Only last week, the man-made-meat-man that is Reggie Fils-Aime was quite complimentary of his rivals, praising Halo 3 and LittleBigPlanet. As if to suggest that this kind of good nature won’t do, Reggie has brought Nintendo back to the smug train, claiming that Sony and Microsoft are now in a strategic trap with no clear way out.
"The challenge that our competitors have is significant. They’ve gone down the path with building expensive machines that they lose money on," lectured Ol’ Hamburger Hands. "They’ve gone down the path with games that are hard to develop. They’ve put themselves in a box. I don’t know how they’re going to get out of it."
Nintendo’s smugness bothers me a lot, considering the GameCube was a failure (despite its greatness) and the Wii was a lucky fluke, not an act of marketing genius. Furthermore, considering the lack of innovation seen in Wii games […]
Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back
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