GodDuckman

I will certainly work on putting that together, but many of my gaming mags are lost to time (or my Mom's attic) as well as lost to the internet garbage bin, so I will need to do some digging. As far as sensitivity to criticism of Nintendo, yes and no. They've made some dumb decisions in the past that I cannot defend them for (and sales have reflected that), but one thing I've always had issue with is the constant labeling of Nintendo as for kids and their older fans as juvenile beta males that need to grow up, though that's more my issue with this idea that video games have to be this hyper-masculine experience and that anything that's marketed towards all-ages is automatically seen as insulting for the adult gamer to play. I can probably think of some good examples, not from video games, but from TV - G4 shows like XPlay and Judgment Day were VERY critical of Nintendo for this very reason back in the day. Either way, I'm glad this trend seems to have subsided, as millennial gamers that may have grown up with Nintendo and moved onto Sony or Microsoft are now having their own kids and moving back to Nintendo.

Yeaaaaah. Back in the GameCube/DS era basically every non-Nintendo exclusive gaming mag would let loose a non-so-subtle snarky comment in Nintendo's direction. One I remember for sure was OPM's review of Resident Evil 4 for the PS2, where they declared the PS2 version "kicked the GC version right in Las Plagas" because of the superior controls, widescreen support, additional content, and the fact that you "no longer had to play it on a silly purple lunchbox".

Hello! I'm also a newcomer looking for an article in the same boat. I believe it's from the March 2005 issue of EGM, but basically it's a preview of the release of the PSP and the Nintendo DS, and how Sony was going to completely overtake the portable entertainment market, and Nintendo would likely be forced to go the way of Sega, complete with cartoons showing the PS2 as a proud king with the PSP as a proud baby prince, and the GameCube and DS as old, archaic, and fat.