Once more I went over to Gamesindustry.biz, and can you guess which newsarticle I found over there RIGHT above a newsheadline on the NDS?
This one: "Sony confirms PSP to PS2 connectivity rumours".
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Not that I haven´t noticed this kind of "copycat"-trend before (SEGA´s Dreamcast copied the N64 controller more or less, according to NGC Magazine and...I agree with them) but this is proof of the biggest rip-off in videogamehistory!!
I am both outraged, and in a way overjoyed!
I am outraged, because not only does SONY shamelessly copy the original connectivity idea that noone had heard of prior to Nintendo showing it at E3 2003, but they also ensure that only new game-titles will be used in this way, not only ports of existing games...and the very idea of focusing on entirely new, and innovative games for a specific platform is Nintendo´s own.
They have repeatedly stated that the Game industry will die if not re-invigorated by new types of software. The specific problem with the newsarticle, is a line reading that saved games can be moved from the PS2 to the PSP so that play could be continued on that handheld system! Go read it for yourselves! It´s just so obvious, how it´s been directly copied from the GCN-GBA Connectivity concept.
I am overjoyed, because all this and much recent information in the media prove Nintendo to be the absolute King of Videogames with all that they have said and done as concerns videogames! They must be, if everyone is running after them, and doing what they do. And one understands why Miyamoto is so cautious about revealing Mario 128 too soon!
Stealing ideas from others, is extremely poor behaviour and only shows the lack of creativity on the part of the thief! Still, I think if any two will be the final winners (they say that there can only be two in the end) of the so-called videogame war, it will be Nintendo, and big thief Sony (they also stole the F-Zero game concept and "reverse-engineered" it into the WipeOut- series) and in that order! Sony is too big and too well-established, to do away with like that, and Nintendo is too clever and too innovative to be sent to third place. So out goes Microsoft, if any does!!
But I strongly lament the jealous, childish and even vicious behaviour displayed by certain newscommentators who seek to induce us with bias towards Nintendo, and hope we will jump ship! Shame on them!! If any deserve to be bullied, it is the thief!
But this is just the usual human behaviour, I guess, when people are jealous of someone who is better than themselves! Whatever their reason, to me
Nintendo is the King of videogames!
Gamebasher.