Wii MotionPlus, Nintendo’s final nail in the coffin for its competitors, may have been delayed.
It worked fine at E3, and several third party developers are pimping its functionality in their upcoming games, so what I think is happening is two-fold.
One, it was delayed,from spring to June. Two, IGN is once again whoring for page views. Success!
First the evil Toys R Us starts a used game program. Then, Best Buy restarts theirs in select markets. Now, eCommerce mega giant Amazon is going that route too with a new mail in service for used games. Golly gee, I hope the developers and publishers can survive this terrible affront to their way of life!
More seriously and with less sarcasm, here’s some free advice: Make games that are worth the ridiculous development budgets your games have today, and then, on top of that, stop charging $60 for schlock.
Meanwhile, Nintendo remains mum on all this because they make games that are supported by appropriate budgets and price tags.
David Yarnton, the General Manager of Nintendo UK, brings us back to a simpler time in the 1990s, when Nintendo was an arrogant jackass company, with this quote about holiday shopping and the DSi. He’s right though, ain’t he?
Says Iwata as he cackles maniacally about the DSi and how it is not competing with cell phones or that iPod thing. Bullpoopy! Nintendo’s unofficial long term goal is world domination, and that includes smashing all portable electronics under its brown Mario Bros jackboots.
And here I thought it was Sony that always ripped off Nintendo! Not so anymore! Perhaps Nintendo is just openly mocking Sony at this point. Who knows.
Nintendo has become so big and powerful thanks to the DS and Wii that it thinks taking on entire countries to fight the piracy movement is no big deal. Seriously, there’s a frakkin’ LIST OF NAMES.
New Japanese DSi colors lead me to believe Nintendo is secretly in cahoots with Japan’s eye doctors.
Bwah? An video game exec praising the maligned used game market? Hmm. Suspicious. Oh, it’s Microsoft! Something tells me Chris Lewis is bucking the trend because MS, smartly, is looking long term, and sees nothing but death in the future for brick and mortar distribution model. DLC, FTW!
Remember that recent quip about video game blogger irrelevancy? Matt Casamassina over at IGN takes back the crown with this gem about MadWorld:
“Usually, lack of 480p support can be credited to developer laziness,” writes Casamassina. “No way such a claim can be leveled at Platinum Games for MadWorld… I’m wondering, then, if the studio simply wasn’t aware that 480p is ‘kind of a big deal’ for a chunk of Wii owners”
Remember when a “chunk” of console owners cared about having fun with their games, and not progressive or interlaced bullshit statements like the one above? Oh, they still do, and this is just another out of touch games journalist with a shrinking audience? You don’t say.
And, maybe the developers were too focused on, I dunno, making a good game than worrying about the inflated self-importance of the “HD movement.” Just a hunch. It’s also in black and white. So, there’s that.
If you listen hard enough, you can actually hear the relevancy of today’s “popular” video games blogs and publications slowly slipping away.