So I used the word "link" as the title of my last post and that got me thinking about the character Link from the Zelda games and that got me thinking about the latest, twilight princess, which is coming out on the wii. and that got me thinking about the wii in general and how cool it is and how badly it is going to school all of the other next generation systems. why? because the other companies have lost touch with people and nintendo has retained it if not expanded it. and that got me thinking about all these other big corporations that have lost touch with people. an example of this is of course microsoft (a nextgen console maker) who's operating systems are continually problem ridden and more geared towards geeky programmers like Bill Gates himself and less like actual human beings, and then of course they introduce this big brick sized mp3 player that can actually freeze up or crash and it's supposed to be an ipod killer... unlike microsoft apple is actually in touch with what real people will use. sure it's all being consumer minded. they just want to make some money, but companies like apple and nintendo approach making money from the "lets make this as good a product and as accessable a product as possible in hopes it will sell more" angle whereas companies like microsoft look at it from the "lets see how little effort we can put into this product to maximize our monetary gains" angle. maybe companies like microsoft and mcdonalds do better than others from this approach, but i think a change in dynamics is going occur where the situation is switched and companies like apple and nintendo will reign supreme (we're already seeing this with nintendo and i hope to see it soon with apple). so pretty much there's my nerd rant for the day, actually for the month because i'm pretty sure you can only afford to do those once a month to avoid losing your humanity. actually make that bi-monthly... i already feel my artistic genius being crushed by nerdness... noooooo... back you evil fiend.. never enter this brain again...
zen master
2 comments:
only problem i have with the "wii" is that gay sounding name...
it's not gay; it's significant. wii represents we, as in we the people, all of us. and it's short and easy to say unlike playstation 3 which has to be shortened to ps3 to even say it normally or xbox 360 which is just a bunch of numbers and letters thrown together. the ii in wii also looks like people. and like that symbolizes that wii is for people. and wii is also a happy sound that people make. wiiiiiiiiiii...
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