This whole notion that nintendo has changed is really ridiculous. If you look at the evolution and history of gaming Nintendo has maintained its philosophy throughout. Nintendo has always desired to bring gaming to the whole family. There were mature titles in the past-but by the standards of the 21st century they are not where we are at now. Yes they were revolutionary due to their time in gaming. Yes there were some great mature games but by and large the nes and snes libraries were full of shlock(yes you liked it back then as you now reminense to your childhood, but isnt that what all the kids are doing today with the wii who have never experienced video games before? I scratch my head when I hear people talk about nintendo like all the games they made wer Goldeneye or Ocarina. THey made some great games but by and large 80 or more percent of the 1000s of titles were very similar to what nintendo is doing today. But with technology other companies have picked up the mantle and are utilizing technology to its fullest to focus on those more mature games while nintendo is still putting out its classic "hardcorish stuff" in similar proportion as they did back in glory days. Its been two years and they have put out a zelda, metroid, smash, mario galaxy-that is about par for the course-so proportionately they are the same. Hardcore has never been their mainstay. Old timers get grumpy when IPs from their childhood dont come out every year but is that what they did in the beginning?
Now the powerhouses(xbox,ps3 focus on the mature games and nintendo fanboys soemhow think thats how nintendo used to be? No the powerhouses always put out 80% mature and 20%family while Nintendo has always done the oppossite.

@ Jim

His post seemed to be a general assessment of the site to me, and you know what? He's not exactly wrong. I don't know that it's something to get bent out of shape about, but yeah, it happens just the same.

Anyway.