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So Just What Is Nintendo Up To?

July 6, 2011 by Steven Savage

So, remember when everyone figured Nintendo was on their last legs? Constantly recycling things by releasing a new DS every five minutes? Showing no new ideas and obviously doomed?

If you don't remember, then you've probably blanked it from your mind. I certainly admit that until not to long ago, I figured Nintendo was lost and aimless. I know I had company – OK I hope I had company because I feel rather stupid at this point.

All of us who thought Nintendo was lost in a haze remember E3 2011. We remember the Wii U demo, with the tablet-like controller, and the interesting controls. We remember the doubt vanishing almost instantly as people were enchanted with this new machine and it's oddball control options.

It was like watching the Wii come out all over again.

E3 And WWDC – It Seemed the Same

June 11, 2011 by Steven Savage

OK, it may just be me – but this week WWDC and E3 kind of felt the same to me.

I don't know if it's a case of perspective. Perhaps I'm just used to seeing things from a "high-level" analysis point of view and I saw them as part of the same trends and patterns. But it didn't feel like a case of perspective; it felt like I was seeing two things that were way too much a like.

The new technology. The analysis of the trends by the pundits. The market talk. The discussion of repercussions. More new technology. More analysis.

The Big and the Smallville

May 23, 2011 by Steven Savage

Someone asked me why I didn't cover the end of Smallville at Fan To Pro. Smallville, after all was a decade-long television show based on comic book icon Superman, and probably sounds like something worth covering. That was a great question, and frankly, I felt it deserved it's own post.