I will always agree that by and large Nintendo’s quality control is excellent and probably the best in the business, but to suggest that Sega is a benchmark to tell when a game is below Nintendo’s standards is absurd.

The reason QC is so great for Nintendo is because they NEVER take risks. Even with their new “innovative” consoles, the games they release are decidedly safe (Marios, Zeldas, Wii Play which is essentially a mini-game collection..). Probably their riskiest recent offering is Animal Crossing, but that’s about the extent.

Then you have Sega who consistently redefine games and genres. They always try to give gamers something different. Some attempts are more successful than others, and when they are successful they make a huge impact. Jet Grind Radio could and would NEVER come from Nintendo. Shenmue, Yakuza, Samba de Amigo are all examples of the payoff of Sega’s edginess and innovation over Nintendo’s safe and sure policy.

Thanks, but I’ll take a new, unbelievable experience over yet another fun but nothing-new Zelda or Mario game.

(To be clear, I’m actually quite a fan of Nintendo overall. I’m just a little miffed that Miyamoto would be so arrogant.)

I’ll not even start with Condemned, or Yakuza, Full Auto (they are publishing it after all), Valkyria of the Battlefield, Virtua Fighter 5 because you’d need more than two gamecubes taped together to run them. These are great games, innovative games, something you do not know how to do or then don’t have the balls to. All that you care about is profit or casual gamers and this in the gaming industry is a sad thing. That’s why your games are all subpar with SEGA and many other publishers. Yeah I said it. What can I say, at least with SEGA I have a choice besides the usual rehash of Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Metroid and Wii something. It’s true you have the money and the entertainment of millions of casual gamers, but you don’t have the satisfaction, nor the quality and creativity SEGA has.

I do wish that you were speaking about distinguishing between Nintendo and SEGA styles however. That would be something, perhaps even a compliment that you actually think SEGA is a distinguished foe. I somehow think this is not the case… I do salute you though, knowing exactly what makes a game sell. You just have to spit Mario on there and it will sell millions.
It’s true that Nintendo is here and SEGA isn’t but you know what Miyamoto? It wasn’t Nintendo who threw SEGA out of the ring, but Playstation. As far as Nintendo is concerned, they never won, they placidly sat there and waited for the war to end, shitting the same remakes over and over again. This seventh generation of consoles is a disgrace comparing to the fourth and fifth. A console who doesn’t have games, another full of FPS and MMPORGS and another one which constantly rehashes the same one trick pony. Repetitive much? That’s your fucking Wii.

Nintendo just makes their characters bland, generic, and babyish.

SEGA’s characters are more unique and are more appealing. They have great designs and look like a lot of care was put into them.

He really wasn’t meaning it as a slap in the face of Sega. However, it is fun to poke a jab at Nintendo, which Graham was doing light-heartedly, from time to time.

Also Christopher, Sega Nerds isn’t a straight news site, it’s a blog, which I believe offers us the opportunity to freely express our opinions along with providing our readers the pertinent information they come to get.

From all the feedback we receive, we’re never asked to stop writing opinionated posts and to adopt a straight news policy, which would be pretty silly if we did.

As for whether we’re professionals, I think there’s different levels of what a professional can be. I’m a military journalist and do Public Relations for the Air Force … does that make me a professional and one who’s capable of blogging about video games?

Nathan, Hudson, James and George are all at different points in their college career … a few have graduated and some are nearly there. Does that make them professionals who are blogging capable?

Graham is English, jobless, lives with his parents and plays video games all day long. I think that probably makes him more capable of blogging about video games more than anyone on the site.

We know you love us, and we do appreciate any feedback we get. Keep ‘em coming, gents!