Here's a BBC video on the world of Nintendo

[Cmtz]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2687866789001698114&q=nintendo

Interesting.

[cyberfluxor]

Nice find. For some reason after watching it for several minutes, the streaming stops. Would be nice to find a complete video download for it to stash it so there's no breaks. :)

[Zing]

The whole 59 minutes of the video plays fine here.

[Pedro Lambrini]

I saw this a while back on BBC 4. It is unbalanced trash desperate to find the 'evil' side of the big N. The whole point of the series was to single out certain companies and just try to find dirt on them. It should all be taken with a pinch of salt...

[tom]

Hehe I remember that, the 'big' N trying to have a go at the BBC for showing mis-informed material....

[Graham Mitchell]

I saw this a while back on BBC 4. It is unbalanced trash desperate to find the 'evil' side of the big N. The whole point of the series was to single out certain companies and just try to find dirt on them. It should all be taken with a pinch of salt...

I've noticed that the British press does a lot of this kind of thing. Every "darker" rock band that England produced, from Bauhaus to the Sisters of Mercy to Curve, has been ripped apart in the NME and Sounds, usually in juvenile fashion where the interviewee makes a comment and then the magazine interjects something (in the final print) to make the subject look like an idiot. I wondered if that's what the BBC was going to do on this one, and I was right.

[evildead2099]

I saw this a while back on BBC 4. It is unbalanced trash desperate to find the 'evil' side of the big N. The whole point of the series was to single out certain companies and just try to find dirt on them. It should all be taken with a pinch of salt...

I've noticed that the British press does a lot of this kind of thing. Every "darker" rock band that England produced, from Bauhaus to the Sisters of Mercy to Curve, has been ripped apart in the NME and Sounds, usually in juvenile fashion where the interviewee makes a comment and then the magazine interjects something (in the final print) to make the subject look like an idiot. I wondered if that's what the BBC was going to do on this one, and I was right.

British press: So you guys call yourselves Paradise Lost?!? STOP DECEIVING THE WORLD! YOU ARE SATAN INCARNATE!!!!!11111!!!!

(Substitute Venom or Black Sabbath for Paradise Lost, and the joke still works)

[Daltone]

I've noticed that the British press does a lot of this kind of thing. Every "darker" rock band that England produced, from Bauhaus to the Sisters of Mercy to Curve, has been ripped apart in the NME and Sounds, usually in juvenile fashion where the interviewee makes a comment and then the magazine interjects something (in the final print) to make the subject look like an idiot. I wondered if that's what the BBC was going to do on this one, and I was right.

The writers of NME (and oddly all the people I know who read it) have, in my opinion, their heads firmly lodged up their own arses.

Back on topic, I gave up watching that report. It was all a bit too hyper and not quite serious enough for 5am. I'm sure that they said what amounts to "Mario made a shedload of cash" approximately one point four billion times in the opening twenty minuites. I remember The Money Programme doing a feature on the Xbox when it was first released that was really good. But yeah, I agree with the guy who said that this was unbalanced, poorly made, rubbish. BBC 4 seems to be a breeding ground for that.

[Tron 2.0]

x_x :hmm: x_x :hmm:

Interesting some what!?

[Graham Mitchell]

You know, that guy who was supposedly the Miyamoto "expert" was pretty unknowledgeable. The reasons he gave for the US SMB2 being the way it is are a little off. I was under the impression that NOA believed American gamers would be severely unhappy with the FDS game because it's the exact same game as SMB1, just with different levels. Marketing mistakes like that were the downfall of Atari, and I thought Nintendo was trying to prevent history from from repeating itself. Plus, NOA felt that the FDS game was just too darn hard considering the younger age of the average gamer in the US at that time.

And besides, SMB2 US has a few improvements over Doki Doki Panic. It's a better game, really.

[Poofta!]

i read almost all of this info in the book "game over"

it was great watching it though, thanks for the find.