Gaughan
Why am I defending Nintendo? Thats like asking why you defend the one you love.
Unlike most people here, I actually grew up with Sega, but I still had a Game Boy in my pocket playing Mario and Kirby. I also played my cousin's Snes if I was ever there with games like Mario World and F-Zero.

But thats in the past, it wasn't til I got my N64 that I felt the magic of Nintendo is its most loved games. I aslo have to thank my friends for also liking Nintendo. So since then I've been an Nintendo fan.

So why I defend them? I didn't grow up on them, but like Sega they make great games. When you play a game that Nintendo have touched you feel their magic when you wrap your hands around the controller. Its that buzz that makees me love Nintendo as developers and also as console makers.

I just want to stop everyone having a closed mind against Nintendo. What people normally say about their games are just...stupid. Like saying most Nintendo games are childish...so every Fire Emblem is childish? Every Metroid is childish? Every Advance Wars is childish? Nintendo is and will always be a family company. Its like Disney being non evil...it'll never happen.

I would love to piut more stuff down, but I'm sure you know what I feel towards Nintendo. Just one more point, Nintendo will be the reason why I am going to try and become part of a games company...hopefully Nintendo itself xp
Actually, its often the design of the games that makes them seem childish. The thing is, some of those games you have to be more mature to play than most M rated games.

Let's take Devil May Cry 3, one of PS2's best games right now. How mature do you have to be? You just go around killing demons in the coolest way possible while learning combos with weapons and guns.

Now lets take FE. FE is a game where you actually have to be mature to play because otherwise, you lose and then you get pissed off and go all F*ck this Sh*t this crap's retarded and its a horrible game. You have to be much more mature to think of some of the strategies you need for FE than for DMC3 (you only need to have someone over 17 with you to get DMC3, and thats only if you shop at a place that cares. Otherwise, 12 year olds can be mature enough to be good at it).

Even one game that people bash the most, Animal Crossing, is a game where you need to be highly mature to play. AC is a game you have to play almost dayly and it teaches you important values, such as patience and saving. Most people who bash it aren't nearly mature enough to play it (hell, most fanboys aren't mature and the same goes for a lot of teens. Its just that us teens that are with Nintendo tend to be more mature because we aren't violence craving freaks because of the games we play).