LeBron James has easily topped Microsoft for the most outrageously, unintentionally hilarious press event of 2010.
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Real piece of work
Peter Molyneux pulls a Molyneux and throws Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg under a bus. Asshole.
Silver lining: Milo is shit, Microsoft has apparently let Molyneux know it’s shit, and it’s never coming out as a retail title.
Owned
Love him or hate him, it doesn’t matter: That Malstrom character owns some emailing idiot with his latest post.
Irony, revisited
One of the funniest things to come out of E3 this year is not the Microsoft Cirque de Soleil boondoggle, it’s the hilarious irony one experiences when two hardcore douchebags argue about which new motion control accessory is better.
To think, mere days ago these two idiots were no doubt both telling anyone who would listen how stupid the Wii’s motion controls were.
E3
Ain’t going, but I’ll wage a bold prediction, if I may: The 3DS steals the show, even as the “enthusiast press” lambastes the new system for a lack of games, strange design characteristics and a weird Nintendo keynote that seems kiddie to them.
The Great Irony
Nintendo titles are often lambasted as “kiddie” or “less important” by gamers who believe their tits and ass gorefest with guns action games are more mature. Hrm.
Inspired by Iwata Asks: Super Mario Galaxy 2
Double agent
Why does this quote, from a supposedly unbiased “analyst,” sound so much like what Sony has been saying all year about the Move?
“There is a Wii HD in 2010, it’s just called PS3 with Move.”
Surprise, it’s from bought and paid for asshat extraordinaire Michael Pachter. [via]
Fading minority
The vocal minority became even less relevant today, and there’s data to prove it. Good riddance. May they fade away alongside the grandiose, narrative-polluted “hardcore” games they crave so much.
Death knell
Nintendo is about to announce the first drop in profits in six years. Analysts and the enthusiast press are already indicating this development, to them, means the Nintendo party is finally, mercifully over, and that we can get back to the way things were five years ago. In reality, Nintendo simply made less money this year than last (keyword: made), but still managed to have profits of 230 billion yen. Total failure. Nintendo is dead.
History repeats
So the 3DS may launch earlier that expected. Which means we can anticipate that the usual enthusiast press Nintendo reporting cycle will arrive earlier that expected too.
You know the drill right?
1. Mild hype mixed with cautious “seems like a gimmick” backhanded compliments.
2. Official reveal crticisim about specs and graphical chops (will happen at E3)
3. Long period of doubt and smack talk as cutting edge hardware receives poor third party support
4. Complete and utter flip flop when Microsoft and Sony reveal copycat devices with larger processors.
Prove me wrong, you hardcore asshats. Please, prove me wrong.