What is it with people who write about games blowing things out of proportion? It seems to be a trend lately, and it's one that we desperately wish would just go away. This time, the culprit is Keith Stuart of the Guardian Unlimited, who warns that anything could happen this winter, and he's whipped out the old saw about Wii potentially destroying the gaming industry. Where have we heard that one before?Also, apparently many of you are threatened by any sort of female presence in gaming. Did you get that memo?
The fact that the Wii isn't the most graphically powerful system is, according to Stuart, a veritable crime against humanity. How dare Nintendo step away from pushing the graphical envelope to innovate a new style of gaming! Don't they know that all we care about are pretty pictures?
The only thing we can find to agree with Stuart on is the fact that the Wii will probably change the industry. Of course, we tend to think it'll steer us away from knock-offs, clones, and ports for a while ... or at least, we hope that's the case. And if the Wii follows in the path of the DS, it's more likely than the gaming equivalent of nuclear winter.
