Lately I've been noticing how much Nintendo has basically screwed all us fans over. I remember the days pre-Wii (heh) when I would go to all the gaming websites and watch the same videos over and over, or read the same previews over and over, just so excited to finally wait in line for hours to get my hands on the seemingly mythical Nintendo Wii.
I got the Wii and with much anticipation I set it up and played through Twilight Princess. The whole time I was thinking how awesome it was and how awesome the Wii was.
I get done with Twilight Princess and the Wii sits in my room for literally months unplayed. I'm just thinking wait for the good games to come out, don't worry they will come out you just have to give it time. I was partially right, mostly not.
While you do have Super Mario Galaxy (easily in my top 10 favorite games from Nintendo) and Guitar Hero 3 (even if it is third party) there is really virtually no other games I see worth $50 for the Wii at this point. Next year I will have Super Smash Bros. and Mario Kart but after that, what?
And the DS... don't get me started on the DS.
I got one when Mario Kart DS came out, the red DS bundle. I played Mario Kart and AC:WW mercilessly. But then after that it too sat untouched for months until Pokemon and New Super Mario. And I put over 200 hours into Pokemon (I know I know) and I played it until my DS Lite broke in half (you think that is a joke but I can assure you it is not).
Now? I sits cold in my room, Scotch taped together, God knows what game in it, basically dead. I use it to check the time more often than I use it to play games.
I grew up on Nintendo. One of my earliest memories is Super Mario World. I remember at 6 going to Toys "R" Us and looking at Crash Bandicoot and saying "Super Mario 64 is better than this game". I remember sleeping outside of Toys R Us in the freezing cold when I was 9 with my brother and my dad in line to get the Gamecube. And most importantly I remember saving months of little scraps of money I could put together to make the biggest purchase of my life so far, the Nintendo Wii.
Nintendo is slowly drifiting farther and farther away from me and millions of other people just like me to, seemingly, everyone else in the world.
I now own a PS3, and very soon a PSP. I find myself at the forums of PSP and PS3 games much more than I do any Nintendo game.
I know most likely only 9 people, 9 people out of 6 almost 7 billion people will read this, but if one of those people was a loyal Nintendo fan in need of an awakening I would be satisfied.
Thank you Nintendo, for all the time I've spent playing all the classics. Thank you for all the fun Holidays when the only things on my wishlist were from Nintendo. Thank you for being a part of my childhood.
But most importantly, thank you for abandoning all of your true and faithful Nintendo fans so a few families around the world can enjoy each others company for 15 minutes every now and then.