I quoted this because of its precise, honest truth. Thank you, Jon. I couldn’t have said it better.

And i’m sure tons of people want to buy another version of the same console 3 years down the line for those absolutely brilliant reasons that aren’t actually worth it and don’t actually contribute much to the system. Good fuckin’ thinking, N’Gai. $300 you say? Totally sounds worth it for an HD port and disc tech nobody needs. Why stick with your decision to not whore out for pointless hardware when you can deliberately sabotage your own console’s lifespan 3 years into it? Good thing you get paid to figure this shit out.

So, let me sum up the problems here, according to that panel:

A) Oh my god, why aren’t all games like, superbig like Zelda? If you can’t force all games into being comparable to a franchise well-loved and entangled in the deepest roots of gaming, FUCK IT ALL THE SKY IS FALLING

B) The Wiimote is simple and intuitive. These are concepts which are TOTALLY lost on most developers, so this might cause problems.

This is basically a vague, unwitting condemnation of the industry. Nintendo’s biggest problem, according to all this, is the utter incompetence of everyone else, solvable only by holding everbody’s hand through the magical land of Nintendo.

From a GigaGamez article, excerpt and link below:
“Between the quick uptake of the console thus far and the continued viral marketing of the console to casual and non-traditional games, I’d expect to see a lot of games for the Wii in the coming yea…