TheCulturedRedneck

rampant fanboyism is simply a product of vane consumerism. the more people consider their belongings a reflection of themselves the more they will promote their preferences/possessions as superior. as irrational as it seems, an expressed preference for a competing product is understood by the fanboy to demean the image the fanboy is trying to construct for himself through their purchases.

i'm not immune (i've got a bit of a nintendo fanboy streak in me), but it is strange how much is personally invested by some in corporate image/brands.

there isn't an andy warhol of fanboyism yet... the attitude is so noxious to other fanboys with only marginally different tastes that it's doubtful one could emerge. there are a few folks that hold sway over many of them though... linus torvalds, matt cassamassina, harry knowles, steve jobs, wil wheaton, joss whedon, etc.

their marketing exec never saw Nintendo ON? Yeouch.

The best thing nintendo could ever do for itself is to give the author of that vid a few grand to re-engineer a 3 minute version of Nintendo ON for the revolution (abbreviated intro of old nintendo consoles, the whole castle-scaling sequence, followed by a demo of the rev's operation in a similar style).

back it w/high production value and have that sucker show as a bona-fide preview to every big movie between now and november.

here's a link (same as the one given in post #24) if you're not familiar w/Nintendo ON: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2863158454693395534&q=nintendo+on

mario too mainstream?

i think the paying Bono to push ipods pretty much sealed "mainstream" as Apple's quality of choice.

My top 5 gaffes for 2005:

- Star Wars Galaxies re-org
- Twilight Princess delay despite hype from e3 and misleading more than a few people into buying a cube thinking this would be a holiday release
- N-gage QD Silver launch, trying to breath new life into this platform was a big mistake... should have let it die in 04 or sooner
- Senator Clinton taking an opportunistic jab at the industry. She's silent on the war, economy, and the GWOT... yet she uses Hot Coffee to get her name in the papers. At least Lieberman seemed sincere.
- Madden 06 disappointments... have to agree with the article on this. the hype created on this was almost certainly deliberately misleading, though i'm not quite sure why so many buy these warmed-over versions each year anyway.