IGN wrote:
US, March 28, 2007 - Oh, sweet mud-slinging, how we love you. It would be impossible to count how many times company reps poked fun at GameCube, just as it would be a difficult undertaking to calculate how many times former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi spoke ill of his hardware competitors. Nowadays, though, publishers rarely speak badly of Nintendo or Wii as both are overwhelming success stories.
But Microsoft's group product manager for Xbox and the Live platform, John Rodman, recently took a stab at it. According to a report by Daily Tech, Rodman insinuated that gamers would outgrow Nintendo's new console just as soon as their voices started to change.
"We don't feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing," Rodman reportedly said. "We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14, they want something else."
Whoops. We must've missed that memo. And so did our parents.
Covar wrote:thats a lie. all the prepubecent kids are all on xbox live calling me a nigger faggot.
I had one kid with a strange method of speaking English use Halo 2 for very bad karaoke. He wouldn't shut up despite everyone telling him to. Oh for a ban function.
IGN wrote:
"We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14, they want something else."
Wow. Adolecent teens playing with their 'wiis' will want to look for something more mature? The sexual innuendo is so thick, I don't even know the best joke to use.
I guess when MS saw the Wii kicking the 360s ass week in, week out on worldwide sales they figured it wasn't the fad they initially thought and knocked that 'Wii60 ftw!' crap off.
"We don't feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing," Rodman reportedly said. "We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14, they want something else."
Ive been wanting to pick a wii up for some time now. I'm glad MS was there to tell me that they thought it was for children before I bought it. As all of my purchases are directly influenced by MS.
If I had a pound for everytime someone has said that Nintendo make "kids games".
I remeber "back in the day" when kids used to argue at my school (yes, yes, including me, I was something like 13 -14) which was better, Megadrive or SNES and one lad piped up "I like the Megadrive best as the graphics are more serious". D'oh!
I guess any game that doesn't have 3d graphics, automatic weaponry, whores, blood and "bad ass" choons will be deemed as a "kiddys game" these days. I guess that while you own a Wii you also have to live with the fact that you'll never been seen as a "seroius gamer".
Matisfaction wrote:If I had a pound for everytime someone has said that Nintendo make "kids games".
I remeber "back in the day" when kids used to argue at my school (yes, yes, including me, I was something like 13 -14) which was better, Megadrive or SNES and one lad piped up "I like the Megadrive best as the graphics are more serious". D'oh!
I guess any game that doesn't have 3d graphics, automatic weaponry, whores, blood and "bad ass" choons will be deemed as a "kiddys game" these days. I guess that while you own a Wii you also have to live with the fact that you'll never been seen as a "seroius gamer".
Your friend was totally right, MegaDrive was A LOT better
Matisfaction wrote:If I had a pound for everytime someone has said that Nintendo make "kids games".
I remeber "back in the day" when kids used to argue at my school (yes, yes, including me, I was something like 13 -14) which was better, Megadrive or SNES and one lad piped up "I like the Megadrive best as the graphics are more serious". D'oh!
I guess any game that doesn't have 3d graphics, automatic weaponry, whores, blood and "bad ass" choons will be deemed as a "kiddys game" these days. I guess that while you own a Wii you also have to live with the fact that you'll never been seen as a "seroius gamer".
Your friend was totally right, MegaDrive was A LOT better
I never said he was a friend and coming out with stupid statements like that he was never likely to be. Gotta love those "serious graphics" though?
good times, good times
