Thursday, November 19, 2009

Double Trouble: A better Wii Year and Homebrew hoedown

Ahh, New Super Mario Bros Wii. Sounds like a great week for Nintendo eh? THINK AGAIN. This is Double Trouble


First off, according to Gamestop, the Nintendo Wii will have a better year in 2010 than in 2009, quoting them.

I think as we shared earlier, we always see and, for years, we have seen that Nintendo becomes incredibly stronger in the holiday season both from a hardware perspective and a software perspective, and clearly with the large installed base that Nintendo has, we expect it to be a very strong year for Nintendo software as well. In terms of commenting on future development on Nintendo, I cannot comment on that.

And I protest this. Why? The Wii is all about moral values in the form of Shovelware. I need that shovelware like I need hugs and kisses from Barney the Dinosaur. Folks, this mass amount of decent games on the Wii next year will kill the Wii off like it did the 360 and PS3. If you don't want the Wii to fall victim to that, buy more shovelware and let your brain rot over it while you yell and wonder why you even bought that title.

And second, Erik Estavillo is suing Nintendo over the new firmware that caused his Wii's homebrew channel not to function anymore.

Estavillo claims that update 4.3 disabled his Homebrew Channel, which he used to unlock characters in Mario Kart Wii. Plaintiff states that the only way to unlock characters in Mario Kart Wii is to purchase Super Mario Galaxy, which will unlock a single character in the former title. “In essence, Nintendo is forcing customers to buy another game to unlock one character in a different game.”

Exactly. This is a immoral injustice. Heck, what's even more immoral about unlocking Rosalina with a Mario Galaxy save is unlocking Rosalina by getting 1 star in all 8 Mirror Mode Cups. We're lazy and we're proud of it.

Oh BTW, this is the same guy who is suing Sony over being banned from the PSN Network and he's also suing Microsoft over the 360. This guy must remind me of someone I know. Someone who was this...grouchy.



Nah. Too happy. I was thinking Orly Taitz.

And that does it with Double Trouble. Nintendo, you're not just in trouble, you're in double trouble with Sony and Microsoft.

Works Cited:
GoNintendo link 1
GoNintendo link 2

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