You need a friend. Wanna be my friend???

you need medication. have you even played a mario game? The old 8-bit classic is still better than over half the games out today. That includes a lot of Sony stuff.

No kenzo it really is not.......i play them for nostalgia purposes but i don't get immersed into the game like I do with games that actually have a plot, i get bored after the first few levels b/c there is only so much depth those games bring. They are great games and I love to play them, but I don't get that satisfaction I usually get when i play Final fantasy or Vagrant Story.

you shouldnt play games for nostalgia but for fun now shut u[p and face the facts that Nintendo is going to outsell the PS3 witrh the wii now i have better things to do than try to talk common sense into your worthless brain

Seriously Kenzo, , your such a fanboy, and if your not, you should at least be their spokesperson, and then you must get abducted by aliens instantly. How da hell would u kno if dats actually a fact, unless you have an aunt named matilda and she can predict the future, and if you do, ask her what the winning numbers for the lotto are, thank you. *Smooches*

U call this short?
Wanna be my f4iend?

Leena of course you can be my friend.....Kenzo calm down man why can't you just admit something for once in your life?? You are guided by such blind fanboyism it makes me hurl. Nostalgia is fun in case you didn't notice the two go hand in hand when it comes to gaming. Lets face it, Mario is NO final fantasy funny how your such a jerk to everybody but last time i checked you guys only hold 15% of the gaming biz while Sony owned more than 50%...........One more thing, how the hell do you know the wii is going to outsell anything?? I bet you said the same thing with gamecube and we all know how that ended hahahahahha

Seriously

Jeez. Tough room.

There seems to be a need for some chilling out here. Me, I like the Xbox and the X360's potential. I think the PS3 will do just fine. The Wii seems to need some new games besides Mario and the like. But if it's what you like go for it and enjoy it. Hell if the new games available on it are good I might even get one, who knows.

AHHH lageasy, stirrin up thy kettle again are we??? seriuosly tho im kind of happy you bring this point up. My friends have always been annoyed that nintendo just keeps running to the same old characters for their games. It might be high time for nintendo to start trying out more new ideas, sending mario into space, or back in time, or or making him a doctor is starting to wear really thin. I'm not saying they should abandon their bread and butter completely of course, that's ludicrous. But at the same time they should not be living and breathing by samus, link, and mario. While many fans are content with that, that obviiously wasn't enough to rope sales for the gamecube. You would think nintendo would understand this judging by their great variety of games on the DS and game boy advance. All they really have to do is try get the trend going on their home consoles as well.

Don't get me wrong, I think the games will be fine for all 3, I just hate this innovation crap..........Innovative is a completely NEW way of playing........so just b/c Nintendo fans think they made up the joystick whooooooooooooooo cares? That's not TRULY innovative. I want innovation like a completely differ genre or game. Nintendo people are calling it innovative b/c they're still holding onto the past but that was 89 this is 2006 and the "innoavation" has gone. I truly think fanboys don't even know what innovation means.

the process of making changes to something established by introducing something new
the act of introducing something new: something newly introduced (The American Heritage Dictionary).
the introduction of something new. (Merriam-Webster Online)
a new idea, method or device. (Merriam-Webster Online)
the successful exploitation of new ideas (Dept of Trade and Industry, UK).
change that creates a new dimension of performance

If what these definitions say's are true, then I'm as innovative as Nintendo is. All innovation means is trying or doing something new.......but Nintendo has barely had any of their own ideas. I already squashed the "sony ripped off Nintendo" thing with patents and links to prove and now I'm here to prove that Sony innovated just as much if not more than Nintendo. I'll even give 360 some credit, the hard-drive and live thing is an AMAZING idea. the big 3 are great gaming consoles, it's dorks like kenzo who are just trying to be jerks and not see the whole light or spectrum.

if anything sega was more innovative than all of them. jet set/grind radio, seaman, nights into dreams. yeah they had that free flight thing down perfectly. problem is they were TOO innovative. not enough meat and potatoes, too much quirky desserts. BUt they are my favoritest company in the world. Chromehounds shall own.

I agree, I LOVE sega and still wish they were making systems.

You are of course right on most points, Lageasy; in decades to come, marketing strategy professors will teach students about what made Nintendo so successful, and it's this: Nintendo inspires affection.

Twenty years ago, Nintendo created Mario and Bowser, Link and Ganon, Samus and Mother Brain. It created several intensely compelling game designs accompanied by equally compelling narratives. Sometimes, when nobody's looking, I still get misty-eyed when I think of some of the great scenes in all the Zelda games I've finished (LoZ 1, Zelda II: Link's Adventure, LoZ: A Link to the Past--that was all I needed). All the characters, and the visual imagery; the heroic theme and setting. May the way of the Hero lead to the TriForce! OMG, I am SO saving my country with this dude. Did it happen by accident? Was it a fluke? It's heresy, but I think it WAS a fluke. If it wasn't a fluke, why don't they do it again? You don't seriously think they don't want to do it again; you don't think they wouldn't love to capture everybody's heart again. But they've forgotten how. That's why we see tripe like Pokemon and Nintendogs. It's shameful and it's ugly, but it's true: what made Nintendo great was lost a long time ago, and now they can only imitate themselves, hoping people won't notice.

All these new jacks going on about Mario and how hot they are for the next Link game--I think very few of them were around for the first games, so none of them knows that what made these games special was that they were different from what preceded them. They were NEW compelling characters and NEW compelling game designs. Well, what has Nintendo done for us lately? Kirby doesn't count; Kirby is a non-character and Kirby isn't even fun. Oh yeah, StarFox. Well, StarFox on SNES was pretty hot when it was new, but that was in spite of its characters, not because of them. Going the kiddie route was definitely the last nail in the coffin of that ill-fated series.

Nintendo lucked out with the NES, in my opinion in much the same way that Atari lucked out with the 2600; only Nintendo was run by shrewd businessmen instead of schmucks, so it was able to carry its successes from year to year, spanning decades. But its days of inspired, well-crafted, original character and game design are long gone. Now Nintendo rides on little more than its esteemed reputation; but for the majority of gamers, reputation just isn't enough anymore.

Consider--Sony had no reputation at all in the console gaming world when it made its Playstation, and look how easily it unseated Nintendo. Microsoft actually had a bad reputation in the computing world in general, and look how successful it was with the XBox. Reputation plays some role, certainly, but variety and quality appeal much more to discerning consumers.

So, since it's lost nearly all the licensees who used to develop exclusively for it; and since it seems to lack any will (or ability?) to create a new intellectual property of its own that anybody actually cares about; and since for several generations running, it's hobbled its console hardware with questionable design decisions that eventually scared away developers, Nintendo finds itself the lame duck trying to make a comeback. I give Nintendo credit for trying something new in the Wii--it's an odd pairing of their worst marketing concept ever, and maybe their most original game console concept ever. I hope it works. I want to see them rewarded for finally having both balls AND wits, at the same time; but when I look at their first-party lineup, my heart begins to sink.

Me? Fanboy? Fanboyism? That may be true. But don't deny that you're all ones too. If you want the truth yes I may be a fanboy but you people wouldn't be playing video games if Nintendo weren't there to save them with NES. History has a nice tendency to repeat itself and as Sega did Sony and soon Microsoft will fall. Know never to disturb me again!

sony beat sega, not nintendo.

Congradulations! (sic)

Now, seriously, I don't really care about the stupid "innovation" everyone's (everyone) is always posting about. I don't. Why? Because why should I care of which company's being innovative or which company is a copycat of who? Because it's stupid, I make my decisions on what's happening now, like what I want to buy. That's all. What I want to buy. Why should anybody care about who copied who 10 or 20 years ago! If I have the money and want to buy it then I buy it. Since I don't have money to throw around I have to buy things based on how much money I have.

Because I am not a die-hard rabid fanboy that you (Lageasy) took me for. Why you singled me out because of what I posted on a message board for a (now old) news story (that has been updated with a new related one) I will never really understand.

But that Message you sent me was pitiful, hopefully to the point that even you must realize how fanboy you must have seemed in your message based off of a single sentence. That and the unnecesary other...descriptions in your PM ticked me off to the point where I reported you and then added you to the ignore list (you're the first one).

If stupid is all you're going to post/send to me then do I need to deal with it? No. In your other blog entries (which I've read) you seemed like a rational, intelligent User. But unfortunatley I didn't see any of that in the stuff I've seen from you. Pointing out spelling errors in a blog post? Really low and pathetic. (lol liek omg! You missed the apostrophe in front of the 98, it should be '98 ^_^ dipsh**) (I 'm so cool insulting you for spelling and/or grammar mistakes you may have not noticed!!! )

Please Lageasy, "Fanboy" is the worst -ism.

Dude, Lageasy, eat some horse radsish and my name is HORSE_RADISH! I like to feel specail be my girlfriend!

Please Lageasy, "Fanboy" is the worst -ism

So Communism and Racism are not the worst?? LMFAO! Hmmm it's a good post but I think you need to take a chill pill dude. I think it might be you that is the fanboy on the fact that you had to make it a point of your argument to come posting your taint in my blog and now I'm stuck with your lousy post under my great one But seriously don't you think the same rational, intelligent person who wrote those blogs and the person who sent you that crap for an email was in fact NOT the same person?? This is the internet you know and unless you see my smiley face of approval that, in fact, was not me!! I let my friends use my GS name so when they're searching for articles I'll get some credit for it to higher my level.

Horse_Radish............I have nothing to say to you except for what I have already said haha.

please explain on how the wii remote has been done before.