Not really.

So many old, young, and sick people would die because they had no electricity, =(. 

[QUOTE="FoamingPanda"][QUOTE="Tylendal"][QUOTE="FoamingPanda"]

I think that the Wii is the single largest peice of garbage in this industry.  It fails and betrays consumers on an unprecedented level that makes the dubious marketing of Sony and Microsoft look like Saintly work.

It is the single most counter-productive, regressive, and terrible aspect of this industry.  It a poison that is causing a vast re-ordering of consumer values that butcher gaming as an entertainment medium and denounces the importance of traditionally imprortant aspects of gaming.  I bitterly hate the Wii.

Check blog for several posts, my critcisms are quite fair and valid.

Tylendal

One question that blows your argument to pieces...   "Why?"

Pandas are lazy.  See blog posts for the "why." 

Three major themes:

Reordering consumer values and shortcomings. How, and what makes this bad.

Butchering the functionality of gaming as an entertainment medium (poor hardware falls into this). How does poor hardward butcher the functionality.

Dubious marketing strat, expanding the market, and the consequences. What are the consequences to expanding the market, how do they outweigh the benefits, and what about their marketing strat is dubious.

I've seen your blog... it's the usual empty phrasing.  You use big words, but you are incredibly vague.

I'm sorry if the words are precise enough to articulate complex ideas that lurk below the surface of habitual valuation and consumer practices.

[QUOTE="FoamingPanda"]

I think that the Wii is the single largest peice of garbage in this industry.  It fails and betrays consumers on an unprecedented level that makes the dubious marketing of Sony and Microsoft look like Saintly work.

It is the single most counter-productive, regressive, and terrible aspect of this industry.  It a poison that is causing a vast re-ordering of consumer values that butcher gaming as an entertainment medium and denounces the importance of traditionally imprortant aspects of gaming.  I bitterly hate the Wii.

Check blog for several posts, my critcisms are quite fair and valid.

Magical_Zebra

Damn dude! You sound like an ex "Wii employee" that got fired or something. The Wii of course can not compete "grapically" with the PS3 or 360. The fact remains that it gets you "involved" in the games and is very addicting. I have read your blog posts and it seems as if you are a one man army on a personal crusade against th eWii. Sounds like you hate the Wii more than I hate the PS3  :shock:

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the PS3 at all.  It's hurting the industry in a different way, but...

Nintendo is the only company that is causing a REGRESSION in this industry and poses a grave threat to the quality, depth, and functionality of gaming as a valid form of entertainment. 

Personal crusade?  I wish.  There's not much I can do except vent my frustrations in a healthy way as I watch consumers destroy a great form of entertainment and send us back into the gaming stone age.  The only way to kill the beast that is Wii is to kill the consumer demand that feeds it before its too late (aka its aquired a new market that explicitly demands and considers gaming as a simple childish plaything).

[QUOTE="FoamingPanda"]

I think that the Wii is the single largest peice of garbage in this industry.  It fails and betrays consumers on an unprecedented level that makes the dubious marketing of Sony and Microsoft look like Saintly work.

It is the single most counter-productive, regressive, and terrible aspect of this industry.  It a poison that is causing a vast re-ordering of consumer values that butcher gaming as an entertainment medium and denounces the importance of traditionally imprortant aspects of gaming.  I bitterly hate the Wii.

Check blog for several posts, my critcisms are quite fair and valid.

Tylendal

One question that blows your argument to pieces...   "Why?"

Pandas are lazy.  See blog posts for the "why." 

Three major themes:

Reordering consumer values and shortcomings.

Butchering the functionality of gaming as an entertainment medium (poor hardware falls into this).

Dubious marketing strat, expanding the market, and the consequences.

Great, another ancient franchise devoid of both meaning and value joins the Wii library.

It should feel right at home, =). 

I think that the Wii is the single largest peice of garbage in this industry.  It fails and betrays consumers on an unprecedented level that makes the dubious marketing of Sony and Microsoft look like Saintly work.

It is the single most counter-productive, regressive, and terrible aspect of this industry.  It a poison that is causing a vast re-ordering of consumer values that butcher gaming as an entertainment medium and denounces the importance of traditionally imprortant aspects of gaming.  I bitterly hate the Wii.

Check blog for several posts, my critcisms are quite fair and valid.

....Another Mario franchise game?  God, this topic deserves a gimmicy response from a franchise that is just as tired and dry:

Real Score: 7.5-8.2

Real Value: 4.2-5.6

Agent Panda: Why, Mr. Nintendo? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep developing? Do you believe you're programming for something? For more than profit? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it a valid plot contingency? Or character development? Perhaps closure? Yes? No? Illusions, Mr. Nintendo. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble developer's intellect trying desperately to justify a franchise label that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the franchise label itself, although only a developer's mind could invent something as insipid as Mario Party LLXVII. You must be able to see it, Mr. Ninendo. You must know it by now. You can't provide a quality product. It's pointless to keep developing. Why, Mr. Nintendo? WHY? 

WHY DO YOU PERSIST?

and yet your points are but a pathetic wimper in the sea of forum chatter.

Bashing the Wii at this early of the stage is as ignorant and judgemental a fan boy of supposed intellect can accomplish. You are making crystal ball claims and speaking for a consumer base that is far beyond the scope of who you see and what you read.

You are not Jesus. You are not Buddah. You are no better informed than any whiner with a key board. 

So stop acting like you know what is, or isn't good for the industry.

We all know what good is for this industry from the perspective of consumers.  We've always known:  stronger hardware, cheaper prices, more developers, more intellectual freedom, more innovation, newer and bolder ideas, greater functionality, more depth, more game for your dollar.  I don't exactly need to look into a crystal ball and evoke a druidish chant to scrye what is good for us.  Nintendo has forced many of its fans to reorder, forget, or denounce these very functional, positive, and historically important values to rationalize their support for a product that works against their interests, fails to meet the benchmarks of this generation, and has butchered the functionality and scope of gaming as an entertainment medium.

Bashing the Wii for the horrible quality of its hardware, the marketing campaign it has employed, its mission statement, and its clear shortcomings is anything BUT mindless fanboy rabble.