jesterspawn

@45

Ignatius wrote: "...you might not like it, but don't bash people who do..."

Fitting, I think, that this line followed the gem in which you refer to the Bible as "That little 2,000 year old bedtime story."

A bit of controversy drops onto our hobby and suddenly the gamer community has been sundered? The first few comments were about the game and then gradually we all turned on each other, devolving into finger-pointing, name-calling and the belittling of peoples' religions.

As with any game, the decision to support it rests with you. You have the choice to purchase it (and thereby vote with your dollars) or to not. Whatever political/religious motivations may steer the inclusion of such content in a game, I assure you the gaming industry is still grounded in finances. Publishers, if not developers, will gravitate toward the things we all throw the most money toward.

I noticed there were four or five people somewhere in the 600-comment range who were a little confused and thought it was Nintendo fans that were bashing the PS3.

Those were evidently the four or five people who weren't watching Sony's press conference. Just to clarify to those people: It was a train-wreck.

When you're in the postion Sony was in before tonight, you don't have to do too much to steal the show. I just... Honestly, I can't comprehend what just happened. It's as if top-secret spies from Microsoft and Nintendo teamed up to kidnap all of Sony's top guys and replace them with moles wearing masks, just so they could use E3 to bury Sony.

Ten bucks says backstage the guy pretending to be Kaz peels his Kaz-face back for a breath of fresh air and cracks up laughing at the fact that the audience believed it was really him.

There's just no logical explanation. Did Sony forget to put E3 on their calendar? This was supposed to be easy... Instead, Sony is now the company with the four or five fanboys trying desperately to claim they're cool in sea of opposition. I bet the Nintendo fanboys are thrilled to see this role-reversal. Now you know how they felt during the last gen.

Just a reminder to ZeroCorpse and any other folk who work in game-related retail:

If Nintendo truly does what they intend to do, Wii won't be a product unknown to parents. Mom will likely have already seen ads in Oprah magazine and other publications she reads. Because Wii is a departure from videogame systems in the way we perceive them, it is likely that there will be cases in which parents will purchase Wii for their *own* game-playing without input from their children at all.

My 60 year-old father has already asked for a DS for his birthday in August. It isn't a stretch for me to think that my parents will own a Wii for their own home. Try picturing that scenario with a 360 or PS3.

The fact of the matter is that the opinion held by we the gamers regarding the name Wii doesn't carry the same weight that it would to Microsoft or Sony. To those companies, our voice would be representative of almost their entire target demographic. For Wii, those of us who discuss such things online are but a fraction of the targeted population. I wouldn't go so far as to say Nintendo has "given us the finger," but at some point gamers will have to accept the fact that this "videogame" thing isn't just for us anymore.