Second off, is he really complaining that the game industry is called the game industry? It's the same as the film industry or music industry. It's a series of companies competing with each other for consumer interest, hence, an industry. Yes, they do care about profits. That's why they compete for our dollar. We give them money. It's not like they started caring about money and then decided that the people giving them money didn't give them money. Small internet followings about the lack of LAN in Starcraft 2 and his really low traffic rank aren't evidence of much. And it seems to me that the gaming population is growing, not shrinking. Frankly, I don't want the destruction of the game industry. Sure, it's not perfect, but it provides lots of enjoyment to hundreds of millions of people around the world, and it's growing all the time. And since it's still a fairly young medium, there's tons of room for growth. Thousands of people have jobs in the gaming industry, and a lot of money is generated because of gaming. I'm sure this was a nice read, but a lot of the things he said were just terrible.

I second this.

Incredible...The only article from this guy i care about...i need to save and remember this

I'm not even sure that he would spare Nintendo, he hates them, too, recently.  

I would be curious about his website popularity stats, but Alexa.com can only calculate with all of wordpress.com.