I seriously need to get my mind off of some things so I'm going to do this instead of thinking......

Anyways why do people seem to equate Nintendo with the beginning of all things gaming? Let's see Atari started a lot of the current trends but they weren't even the originators. They got lucky with a lot of things. Atari got into molds and got lazy. They also tried to control developers and caused the beginning of 3rd Party Developers. Sort of like Nintendo trying to force developers into cartridges that they sold and controlled pricing where as Sony gave developers a cheap inexpensive format (cd.) The side scroller wasn't Nintendo's genious it was done before in Pitfall and probably way before then. In fact I would put Pitfall over the original Mario. Mario 2 was one of my favorites and that games wasn't even Nintendo's it was bought from another developer. Nintendo is always lauded as the gamer friendly company but sued Galoob over the Game Genie and kept the NES adaptor for the SNES off the market as much as they could. People seem to forget they got lucky with their deals like Tetris. The Tetris wasn't really a coup for them more then an idiot not reading the documents fully. So in a lot of respects Nintendo got lucky but so did all of the other companys when they got big.

This is what your not getting - MS=SONY=NINTENDO=ATARI

Another quick tidbit - Atari Entertainment System - Nintendo Playstation - Whom I wonder what similaritys we can pull from this one.

Atari did it first and a lot of what they did has been copied and still used to today.

What I get a kick out of is how I'm labled when all I have cared about is gaming. While you guys were claiming Sony had a surplus of bad games I was playing gems out of those "bad" games and having fun. People seem to forget games people clamor for, like Rez, came out during these "bad" periods. Seems to be that everyone forgets every major system has an influx of lots of game towards the middle of their life because, could it be that a popular platform is where the developers want to go!? Everyone seems to forget that the NES and SNES has an influx of bad games too just like Atari and Sony. I'm starting to believe the one book I was reading about Nintendo that hey really brainwashed a generation into thinking they were gods who should be worshiped and followed no matter what.............

well i exagerated a little bit but you get the point.

So when you say "Sony's trying to steal Nintendo's thunder" I say in all honestly it's BS because they've been doing that to each other since the beginning of time. One company has a good idea that sells and they all copy and do it. Look at how many GTA copys we have on the market right now. Do you really believe or are you going to try an even tell me Nintendo hasn't done it in the past and are continueing to do it.

How do we know that an official at Nintendo didn't try out the Dragonquest sword game and decided it was good enough to make a system based around that concept. If that's true he copied the concept and thus "Stole Enix's thunder."

Havn't you been getting what I've been saying for years? No company is better then any other. It's just funny that when I metion I don't like something Nintendo does to watch the "kiddies" come out and swear and throw temper tantrums. It's funny watching it and easy to provoke. But the truth is Nintendo has done things that drove gamers, me and others I know, away from their brand. And now Sony is doing it, and the cycle will continue. Nintendo could take over the market and I could care less, I just know for myself a single gimmick isn't going to sell me a system. If it does for you, more power that's what you like. I like Guitar Hero, but I know after a while the fun is going to wear off and go away. There are arcade cabinets I used to love playing that use gimmicks (steering wheels, enclosures) but I go back and play them again and don't get the same buzz I did playing them years ago.

But it's funny, to me this is like taking 3 random dogs off the streets and randomly putting a XBox, Nintendo and Sony logo on the dogs. Each one takes a dump, each equaly smelling like sh@# yet I bet some of you would say they smell daisys from the Nintendo dog.

Yeah I know you are going to say that about me and Sony, but the difference I know they are full of it and I can see what's really going on with them. Want to discuss it let's but no one seems to want to go that route. They just to seem to focus on my dislike of Nintendo. No one is really seeing why I don't like what's going on right now, and it really is a problem with all three systems. But I'll let you make my mind up for me.