I think you're completely missing the point. One side specifically keeps bringing it up.
The he started it argument. That never went well with my parents. They always countered with "Well, I'm ending it!" I still think both sides like to get their jabs in when they can. Either way, I don't think continuing a fight because someone else started it is a good idea. There's no counterargument if the argument isn't rendered to begin with. Additionally, that discussion has had its day, many times in fact. I suppose the counterargument-crowd could take the high-road though
I'm not sure their is a moral highground here, we are talking video games after all. I mean is it morally wrong to suggest Nintendo isn't doing well? Remember 5 years ago when everything turned into a it prints money thread? Should we have banned those people? Those Gifs were pretty awesome though. Maybe somebody should make better Gifs for our current discussions. The pro Nintendo group could photoshop Iwata on Arnold from the terminator. It could say "Those that doubt my leadership will be terminated." The doomed group could have a Gif of a ship full of Wii Us going down over the Pacific with the caption "And nothing of value was lost." Someone more creative could probably come up with better Gif ideas.
You seem to not like these Nintendo is doomed discussions. Am I right? I'm more concerned about your sanity than moral highground. The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and expecting new results. What happens when you respond to these Nintendo is doomed threads? Did they either clarify their argument, tell you that your counter arguments weren't valid, or bring up new reasons why Nintendo was failing? Then did you feel the need to counter argument their counter argument? Did your attempt to end the argument extend the argument several pages until someone grew tired of going in circles? Nobody ever wins these arguments. I mean, I guess I would say if you love these discussions, then yes, respond to every person who criticizes Nintendo and keep extending those threads. Otherwise, just let it go, it's not worth getting riled up and similar to your argument above you can't change anything. 99.99% of the time nobody ever changes their opinion based on a forum reply.
We can't have normal discussions here because threads keep being steered toward things that have been discussed to death. I decided not to get involved in that collective nonsense this time and yet have been drawn into a different kind of nonsense though in my defense, I am responding now because you specifically called me out.
iAttacking just one side of the argument isn't going to solve the problem.
Targeting the source of the problem might.
I disagree. Based on the title of this thread I knew it would devolve into this, but far from every post does. I ignore posts and topics all the time that I simply don't care to discuss. I don't want to sound too negative, but is it possible that forum discussions are suffering around here because Nintendo is not bringing many new games to the market to discuss? It seems to me you can only do so many Final Four of the last 15 years, or what's the best Zelda topics before people get tired of that as well. But as I said above, I don't think you targeting individuals is going to solve anything but increase these thread counts. You could message forum moderators and try to get them to lock these discussions and ban repeat offenders. But that puts NWR in a tough spot too because these threads always end up being the most popular and either way they act could send a portion of their userbase looking for new forums.
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and profit (negative). There is no argument that the Wii U is selling well or selling as much as Nintendo needs it to.
