"As for Nintendo, I dont think they have INNOVATED in a long time."
I have a problem with this sentence. What is it...?
"I dont think"
Aha! This part. They haven't done because I said so.
"Ian you claim that EA's games and Nintendo's are reviewed with a double standard, that if Nintendo doesn't make enough changes they're bashed by reviewers and the opposite for EA."
"it's not in the nature for sports games to have big changes in gameplay"
That's the double standard he's talking about. IT's like, no matter how similar an EA sports is to the last version, it will always garner 8, 9, (god forbid)10 thereabouts from the reviewers. Which is great. No Problem. Peachy-keen. Fine and Dandy. Except how come they always put the tetch on Nintendo's being or for that matter any onther company's being whenever they feel a game is too similar? There's the double standard. And to say that it is not the nature of sports games to change is supporting that double standard. From what I've noticed, it is as if Regular Games, Sports games, and (I am gonna catch holy hell for this) RPG's all get rated by different standards. For Sports games, it seems to be okay to release a barely updated version of a game and chuck it out for $49, AND to take the unupdated version and slap a college license on it and BAM, new game, which the reviewers have no problem with. If it is a good game, hey that's great! But when they escape the scrutiny put down on other games, it becomes a problem. RPGs, heh, you can release a game that has ZERO gameplay at all, or if not absolutely none, a sports-game style update of a pre-existing battle engine, and still get 9's for something as superflous as the game's story. What I think is worse about this standard is that it seems to disappear when convenient. Like if F-Zero GX gets a slammin' for having a "bad story," yet if a game has something that can be considered an "RPG quality" story, no mention and no praise. However, in reverse, if you call an RPG out for being a crap game despite its text and by rating it against the standard that is used for other games, be prepared to get flamed.
Double standards are bad things.