Nintendo, Square - Embarrassing?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday July 20, 2003 @02:54AM from the controversial-but-entertaining dept.

Thanks to EvilAvatar for pointing to a recent update at the sadly semi-retired ToastyFrog site, in which Nintendo and Square are added to the list of The 20 Most Embarrassing Game Companies. A gentle roasting is applied to Nintendo for being "..called the gaming equivalent of Walt Disney. Partly because their work is innovative, polished and marketable, but also because a pervasive stench of evil hovers over the company", and a similar treatment is applied to Square, of which ToastyFrog posits: "Which is worse, the company, its fanboys or its ex-fanboys? The world may never know." However, this tongue-in-cheek cynicism produces plenty of good points, most notably Square's Tom Sawyer RPG as a "terrible cultural hiccup."

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Re:Niche Player? by Scyber · 2003-07-20 06:04 · Score: 2, Informative

Actually GC and XBox are pretty much neck and neck worldwide. at least accoring to the latest figures:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/31836.ht ml

GC is a dominate #2 in Japan, and XBox is a Dominate #2 in North America.