Perhaps you should play more japanese RPG, instead of always playing the same one.
At least that's what I get from what you're saying.

Oh god! I hope you don't play games only for the story though, or you missed a lot from this game including the essential part of the story actually, you only remembered the ending! Must have been a lot of bore throughout that game. Remember: games are about having fun, not looking at a story, which is for movies.

Good for you. I'm actually more and more disappointed by JRPG, the classic ones. And that's mostly because they become more and more like movies, which is not fun in a game (lots of cutscenes etc.)
But SRPG (mostly a japanese genre in RPG) are getting better on the other hand, and that's a good thing for me as that's my preferred genre.

That's about right if you forget Nintendo.

That's about right if you forget Nintendo.

Now look at, say Super Mario Bros Wii. Big name game, big name people. I don't know if they're par or below anyone in term of art, music and programming, but what I know, is that noone has been able to replicate what they do in decades, and they still went out and released this Wii episode that exploded in the charts while most observers where seeing it as a failure and a "lazy" port of DS game. So most of these observers, that included lots of game designers, seem like they're centuries behind.

I'm not sure scientists are the best entertainers. Actually, I'm pretty sure of the contrary. But what you say makes sense, as the first videogames were made by computer scientists.
Game design is good for school, but I don't think school and successful games go well together.
School is too academic to work for games.

I don't know, but games are not movies, so this is just nonsensical. Many of the best selling games from Japan have no story (and most come from Nintendo anyway).
This Nintendo company is a pain in the ass to many people, so much that unless they forget about them, most of what they say is contradicted by these small japanese company.

Surely you meant "people on PC".

Did you write this with a straight face? Do you even believe your own BS?
FYI Tetris or Pacman are casual games, made specifically to tailor to women in the case of Pacman (thus why there are so much colors in this game, and why everything looks not scary at all), and perhaps not intentionally for Tetris. If you're so old of a gamer, surely you rememeber the uproar about Tetris, which propulsed the Gameboy to heaven, with guys lamenting about Tetris not being a game (it doesn't have an end! The graphics are crap! Nintendo stole it from the Russian! GASP!).
Even Mario was considered not a game by PC gamers back in the day.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, and history repeats itself.

Seriously, get out of this rock you've lived under for so many years, and just check the line up for this year, or the past one.
Platforming absent from the Wii? Are you insane? That's where the genre is the best represented. I can give you adventure, and the Wii didn't have really good exclusive shooters outside of Japan for now. The RPG always were there, and several were out even this year with indifference from people like you who just ignore them. And you expect to be taken seriously when these RPG do pitiful sales because people actually are not interested in them?
There are two apparently good RPG in Japan now (Xenoblade is out, the Last Story is not yet) that will surely come to the west.
I will buy them for sure, but I'm sure your lot will ignore them and then come out next year saying the same nonsense about not having any nice RPG, Shooters and Platforming on Wii.

There are tons of them this year alone. But you won't look for them, you don't buy them, and yet you expect them to shine.
Monster Hunter 3 came out this year with a redesigned classic controller. You didn't even buy that since the last game you bought was Brawl, so years ago. So you lived under a rock since that Brawl launch, or you're just making silly excuses just to draw the illusion that you're rightfully bashing the Wii.

Of course this isn't really a big problem for the PSPGo.
One big glaring problem though, often overlooked, is that you need a PS3 to get your games.
Which is pretty stupid.

The only reason Sony could bring all those things is because they are a big international company with tons of cash flow and manufactures.
That's also why analysts always assumed Sony and MS would be the victors this gen instead of Nintendo, which still is a very small company compared to these behemoths.
It's easy to forget because Nintendo made profits like never seen before in this console generation, while the two others lost billions of dollars of money.
I think also that's why what Sony has done is nothing special (except if you think being a big corporation is special in itself) and can easily be brushed.
At the time, Nintendo was knee deep in lawsuits, especially from Atari, so it couldn't expand in Europe.

Actually, in Japan, they still haven't sold the first shipment of PSPGo.
I'm not sure about USA, but that's surely the case too, given the really poor sales in NPD.
And in Europe, like in USA, PSP is dead since a very long time.
The problem is not the hardware, they've sold 60 millions of them. The problem is that the primary source of revenue is the software sales, and PSP software sales are dead since a very long time, despite countless hits released on PSP, which all flop.

This "everyone sells its console at a loss" is a myth.

This was never a tradition, so the Wii didn't break any tradition. Nintendo is the older console manufacturer still alive, so is the traditional one, and they never sold their console at a loss, except the very first months of Gamecube because they quickly dropped the price before launch.

Sony is the big one that introduced this business tactic that was then followed by several companies or gaming division of companies which all met their demise. This includes Sega, MS and Sony.
You'll rightly tell me MS and Sony gaming divisions are not dead, but the only reason why is because they are big enough and had enough profit in other divisions to stand the billions of dollars they lost by using this tactic.
This tactic only works when you're the one with the biggest market: the one with the more consoles and who sells the most games. When you don't, you fail harder to the point of not being able to sustain it even one generation.
The net result of XBox is a loss of 6+ billions of dollars, as for the PS3, they lost as much as they profited with the PS1 and PS2 combined! Two generations of profits (due to being market leader) erased with only one generation of loss (due to not being leader).

I don't match any of your scenario.
I never had a PS2, and I bought a PS3 specifically for its PS2 compatibility. Actually, I bought a PS3 when they announced they were clearing stock of PS2 compatible PS3. Guess what, I still were able to buy old PS2 games new, and several PS2 games I bought went gold after I bought my PS3, like Persona 4.
And I play all my PS2 games on PS3. Even worse for you, I even play PS1 games on it!!!
Some people are more gamers than graphics whores, which is why FFVII PSN sold very well for example.

You're insane indeed. So the solution to piracy is to never sell anything that could be pirated? It's so stupid it's not even funny, if you wanted to be funny.

Except Nintendo isn't trying to lock users out of their systems, they're trying to lock pirates out. Nintendo is not stupid enough to let pirates have an easy way. People that choose that way have accepted to do it the hard way anyway.
People that like homebrew won't be really impaired, and the true pirates won't be impaired either. The ones that will be hit hard are the casual pirates, people for whom someone knowledgeable installed the necessary software.
These are the true customers that can be put back on the right path to buy the content they actually want. Pirates and homebrew users are not real customers to Nintendo if they don't buy any games.

And you're pretty wrong. The fact that he was posting in the Wiikly notwithstanding.
You sound like all these MS and Sony viral marketers that he talks about.
The fact is that he predicted nearly perfectly most of what happened in this generation of consoles, so it's no wonder people love Malstrom, but viral marketers hate him with a passion.

So you don't know his blog but you are quick to dismiss it and call people who read it "brainwashed" ? It won't work. Malstrom is really making life like hell to viral marketers.
It's funny to watch them recoil in terror at everything he writes.

Well, based on what I can see, you have not played any Wii game, and you are a typical troll.

Which is confirmed here : you haven't played any Wii game. Even Wii Sports, that comes with the console outside of Japan, destroys your argument.

This must be your 2 only correct sentences.

Sadly, it was true : only 2 sentences right...

We have seen plans for a next generation console. Kinect is marketed by MS as their next generation console, like a new launch that would give 4-5 years more life to XB360.
Even if that's only marketing, no console maker has any reason to launch a next generation console:
* We're in a recession, it wouldn't be a wise thing to do, especially given the state of the industry,
* That requires funds, and 2 of the 3 are in a "profitability" mode, Sony and MS console divisions lost countless billions this generation, they just can't afford to go on like this,
* MS lost more than $8.5 B (!!) on its XBox line across the years, and is only now slowly recovering some of this money back. The ROI of XBox is disastrous, and it would be worse if they were to make a new one soon;
* Sony Playstation division lost all the profits they made during the PS1 and PS2 era, with the PS3 only. Like MS, making a new console would put them back hundreds of millions in the red;
* The gaming industry is collectively in the red. If you remove Nintendo, they're all in the red this generation. Even if you add Nintendo actually
* Nintendo is the only one making insane (never seen before) profits in the gaming industry. Activision is the sole other making decent, thanks in part to WoW and CoD games. But Nintendo has no incentive to make another home console, when 3rd parties still have not embraced the Wii correctly, and while Wii is still selling like no other home console before it. For years, the gaming industry acted like they wanted the small Kyoto firm to die, and look at the small Kyoto firm just making the reverse happen, including knocking over two big companies in its way. It's just amazing to watch.

This experiment is interesting because it just lowers any chance of success for MS strategy that was based on "no more physical media".
Every successful download only game is getting a physical media release on console. Isn't it strange if the future is no physical media?