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yorch on 16 January 2010

THIS is journalism, not like the IGN rants...

Very well written and objective article.



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Kenology on 16 January 2010

As everyone else has said, this is a nice article.



Rath on 16 January 2010

Nice article, gets a page view from me. Pretty much in agreement with what this guy has said.



jarrod on 16 January 2010

Kohler always nails it.



SaviorX on 16 January 2010

Nice substantiated analysis.



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theRepublic on 16 January 2010

Great article, and it even made me LOL for a good reason.

I’d expect to see a PSP2 announcement soon: Sony’s handheld business doesn’t need a shot in the arm. It’s already had plenty of shots and the nurse is having trouble finding a vein. It needs, I don’t know how to continue this metaphor, an enema. That’s terrible, I’m sorry.



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ph4nt on 17 January 2010

Is this a joke?

We all know unbiased and thoughtful journalism does not exist in the game industry.



Kenology on 17 January 2010

Is this also the dude who admitted that he was wrong on picking the PSP over the DS years ago?



thx1139 on 17 January 2010

Nice article, but I feel as for Nintendo titles and sequels the article misses one big difference that Nintendo titles for the most part ignore.

Nintendo titles dont have stories they are telling.

Mario Kart Wii - no story
NSMBWii - Well not no story but every Mario title has the same story
Wii Sports - no story
Wii Sports Resort - no story

The 3rd party titles and 1st party titles on other consoles try to tell a story and then people want to experience the continuance of the story. Even Zelda falls to this to some extent. Nintendo wants to avoid stories, because they feel they then will have more need for sequels during a generation.

Sports titles are a little different. Publishers rely on the fact that sports nuts want updated rosters each year to reflect the real teams.



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

Kenology on 17 January 2010
thx1139 said:
Nice article, but I feel as for Nintendo titles and sequels the article misses one big difference that Nintendo titles for the most part ignore.

Nintendo titles dont have stories they are telling.

Mario Kart Wii - no story
NSMBWii - Well not no story but every Mario title has the same story
Wii Sports - no story
Wii Sports Resort - no story

The 3rd party titles and 1st party titles on other consoles try to tell a story and then people want to experience the continuance of the story. Even Zelda falls to this to some extent. Nintendo wants to avoid stories, because they feel they then will have more need for sequels during a generation.

Sports titles are a little different. Publishers rely on the fact that sports nuts want updated rosters each year to reflect the real teams.

This is a thread about videogames.  Not literature.  Not to mention it doesn't really make much sense.