BrokenControllers has a nice editorial up talking of the how the Wii deserves a chance. This echoes our sentiment as well and are often times tired of reading overly derogatory articles concerning Nintendo. We’re not asking for glorious praise of Nintendo in every article we read and we try to keep things very even keel not slipping into fanboyism ourselves while keeping the news related to the Wii and just keeping it fair.

Fair means realizing Nintendo’s successes and trials as a video game company against some harsh competitors willing to take losses on hardware even to compete. And time and time again, Nintendo has been more than successful profiting more and more off of their handhelds and consoles. Hardly a failure of a company and hardly deserving of the constant articles talking of “Will Nintendo Fail This Time Around?” or “Why Can’t Nintendo Get It Right?” that we have been reading for years now. It seems no matter what Nintendo does, if they don’t appeal to the crowd that enjoys nothing but racing games and “games with guys with guns” then they don’t get a fair shake.

It’s time for a change which will come by either outlets reporting things a bit differently on their own or suffer as the gaming base changes and in turn expects more positive or even neutral articles when it comes to Nintendo and their progress in the gaming world. It’s the overall negative outlooks on a company so successful that has brought so much fun to a great deal of gamers (and now, non-gamers turned gamers) that we find dismaying. From their article:

As I watched my friend play his PSP I was awed by a bigger screen and the most impressive graphics I had ever seen on a handheld console. My DS paled in comparison. Not to mention the fact that Nintendo had released less than impressive games over the past several months. I had grown impatient awaiting the titles that I had dreamt about in the winter. A sleek design and attractive features clouded my logic, and I made a decision that I would soon regret. I cashed in my treasured DS for the (supposed) top-of-the-line PSP.

By the end of that summer I found myself at the counter of my local game retailer with my PSP and sole game in hand. Without a word I handed over my handheld and motioned at the Electric Blue DS and Advance Wars: Dual Strike.

My brother did the exact same thing and eventually traded his PSP that he never played to me for a level 60 WoW character. I’m not sure who got the bad end of the deal there and I’m now looking to sell the PSP. And no, it doesn’t mean that simply because the DS was and still is very successful the Wii will be, it’s a bit deeper than that.

It’s more of the fact that so many folks underestimated the DS, were dead wrong on it’s and Nintendo’s future, and still haven’t seemed to learn the lesson that gamers are looking for more than technical specs and minor graphical upgrades. It’s these articles and outlooks from the “major players” that disgusted me into doing what I had heard from many people that would enjoy the debate, “If you don’t like how the news is being reported, start your own site with it’s own take then..”

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