Microsoft's blatant bashing of Nintendo... your feelings?

[Inkidu]

It was dumb, but come on, don't you think Nintendo bashes Microsoft and Sony? They just do it where no one hears them. It's one of those great hazards of the business, cos.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Who gives a shit? Everyone knows that the Wii is more geared to kids and casual gamers and that they're literally rolling in money because of that choice. I could call nintendo the worst thing since Hitler and they wouldn't care all that much because they have more money than god.

"Worst thing since Hiter." Did you really just say that? I'd understand if you said you feel strongly against Nintendo, but really?

 

[Harry Mason]

Microsoft acting like Frat Boys... Again...

 

[Magikarp]

I personally think the whole arms-race mentality of gaming corporation can go die in fire.

I totally agree with this; I think it would improve the quality of the consoles in their own areas, rather than lead to constantly trying beat the other consoles at their game.
However, it is ultimately about the money, so nothing can be done.

 

[squid5580]

Nintendo have success with motion controls. Sony and MS try to copy that success with Move and Kinect.


I love the hypocrisy.

Copy?? Really??? Umm you should take another look at the Wii and the Kinect. I don't see any Wii games with voice controls. Anyways Nintendo copied Atari because the 2600 and the nes both used controllers duh!!!!

 

[DustyDrB]

It's unprofessional.

But game companies acting unprofessionally seems to be in vogue these days.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Nintendo have success with motion controls. Sony and MS try to copy that success with Move and Kinect.


I love the hypocrisy.

Copy?? Really??? Umm you should take another look at the Wii and the Kinect. I don't see any Wii games with voice controls. Anyways Nintendo copied Atari because the 2600 and the nes both used controllers duh!!!!

Who came up with motion controls isn't the issue.

The issue is that a member of MS bad mouthed Nintendo even though Kinect is clearly a cash grab at the type of audience the Wii has attracted.

 

[The Grim Ace]

So much of this reminds me of when I was a little kid and seeing, well, this:

My is it feeling 90's in here again. Then again, it's been years of Sony and Microsoft saying things like that and it was as asinine in the first place as it is now.

 

[Verlander]

Microsoft need all the help that they can get, seeing as everyone in the world has a Wii, and Japan hate Microsoft.

Maybe they should try and launch a quality product? I have a launch Wii that runs like a beaut, and an original Gameboy, Gamecube, N64, SNES and NES, all of which have never broken on me. They don't get as much mileage obviously, but I can still enjoy the games of my youth.

I'm waiting to see how Microsoft handle the recent hacking sprees...

 

[Denariax]

Just wait until next gen when Microsoft takes the Sony route and gets 'hacked', plus make an X-Stick that has 50% Sony software.

 

[Jnat]

I lost all of my respect for microsoft during this E3. It was almost just Kinect... Horrible...

 

[squid5580]

Nintendo have success with motion controls. Sony and MS try to copy that success with Move and Kinect.


I love the hypocrisy.

Copy?? Really??? Umm you should take another look at the Wii and the Kinect. I don't see any Wii games with voice controls. Anyways Nintendo copied Atari because the 2600 and the nes both used controllers duh!!!!

Who came up with motion controls isn't the issue.

The issue is that a member of MS bad mouthed Nintendo even though Kinect is clearly a cash grab at the type of audience the Wii has attracted.

Is it?? So the Wii attracts people who would play a game like Mass Effect or Ghost Recon? Or maybe the Kinect is trying to expand to cater to both types of audiences like any and all consoles should.

 

[Soljourn]

I'm waiting to see how Microsoft handle the recent hacking sprees...

This is a very good point. I suspect it will be similar to the hardware issues.

Sony: "Our PS2 has no problems. What are you talking about? Obviously you're an idiot." (Quietly releases a new version that solves the issues people were complaining about.)

Microsoft: "You're right. We released the 360 too quick and it has issues. Here, let us do what we can to make things right. We're sorry."

As for the hack...was there a reason Sony waited a week to announce the PSN got hacked?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Nintendo have success with motion controls. Sony and MS try to copy that success with Move and Kinect.


I love the hypocrisy.

Copy?? Really??? Umm you should take another look at the Wii and the Kinect. I don't see any Wii games with voice controls. Anyways Nintendo copied Atari because the 2600 and the nes both used controllers duh!!!!

Who came up with motion controls isn't the issue.

The issue is that a member of MS bad mouthed Nintendo even though Kinect is clearly a cash grab at the type of audience the Wii has attracted.

Is it?? So the Wii attracts people who would play a game like Mass Effect or Ghost Recon? Or maybe the Kinect is trying to expand to cater to both types of audiences like any and all consoles should.

And it's just a massive coincidence that both Sony and Microsoft brought out a motion sensors around the same time and a few years after Nintendo?

It's a cash grab. Sure there few titles that will use the system well, but overall, you only have to look at the type of games (i.e. Wii Sports clones) on Move and Kinect to realise that they're trying to grab some of the money left over by Nintendo.

 

[internetzealot1]

Can someone link a video or transcript? I've been playing Pikmin all day, so I need something to rage at.

 

[Denariax]

I'm still believing it was a cover up for the Rebug issue so they could reprogram it to not give away free games. Calling it a hack is just silly.

 

[Laser Priest]

The "Big Three" are all idiots. I leave them to fight amongst themselves.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Who gives a shit? Everyone knows that the Wii is more geared to kids and casual gamers and that they're literally rolling in money because of that choice. I could call nintendo the worst thing since Hitler and they wouldn't care all that much because they have more money than god.

"Worst thing since Hiter." Did you really just say that? I'd understand if you said you feel strongly against Nintendo, but really?

And that is the Fox method of quoting. Read the whole sentence and don't just take a fragment out of context.

 

[funguy2121]

So during an interval at E3 there was a clip of an employee at Microsoft stating why gamers should think twice before turning to Nintendo. This did nothing to help Microsoft's conference in my opinion, infact it cheapened it if anything. His critical approach was unstructured and too colloquial, it almost seemed as if Microsoft were papping themselves a little bit about the quality of their show. So baring in mind Microsoft's core audience probably will not be transferring to Ninty anytime soon, what did you think of Microsofts' criticisms, was it necessary and did it achieve anything in your opinions?

This is like the guy trying to act cool after his girl has been taken away and he runs into her and her new beau at prom: pathetic.

Microsoft has the best overall system on the market, and they didn't need to copy Wii, and so far they haven't done anything special by copying the Wii. But Nintendo systems almost never brick, they're affordable and they will always always be around. Nintendo made their success exclusively with video games. Microsoft made their success with marketing and lackluster operating systems.

Not one of these companies should be acting like this. Every time I see one of these douches do this I know their company isn't yet done fuckin' up.

 

[GrimHeaper]

Microsoft is was mainly about computers and you see this by how much the 360 is built like one compared to the other two. Nintendo however is PURELY a gaming corporation their entire income comes from the gaming market and the thing that extend from that gaming. Also everyone more advanced=/=better something older can be more reliable and have less flaws simply for being more well made... like most of the old stuff from the US compared to our now throw away society or the SNES.