We're in the midst of a format war with HD-DVD and Blu-ray duking it out and me wondering why the hell they can't get along. There's money to be made, consumers to be screwed and some Nintendo exec doesn't like it. Good for him.

Nintendo Canada's version of Perrin Kaplan (minus the woman part) Pierre-Paul Trépanier not only uses three names, but also has had it with these big multi-national corporations forcing their money making formats on me and you. Pierre-Paul says:

When I'm buying a gaming system, I'm focused on the games; I want to play games, and I think that's the primary reason why someone would buy a gaming system. I think forcing a decision on consumers would certainly not be part of Nintendo's strategy, because we want to get more people into gaming and we want to make it affordable. Forcing people to adopt a technology and a model that's proprietary and still not established is unfair to gamers.

A gaming system is for playing video games? *GASP* Brian Ashcraft

Format War is Not Cool, Just So Not Cool [Games Industry]

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