Nintendo aren't stupid, they know how to make money, this wasn't a mistake. It may not make us happy but I'm quite certain it'll make them rich.
This is exactly why you're a fanboy: you're interested in defending Nintendo's crummy business practices instead of talking about what would be good for players.
Normal people don't care whether or not this is going to "make them rich", they care about where is and is not a good feature. (Though, since you seem to love semantics to an almost Brazilian extent, one must point out that the people for whom this feature will make money are
already rich.)
The fact that Nintendo makes money on something is no magic get-out-of-criticism-free card. Look at all the crummy, crummy Pokemon 'filler' games -- Trozei, Dash, Snap, Channel, etc. They're almost all terrible games that Nintendo continues to make because they generate money. They don't magically become perfect because people are buying them.
Which reminds me, I’m also going to go with the DS over the PSP for the very same reasons I’m going with Wii; “Metroid Prime: Hunters” and also the fact that it’s the cheapest, with the exception of the afore mentioned educational handhelds. Also, Nintendo is releasing “MECHassault: Phantom War” for DS and the original “Mech” game was what got me into simulators like “Wing Commander” in the first place, it also plays GBA games and has a large Wi-Fi community.
I like the DS, on occasion. Animal Crossing was lots and lots of fun, and Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are going to eat up quite a few hours of my life once they're localized. I'd like to replace my stupidly large original one with the modern version at some point.
It still has all the same problems it did when it came out, though -- it's a weird gimmick attached to a GameBoy. Third party DS games suck because they're ordinary handheld games that have weird second-screen and touch stuff glomped into them. A lot of first party stuff runs into this, too -- you don't get the wide and giant variety of games that you did with the GBA. When a DS game works, it's wonderful... but a lot of them just end up awkward.
I've never liked the PSP -- UMDs were a stupid idea and there aren't any really great games... but as a fanatic WingNut, I now carry one in my bag whenever I go out. It's been strange.
Also,
please stop
bolding things
for no
reason.
Besides, apart from the “EA Replay” with “Wing Commander” games that I already own on SNES, there aren’t really any PSP games that I’m really interested in. Maybe in a few years they’ll come out with a next-gen’ version of PSP that’s as good as the PS2 and they’ll come out with a version of “Halo” for the handheld.
Yes, I'm sure Microsoft is really, really eager to port Halo to a Sony platform.
I was a little annoyed that Ghost Recon had only 2 player multiplayer, but really mad when Ghost Recon 2 had no multiplayer, while the same game on different consoles did.
Don't worry, Ghost Recon 2 was disappointing on every platform. (Hey, kids, work hard and unlock a picture of a jeep!)
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