by Gabe Marble

   After reading this you may come to the following that I am a �Nintendo Fan boy� but please note, that I am going to take into consideration every thing, from Sony, to Micro$oft. Also, please note that, by after reading this, you might become very pissed off, but note, these are my opinions and views on the video game industry.

   First off, let�s start out with �quality.� Quality used to be the main focus in the game industry. Games had to be up to a certain standard, and consoles had to be durable enough to last for years, and YEARS to come. Now, Sony is allowed to make a poor quality console, with poor quality games, and they are regarded as the best gamming company to ever exist! O_o Let�s look at this. When the PS2 was first released, over 70% of all consoles sold were found to be �faulty.� Was Sony to blame? HELL NO! People just kept buying new PS2s. Today, Sony had claimed to have �sold� a good 40 million PS2s, but what people don�t realize is that over 30% of these �sales� are from people buying new consoles because they owned faulty units! Was Sony ever punished for their low quality parts? FUCK NO!!! Because people just can�t get enough of them. Only recently was Sony found of selling faulty parts, FIVE YEARS AFTER THE RELEASE OF THEIR CONSOLE! And their only punishment is to have faulty consoles replaced� hmm�. Now, lets look at game quality. The PS2 reportedly has over 800 games available for it. Now, while there are good games like FFX, MGS3SE, and some odd more, how many times have you looked at the shelf�s and seen Elmo�s adventure, of Ford Racing, and other crappy titles. Even if the PS2 had 300 quality games, that would mean that is has over 500 crappy 1 star titles that were aloud to be released! Does Sony get regarded as any less of a company for letting these games be licensed to their console? FUCK NO! They are still regarded as the greatest gamming company ever! Hmm�..

   Now, lets turn over to Microsoft. Now, I have to admit, that for the most part the XBOX has a decent library of games, probably a 70% good library. That�s all well and good, but again, let�s turn heads to quality of the console. At launch, 50% of all XBOX consoles were reported as faulty, and had to be returned. Stores even had numbers for you to call on the walls incase your console didn�t work when you got home! Now why the FUCK would you buy that console? I don�t know, but the public ate it up. Do you know why? HALO! That word owned the 20-year-old gamming world and helped Microsoft sell millions of consoles, despite of quality. Has M$ been found to have poor quality and get pusinished for it? FUCK NO! They still continue to sell thousands of consoles! Hmmm.

   Now, lets take a look at Nintendo. Nintendo has been making games for about 30 years, and has always been regarded as having excellent quality, both in consoles, and in games. In fact! (Not joking) when the Gamecube was released, do you know how many consoles were found to be faulty out of the 2 million plus the sold? 500. That�s right, 500. That�s less than 1% as compared to 70% hmm�. Now, Game quality. Nintendo has strict rules for licensing to keep game quality up. You wont find Barney�s butt Fucking adventure here. The Gamecube today features some of the worlds best games including, Mario, Zelda, Metroid Prime, ect, and game quality is at about 80% for the Gamecube. In fact, for every one Gamecube owner, there are 35 games sold, as compared to 18 for the PS2 and 7 for the XBOX. Now, what console seems to have the best quality? What has Nintendo got for this? They are regarded today as a �Childs� company, and are seen as being crappy, low, and not for the �real� public. What have they received for their Quality? A 2 million dollar lawsuit for 2000 faulty controller with sticky B-buttons! WHAT HAVE THEY RECEIVED FOR THEIR HIGH-QUALITY GAMES? A 500 thousand dollar lawsuit for causing seizures in kids under 13!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!? So this proves that low quality consoles with low quality games sell 4 times better because of adult appeal and HYPE! That�s right HYPE. When you hear Sony is going to make a new console that will play games, DVDs, hook up to your computer, get on the new, wipe your ass and do the dishes, you�ll fucking buy it! But, when Nintendo is going to release a new console, that, surprisingly, PLAYS GAMES! Fucking sells bad, is regarded as childish, and suffers Nintendo millions of dollars in Law Suites! Hmm, so Adult appeal, and hype, and features are what are selling consoles today. It doesn�t matter how much work and bloodshed is put into quality so we can enjoy the games we play and not have to buy 5 consoles to find a working one, and what do they get? NOTHING!

   Let�s now take a trip back in time to look at how Sony started making consoles. When the first playstation came out, it was regarded as being the most original and innovative console to ever be produced! Let�s see how much originality went into the development of Sony�s PSX. In 1994, Sony was hired to make a disk drive addition for the SNES. Sony was almost done with their creation, Which, BELONGED TO NINTENDO! When the project was canceled due to the low sells suffered by the Sega CD. What did Sony do? They took NINTENDO�S hardware, that�s right, stole it, and made the Playstation. Do you know what the PSX is? It is a mother board with 50Mhz of processing speed, and 2MB of RAM with a CD drive. My Apple computer from 1989 had these specs! Hmm� great technology huh? Also, have you ever compared a PSX controller to a Super Nintendo controller? Oooohhh, pretty different huh? How much did Sony spend making their Play station? 100 million dollars. Sounds like a lot huh? Well, ON AVEREAGE!!! Nintendo spends 100 million dollars PLUS making their AVERAGE GAME!!! That�s right, GAME, and that�s how much it cost to make Sony�s PSX! Wow, quality going on! What were the Specs of the PSX�s river, the N64? 100Mhz of Processing power, 8 Megs of RAM and a graphics card which out did the PSX�s 8 fold! So, the N64 was about 4 times more powerful than the PSX, and cost 8 times as much to make, and featured games like Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina of Time, Perfect Dark, James bond, and hundreds more that are still regarded today as some of the best games ever made! How many 64�s did Nintendo sell? 30 million. How many consoles did Sony sell? 80 million! HOW THE FUCK WAS THIS POSSIBLE!? Two words� Final Fantasy. FF was way more appealing to �Adults� than Mario, so, what sold better? Now, once again, does quality matter? NO!! FUCK NO!! If your game quality doesn�t appeal to the mass market of 25 year old males, YOU�RE FUCKED!!!

   Back to today, Nintendo is currently seeing games such a Resident Evil 4, and more RPGS than they have ever had the pleasure of having on a console, and are they doing better? NO!! Nintendo just reported a loss in profits by 43%!!! WTF??? Still, the question rises: does quality matter? That is a NO! Nintendo is currently changing their image to a more adult one, and is willing to spend 1 BILLION DOLLARS to PROMOTE their next console! Should they have to? NO! They should be able to be original and make great games without getting slammed, and sued, for EVERY FUCKING LITTLE THING THEY DO WHILE SOMY AND MICROFT GET AWAY WITH WHAT THEY DO!!

   My final word. In today�s world, games are all about adult appeal, hype and low quality. GTA: San Andreas has sold 5 + million copies, and HALO 2 has broke 4 million. In GTA: SA, I can fall through the floor unexpectedly, and while I have no comments to make on HALO, Metroid Prime 2 Echoes has sold how many copies? 1 million! WOW! Originality and quality sure paid off eh? The next time you are in the store, take a long look at what is there, and decide for yourself: what truly is better?

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