
05-05-2008, 07:16 PM
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Re: Why is it always Nintendo?
Well, I won't make the mistake of posting that particular phrase again, but my, and ALL our initial comments stand I reckon.
You sound like a fanboy complaining that his favourite corporation is being slanted. Nintendo are just a corporation, they exist purely to provide us with entertainment so that we spend copious amounts of money in their general direction, and often, they may actually be worth spending our hard earned cash on. But not only do corporations make mistakes, they often just plain try to rip us off. Nintendo has done that a few times I reckon, due to all the different Mario games out that aren't Mario Kart or an actual platformer. Mario Party, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis... Good games, mayhaps, but if that's not milking the franchise for all it's worth, I don't know what is. YOU have no personal stake in Nintendo's success, so you shouldn't be defending them so stalwartly. Being a fanboy for a franchise is perfectly fine (I'm sure most everyone on this board is to some degree a Zelda fanboy), because that's a franchise with an entire universe behind it. It's appreciation of a good story, or an enjoyable game. Fanboying over a corporation is simply being an unpaid salesman.
Any magazine that makes a comment that's anti-nintendo is either because Nintendo have done something worthy of this criticism, or it's a magazine that's practically paid to promote another console. Playstation magazines will slant Xbox and Nintendo, naturally, to make Sony's console look better. Xbox magazines will pick on Sony and Nintendo to make Microsoft's product look appealing. Nintendo magazines, the ones I used to read the most of, tend to actually be even WORSE towards the opposition than any of the former two. In fact, not once have I read in a Playstation magazine anything relating to Nintendo other than facts that are necessary to explain whatever the subject is - such as features about the history of Metal Gear Solid mentioning The Twin Snakes on the Gamecube, and if it did make an opinionated comment, it was probably praise for being a half-decent remake.
The Zelda movie trailer was just an April Fools gag, I very much doubt it was anything more. Otherwise, it's an awfully expensive way to insult someone.
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