Groan. Saying that playing Super Mario 3D Land is the "same" as playing the original Super Mario Bros is absurd. You'd do just as well to say that playing Skyrim is the same as playing Final Fantasy 1 because they are both RPGs.

Oh well. At least it will still have androgynous characters, awful voice acting, and an inscrutable plot.

The robots will be made in China, so we'll still have people bitching about foreign labor.

I definitely agree with that part of it. I don't mind that modern Mario effectively has an infinite number of lives. I actually think the game flows better that way, and you do still have to play well in order to proceed.

I thought AC1 was average, but that AC2 was absolutely amazing.

Even the original SMB had tricks that would earn you buckets of extra lives. The Koopa on the stairs at the end of 3-1 is legendary.

I bought a tube charger from Charge4All a few years back, and I love it. I have a few micro and mini USB adapters for it. Other device-specific adapters are cheap (like $5), and I keep the entire thing in a travel case along with my camera battery charger, and an international adapter when needed. It's tidy, and it…

That was just top-of-my head. And I deliberately left out most first-party titles to avoid any wharrgarbl about Nintendo consoles only being good for Nintendo games.

I agree — the last couple years have been a relative snooze, but that's partly because nobody played the first batch of great games, so developers went elsewhere. It was a snake eating its own tail.

There are games made on the Wii by all sorts of developers, and in all different genres. If any gamer thinks that there are no games on the Wii that "suit their fancy," then they simply aren't looking. At all.

I'm often bored by games I don't play.

Cue the string of uninformed "hardcore" gamers saying they sold their Wii because there were "no games" and it was "gathering dust" and they "learned their lesson" the first time.

Sure. But the DSi can't play Gameboy Advance Games. The DS could do that, of course, but it couldn't play regular Gameboy games. The Gameboy Advance could do that...

It's too bad that when you buy a Vita, Sony sends armed thugs to your house to forcibly break your old PSP. Because if they didn't do that, you'd be able to just play your old games on your old PSP, and then none of this would be an issue at all.

I see what you did there...

Which only matters until Loco Roco 4 comes out on the Vita and everybody buys it and forgets about the old ones anyway.

Stop making sense. It might break the internets.

Wow — this is officially my favorite animated GIF ever.

You won't get flamed for your opinion, but you're demonstrating a selective memory about how games "used to be." Sure, we remember when you had to start all over again. But I also remember the original Super Mario Bros. having warp zones that let you skip 90% of the game.

I love Mario, and I think Galaxy 1 & 2 are some of the best games in this generation.