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Sticking up for Nintendo
Reader jasoncart wrote in to give us a heads up on an editorial over on Ferrago. In it, the author defends Nintendo from its numerous detractors. From the article: "I love Nintendo and make no apology for it. I admit still that they annoy me like no other company in the gaming world. They can be at times simply utterly frustrating, I know that too well, but how shall I put it? Love is true but comes at a price. It's the one that is closest to you that can hurt you most."
Except that game sucked and should have been censored, as a girl I repect Sony more for censoring that POS
Let me see if I can find an article about some guy praising Sony and another praising MS then slashdot them all, thats the only way I can think of keeping our supposed "unbiased" status here in slashdot.
Seriously guys I can definetily understand why to bash MS and the xbox , but sony? other than evercrack what harm have they done to the geek open source community? (slashdot) as far as I know they use linux to code ps2 games didnt you knew that? and every geek I know has a soft spot for cool electronics and thats what sony is all about, they even brought spiderman to the big screen spiderman!
No offense guys but Nintendo is the Walt Disney of the videogames world they created a set of lovable characters (and gameplay styles) about ten years ago and they are still milking every single penny from them and us. All the rest of their creations are bastardizations and clones of their original ones. (wario? metroid 3d? please!)
They have done some clasical good games thats true, but other than the nes and the snes their consoles are simply substandard on purpose (to milk more money out of them) they may look like like some poor rebel independent child loving company but they are a billion dollar backstabing cut throating supercompany like all the rest! (in case you didnt knew family games are the ones who make the most money!) you can even compare them and their business practices to MS at some point. You cringed all over when MS tried to make all windows users pay an annual fee, but you just smiled when Nintendo forced everyone to buy 4 gameboys for a four player game (even if you had the controllers!) when they could have made a cool multiplayer online game instead, get you act together guys. geek is cool, blind fanboyism is not.
Just to beat some sense to you consider this the DS is a double screened gameboy with a nintendo 64 chip in it. the second screen is a cheap touchscreen from a palm, at the end you are just getting a cheap palm. Why they didnt made a portable gamecube with a miniDVD disk instead? each time you say "battery consumption" or "loading times" slap your face as hard as you can. the answer is "Because is a LOT cheaper! and with their fanbase they wil still make the same profit even if its completely underpowered!" maybe you will be able to beat the fan boy out of you. maybe not.
Go ahead mod my day!
Go ahead MOD my day!
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