Intellidick.com - Pure Insanity

(in protest of the name being changed from “Revolution” to “wii”, the word “we” will be incorrectly spelled “wii” throughout this article)

So, if I hear one more thing about the “amazing power” of the Wii, I think i’m going to vomit. I’ve had many gaming consoles over the years, dating all the way back to the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and Colecovision… I have pretty much owned all of the major ones and several of the obscure ones. I just don’t get the fascination of Wii. It’s a Gamecube with a trick controller! Sure sure, it has more horsepower than the GC, but not a ton.

The other thing.. have wii forgotten about Nintendo? Have wii forgotten about the days of the NES? When vendors were strong armed into selling more Nintendo. Does anyone remember that when Nintendo was in power, you had to agree to certain “conditions” to stock Nintendo products? Here’s a good one… you had to stock MORE Nintendo than any other competing product in order to stock Nintendo. If were a Sega shop, you had to make sure to have more Nintendo products on display at ALL times, otherwise Nintendo would pull your card. So basically, they got in early and got the big titles, then proceeded to break every rule of fair competition. Granted, they’re not the only ones… most companies have done it at one time or another. But still… practices like this should be discouraged by voting with our dollars and not buying things from people with horribly crappy business practices.

The other thing… violent video games. Sure sure… wii need parental controls in video games. Educated parents can disable all violent games in modern consoles like the X360. Of course, most parents don’t ever bother to look at all of those ratings and such that get shoved down my throat. So, I applaud Nintendo for their efforts in stopping excessive violence in video games, but hey, i’m an adult and I WANT MY EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE!!!! Don’t take away my right to be an adult.

So yeah, let’s not forget what the gaming world was like under Nintendo’s reign. Think twice and vote with your dollars. Rent games, get demos, don’t just buy everything b/c it looks hot on the TV commercial. Demand that game producers provide those demos and PROVE that their games are good by letting you play them. Shop smart people… these companies will OWN us (again) if wii don’t start shopping smart.

And really people… it’s a controller with a motion sensor in it. Come on now…

(The Intellidick.com blog will now return to the normal way of spelling we.)

Tags: Nintendo, Revolution, Wii, Xbox 360

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