Odds and Ends
* Seth Schiesel has a Wii story up at the New York Times. About how Nintendo's going after the mainstream and appealing to people who would never play a PlayStation 3 game. I've written about that here and here. Expect to see a lot more of these stories as the Wii launch gets closer. It's the story Nintendo wants to see -- and it's a story that they deserve to see, since they're actually doing something different.
* 1up has a feature up on games that have stood the test of time. But no Metroid? No Impossible Mission?
* Check out a Sony exec spinning the bad news coming out of E3: "The name of the game is not market share, it's how fast we can grow the industry - our ambition is to grow 15 per cent a year on hardware and software if we can. We want to try and double digital entertainment in the next five to six years. Whether we have 40, 50, or 60 per cent market share is not that important." Rrriiight. Here's Mark Singer describing the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle, which is the reason the PS3 will be so expensive, in a New Yorker profile of Sony chief Howard Stringer: "A showdown looms that Sony cannot really afford to lose." But come on, you don't need market share to win a hugely expensive format war! (Hat tip: Kotaku.)
* Brian Anderson, author of South Park Conservatives, wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal in defense of video games. At some point can't we all just agree that games are ok and move on to more interesting discussions?
* 1up has a feature up on games that have stood the test of time. But no Metroid? No Impossible Mission?
* Check out a Sony exec spinning the bad news coming out of E3: "The name of the game is not market share, it's how fast we can grow the industry - our ambition is to grow 15 per cent a year on hardware and software if we can. We want to try and double digital entertainment in the next five to six years. Whether we have 40, 50, or 60 per cent market share is not that important." Rrriiight. Here's Mark Singer describing the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle, which is the reason the PS3 will be so expensive, in a New Yorker profile of Sony chief Howard Stringer: "A showdown looms that Sony cannot really afford to lose." But come on, you don't need market share to win a hugely expensive format war! (Hat tip: Kotaku.)
* Brian Anderson, author of South Park Conservatives, wrote a column in the Wall Street Journal in defense of video games. At some point can't we all just agree that games are ok and move on to more interesting discussions?
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