Nintendo saves Christmas and core gaming ... how very Alanis.....

Nintendo's Four Mousketeers dueling for the coeurs de core

Well the irony does not escape me,that Nintendo, the company that supercharged casual gaming with the Wii , is in actual fact the goto place for your hard core gaming session this Christmas . 

By now your new core [i.e made for casuals] Halo Reach , Medal of Honor , and Call of Duty Ripp Off  4 hour campaigns have been finished , played backwards , one arm tied behind your back , blind folded and with friends shouting Didi Mau in their best Cartman... You may even be suffering from Kinect fatigue , its been a couple of weeks of jumping around now getting sweaty , come on confess it makes a very cool Minority Report remote , but you want to move that sofa back now don't you? To you core games fan the PlayStation Move , just is a very cool colour changing hypnosis thingy , a thingy  with out a killer app ,the most fun can be had if you  turn off the lights and wave it around imagining the only game that should have been released for it but never will be , you know with Jedi...  

The only place where traditional gaming , with actual game mechanics and skill  , is shocking to say the Ninentdo Wii.  I bet Fils-Aime is jumping on mushrooms  in 3d joy whilst listening to Alanis Morissette ...

For this Christmas , Kirby , Super Mario and Donkey Kong , Warren Spectors Epic Mickey bring the traditional skill based gaming of your youth to new generations . Games that you will spend over 20 hours playing , you will bore your friends and family with legendary tales of how you found that mysterious star , secret level , or just the joy you had playing a true video game as opposed to a 4 hour sub par action flick twitch shootemup coded by some Hollywood wannabees with egos to match and a sugar daddy publisher that really can't see its own doomed publishing model ( hint its the same as the likes of Origin , Sierra ,et al)

So whilst Sony and Microsoft go  a-courting new casual gaming debutantes  ,  this year it will be Nintendo and not Sony and Microsoft that are catering for the real core. Like I said , how very,very,very Alanis!

Nintendo you see JUST do video games ... pure video games .There is no video game in the interactive movie that just stopped spinning in your Xbox 360/Playstation 3 drives. 

So games fans  as you see a mounting pile of next gen games manure  by your consoles , put down your COD designer controller,get off your imaginary Kinect horse get ready to drink your Mii-lk , power down the Playstation Move/Light Hypnosis machine , defrost your wii mote , and get ready for some old skool .

Oh and if you are in UK get a nice Donkey Kong Tshirt when you pre-order from GAME . Zavvi or Shopto have the best deal for Donkey Kong Country Returns here