Video Games were once reserved for a noble breed. Adventurous young action-driven boys.
Sony polarized gaming. By breaking Nintendo's run they claimed edgy grown up content as their own, then they perverted it. Sony injected a disgusting "cool" element such as MTV, street culture, sex, popular music and "trends". All vile and disgusting, foreign to the gamer warrior of old.
This forced Nintendo to cater to little baby kids, and as a result we got kiddy Mario and kiddy Link, Pokemon for 6 year olds, and baby Yoshi. Everyone had to be round and colourful, interactive tele-tubbies episodes. Every sharp edge had to go. Challenge as well.
A sharp contrast from the SNES and NES.
Nintendo became a kiddy company. And it became their basic income generator.
They didn't care that they ruined their classic series in the process.
As Sony continued to expand gaming to unworthy casuals, Nintendo's evil practices (which would had otherwise bankrupted them) payed off. For every pissed of Nintendo war-veteran who left them, they gained 3 new Pokemon kids.
Nintendo as the classic concept of good moral gaming for real gamers does not exist today. Nintendo today share but the name of the company and ownership of their classic franchises with the glorious company of old.
Nintendo's new direction is a direct attack on gaming culture.
Nongaming is such a disgusting trait of humanity, the trendy hip people who couldn't pull of a hadoken, who waved the controller as they tried in vain to have Mario move forward. We saw them as inferior beings. If your aunt, mom, wife our girlfriend play video games, what's the point anymore?
Gaming is about making a statement against society. A club for special people.
The Nintendo Wii and much of the DS content is unintelligent gaming. It's does not require thought nor real gamer dexterity. It's an abominaton catering to the lowest common denominator.
Nongaming is "Inclusive". A popular word these days. The problem is that gaming always was about an elite group of people enjoying themselves knowing that the retarded casuals among them were to dumb to understand!
Iwata and Miyamoto have lost the plot, the forgot about their calling, our mission. They care only about their shareholders approval.
"We will expand on the definition of gaming"
This coming from the self-claimed thought leader and innovator. True at one time, today any serious gamer rolls his eyes in contempt. Gaming's definition is already set in stone. Anything deviating is nongaming.
Nintendo are liars
" Wii is region free"
" Wii will be afforable *wink*"
"Our next console will have incredible graphics, the new standard as NES and N64 were"
"We have 20 new games in production for the GameCube"
"We have made the best ever Mario" (NSMB)
" Zelda Twilight Princess is Gamecube Game above all"
Reggie
Enough said.
Nintendo is hijacked. A creature that needs to be put down to sleep.
And as Nintendo set sail for the blue ocean, this once loyal veteran of the 8 and 16-bit wars in the early ninetees will change his outfit. The fanboy jacket must go in favor of the Corsair's outfit. I'll load the cannons and see to it that Nintendo's ship sink yet. To have the glorious Nintendo legacy rest on the seabed, never again to be tainted by inferior remakes and other revolting shit.