Wogglebeast

Damn, Patrick. Beautifully written and another reason why you're so good, and respected, for your work. Condolences to you and everyone who was touched by your father and Ryan. And if it means anything, I'll happily high five the shit out of you whenever you want.

Hard to find the words other than my condolences to Ryan's family, the Giant Bomb crew and his other, numerous friends.

I would care more about this if David Hayter wasn't acting like such a precious jerk about the whole thing.

You, dear sir, are the greatest. Amazing work.

I think another way Nintendo has been a victim of it's own success is the divide it's caused among gamers. Now people fall into the 'hardcore' or 'casual' crowd, even if you play both. The Wii bridged that gap and drew in more of the 'non-gamers', now called casual crowd.

Now with the terrible marketing, only the 'hardcore' crowd would bother to look up to see what the Wii U is all about and those same 'casual' gamers have no idea what it is or why they should get it. At the same time the 'hardcore' crowd don't know why they should care because there's no AAA titles on it. I feel that's why Nintendo is now playing the nostalgia card because it's the only way they can attract anyone to the console because Mario, Zelda etc. are the only thing which both audiences understand or care about.

Why are we getting technical specs before games? I mean I know that sort of press unveiling is not uncommon, it just continues the concern of the next Xbox being more 'media' based than game focused.