Monday, 22 September 2008

Nintendo's subversive 80's agenda


I've just noticed that when moving from one active channel (say, a game) on the Wii to another (one of the internet channels perhaps) that I could have strolled across the living room and swapped out Excitebike for Duck Hunt on my old Nes is less time than it took to come out of one little window and into another. Clearly the plumber-bummers are attempting to see the dominant force in electronic entertainment dictate the speed of the world's gaming mojo at a specific, hypnotic and sinister pace.


There's nothing else for it - all right thinking people should trade in their Wiis for a PS3, because let's face it we couldn't trade our 360s in or we'd have no-one to play with online. Let Cex take the brunt of the Nintendonslaught, so Sony get none of your morally sound cash, and we'll free ourselves from the yoke of Wii tardiness.

That said, nothing loads slower than Burnout Paradise with the motorbikes patch installed. And where do the riders go? My disbelief remains unsuspended. Goodness me, have we grown unaccustomed to watching people come off motorbikes in games since Daredevil Dennis?