KDR_11k, no I did not forget my "medication". I am just tired of people who likes to 1) use Nintendo´s products, but 2) be shamefull about it for thinking they´re not adult enough when talking to their friends who play Halo 2! I don´t sit in a closet and play Zelda or Mario!!
And RABicle, I am sorry to read that you think I am a weak PGC Forum member!
You wrote:
"But seriously Gamebasher, you started this thread as a bash IGN because they bashed Nintendo flame fest. The truth is that yes, if your weak enough to consider this a 'blow' to Nintendo then it would be another blow because they've had some problems recently. We're bringing up the Xbox and bashing that because frankly, Nintendo is still flying high compared to Microsoft. Human's have always put others down to make themselves feel better and did you really think that it would any different with us?"
So to answer your volley:
You may be bringing up the xbox issue, but I choose to bring up the GCN issue, since I feel that Ninty needs a big bearhug sometimes. In particular when a lot of people likes to put them down, forgetting how much Nintendo has given to them (which means they can sit and play great 3d games with great controllers today), and to the game industry itself over the years. So that´s why I like to favor the GCN issue over the xbox one! I don´t like to put people or companies down, since I always wish we could all "get along", and I really don´t see how I am weak in considering the IGN news report being a "blow" to Nintendo. It i s a blow to Nintendo, since they talk them down! What do you think others will gather of it, when they read it? They may think it´s really bad for the Kyoto-based games company right now, which is a lie.
You can click right over onto GamesIndustry.biz - one of the best gamesnews websites - and see what they write about Nintendo! They actually write what there is to write, based off of the facts rather than influencing perceptions through cunning remarks that are read by lots and lots of people!
In the stockmarket you can have financial analyst actually lower the value of stocks, by talking negative of them, since many eyes are fixed on what they write in newspapers, and on the internet. It´s not much different with the Gaming press. I.e., years ago, large parts of the gaming press talked the SEGA Dreamcast down through rabidly negative newsreporting, so that people thought it was over before it really was! I vividly remember how Ps2 magazines celebrated "the Death of Dreamcast" in a hillariously mean and infantile fashion! I also remember how I wanted to smack them up good!
They started a war, rather than upholding the previously far more healthy competition between gaming platforms!! So I respond to such negative nonsense, since it is to me completely unacceptable. And I don´t care if SEGA shot themselves in the foot by opening their machine to massive pirating of original software. Their machine was FAR better then Ps2, and to this day it remains so. Which was openly admitted by the press many times. Then, how come so many others wanted it dead? Couldn´t they forgive SEGA for past mistakes, so strongly sought righted through the release of a new and wonderfull machine? 4 controller ports, far better graphics than Ps2 and much better and easier gamedevelopement? What was all wrong with that?
Nintendo´s David Gosen have stated that each time a gamewebsite editor gets bored with the current generation of consoles, he starts wishing for- and attempting to usher in the next one. Even prematurely so, since there is at least 5 years of life in each and every console launched to market! He lamented it and bashed Microsoft, remarking that every time there is one person bored with a console, there are hundreds of new gamers just discovering them!
In my opinion, editors running big gameswebsites should NOT get away easily with sitting in the comfort of their own offices and talking consoles down, just because they are bored with it or have a liking for another and have the popularity that give such bashing power! There is a whole cult around the Halo 2 game right now, and one much alike the one surrounding the Counter Strike game. These are perceived as adult games, and people everywhere love to play them. But there is just as many who perceive them too crude and even outright evil with all that killing going on in them!!
There are whole countries who have woken up, and begun to legislate against such maliciously inhumane content in games! My point is that Nintendo have a right to exist, and not to get bogged down in all kinds of fanboy warmongering which comes from people genuinely wanting to kill them off because they DON´T like "tiku tiku tiku! Nintendo"!! How crude, how egoistic! There is this tendency to rally behind big brandname game products, big wellknown game companies, despite the fact that in many cases they aren´t better because they´re from somebody who is big! But they are perceived as such by many, and this unfairly drowns the competition overshadowing it in a most worrying way!
Take EA! How many crapgames have they released recently, which relies more on their brandname than actual gamecontent? Many! Shoddy stearing, crappy graphics, the same gameplay year after year, reflecting a most "relaxed" attitude towards gamedevelopement responsibilities!! But are they getting a fair amount of flack for it? No! Did SEGA for their games, and do Nintendo for theirs? Yes! I don´t wan´t to give you anymore examples. I can just express my own opinion. But I share it with many!
Matt Cassamassina said a couple of weeks ago that he is a "bad boy", who likes xbox a lot, and don´t mind bashing Nintendo, when he feels like it. He also joked about going over to exclusively writing xbox-content, instead of Gamecube content. There was PGC Forum members who expresed the desire that he would!
And I also think he should. With his hypocritical Nintendo attitude, he winds up hurting a lot of people who loves Nintendo, you know! Plus anger them! And get a lot of other people to perhaps alter their view of Nintendo! IGN is probably the biggest gaming website in the world, and so a lot of people see what they write!! Therefore I know they have influence over how people perceive a given console! And with such power, comes a great responsibility! Otherwise it is abuse of said power! It´s a fierce battle over the gamers right now, but if there are not clear and respected rules of conduct in the gaming press, it will all descend into a chaos of outright war which has nothing to do with healthy competition.
No positive: "I have an xbox, but I also think Nintendo makes great games. I might buy a GameCube someday." Instead it´s more like the negative: "I have an Xbox, and both Nintendo and Sony can go to hell because Microsoft is the best! Halo 2 forever!! Halo 2 rules!! Let´s destroy Nintendo, and then Sony!!" No kidding, there are definitely more people today who think like that! But I´d say that´s unacceptable!! I don´t care if you think I am judging people or something. I wish for a higher morale, or people will descend into warmongering consolefanatics! Then we can have a Nintendo Nation, an Xbox Nation and a PlayStation nation and fight world war 4!
You can say I go too far. I feel I don´t. I feel I am touching on a highly prevaíling, current issue which should be discussed! The issue of devious newsreporting which fuels warmongering directed towards specific consoles!!
Not shoved under the rug with arguments like "you´re paranoid" or "you´re too much". Healthy discussion expands awareness. In this case awareness of devious newsreporting which can alter popular perceptions, where more neutral newsreporting would be better leaving people to make up their own mind about the news!
So, it is a very delicate balance! That balance easily tipped, and which we can call "the Gaming platform popularity scale". Some gamecompanies, ones other than Nintendo, work in many ways to try to change the perception of which is the most "popular" platform, into their own direction! You can say that "of course they do that, it´s a big market for games." But I say: it is the way in which they do it which I notice and dislike! Both by putting the other platforms down through ordinary advertising, and through more devious means. Fanboy nonsense!!
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