Good lord, if you haven’t updated your RSS feeds, do so right this instant. There’s this awe-inspiring article at the TimesOnline that just crumbles Nintendo’s bright future.
But I recommend you only give it a read if you haven’t read the hundreds of previous articles, blogs, rants, and public outbursts that have made the rounds since the Wii’s release.
Is this just the easiest way to generate traffic from the gaming community? It’s amazing just how often this type of story pops up and prompts pages and pages of “discussion.” I guess it’s too time consuming to write about something worthwhile or interesting. I’d even settle for an article that wasn’t a total waste of mine and the author’s time.
It is odd that not everyone faces this same degree of scrutiny. Microsoft and its Xbox 360 sit in a very comfortable place, nestled in the sweater blanket of public opinion if you will. For starters, you got pretty much anyone who matters to the core gaming audience relishing every slight made against the Wii, and then those same people making educated comments such as “The PS3 has no games.”
Maybe console sales are a realm where no one but those financially invested should bother. Should we really be sticking our necks out and play prophet, predicting which consoles and games will rise and fall?
The easiest thing to do is just sit back and play the games. If you can’t hide your arousal for all things anti-Wii, that’s alright, but you don’t have to behave like a modern day David with a degree in journalism, taking down video game Goliaths for page hits.
Let’s just play the games that we want to play, and ignore those that we don’t. Why dwell on negativity? I don’t work for Nintendo, so why bother commenting on their Japanese sales? Do I honestly understand every area of their business? Fluctuating Yen? Worldwide recession? I do, however, know that I want to play Punch-Out!!, and that’s all that should really matter. Discussing how Punch-Out!! fits into the continuity of the Mario universe is far more suitable to our hobby, not that I'd encourage that exact essay.
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