Some may remember this gentleman as being the progenitor of any number of NPD/Nintendo thread arguments concerning Wii Third Party sales and Nintendo's Blue Ocean strategy. Agree or disagree, plenty of discussion mileage was racked up on the feet of "Birdmen and the Casual Fallacy".
I occasionally checked in with the Maelstorm blog just to see how someone with a wildly divergent and near-obsessive viewpoint tended to view the relative downturn in Nintendo's fortunes, but mostly things just devolve into bizarre crank-ish 5000 word essays on why Eiji Anouma has completely destroyed Zelda or how Mario was better in 2D. It was sort of like Nintendo-Ulillillia....not convincing, but strangely compelling.
That blog died on Christmas day - and the culprit was....
I will buy no more Wii games.....
.....There is no reason to shell out $50 to get little more than paper in return. Discs need proper cases to protect them or there is no reason to buy them at all. This is not the era of the cartridges where they could survive in paper and cardboard. Discs require cases that protect them......
This blog will no longer be updated anymore. Whats the point? This is an anti-consumer act. Now Nintendo is part of the problem instead of the solution. But hey, Nintendo was never serious about the revolution in the first place. The purpose of the Wii was not to truly disrupt the industry but to make the console the top dog. Im convinced more than ever that Nintendo developers just want to make what they want to make. This is why we get abominations like trains in Zelda (because Anonuma reads a train book to his son at night), User Generated Content (because Nintendo has shown zero interest in generating content, original or otherwise), and motion control only being relegated to a few sports games and then ignored in every other part of Nintendos output. Nintendo developers are more interested in making games for themselves from Spirit Tracks, Mario Galaxy 2, to Metroid: Other M. Super Mario Brothers 5, an excellent game, should have come out ten years ago or so. Miyamoto and others at Nintendo knew people wanted a new 2d Mario. Instead of giving us one, Miyamoto kept trying to ram 3d Mario down our throats. Mario Galaxy was his last attempt and went so far as to make parts of Mario Galaxy even 2d to get Galaxy to sell like a 2d Mario game. Hilariously, Miyamoto was not heavily involved with NSMB DS and that game has outsold every Mario game in Japan except the first one...........
.......Ive left console gaming for fifteen years. I always had the feeling I would do so again.
UPDATE: When Nintendo decided to remove plastic bottoms for SNES cartridges and decided to cover them with that awful gold covering was my breaking point around fifteen years ago.
I occasionally checked in with the Maelstorm blog just to see how someone with a wildly divergent and near-obsessive viewpoint tended to view the relative downturn in Nintendo's fortunes, but mostly things just devolve into bizarre crank-ish 5000 word essays on why Eiji Anouma has completely destroyed Zelda or how Mario was better in 2D. It was sort of like Nintendo-Ulillillia....not convincing, but strangely compelling.
That blog died on Christmas day - and the culprit was....
I will buy no more Wii games.....
.....There is no reason to shell out $50 to get little more than paper in return. Discs need proper cases to protect them or there is no reason to buy them at all. This is not the era of the cartridges where they could survive in paper and cardboard. Discs require cases that protect them......
This blog will no longer be updated anymore. Whats the point? This is an anti-consumer act. Now Nintendo is part of the problem instead of the solution. But hey, Nintendo was never serious about the revolution in the first place. The purpose of the Wii was not to truly disrupt the industry but to make the console the top dog. Im convinced more than ever that Nintendo developers just want to make what they want to make. This is why we get abominations like trains in Zelda (because Anonuma reads a train book to his son at night), User Generated Content (because Nintendo has shown zero interest in generating content, original or otherwise), and motion control only being relegated to a few sports games and then ignored in every other part of Nintendos output. Nintendo developers are more interested in making games for themselves from Spirit Tracks, Mario Galaxy 2, to Metroid: Other M. Super Mario Brothers 5, an excellent game, should have come out ten years ago or so. Miyamoto and others at Nintendo knew people wanted a new 2d Mario. Instead of giving us one, Miyamoto kept trying to ram 3d Mario down our throats. Mario Galaxy was his last attempt and went so far as to make parts of Mario Galaxy even 2d to get Galaxy to sell like a 2d Mario game. Hilariously, Miyamoto was not heavily involved with NSMB DS and that game has outsold every Mario game in Japan except the first one...........
.......Ive left console gaming for fifteen years. I always had the feeling I would do so again.
UPDATE: When Nintendo decided to remove plastic bottoms for SNES cartridges and decided to cover them with that awful gold covering was my breaking point around fifteen years ago.
