Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO and president Jack Tretton disparaging Nintendo handhelds and calling them a “great babysitting tool” in a recent interview.

The asininity of his statement should be self-evident, but Game|Life has a piece on Sony’s recurring “Nintendo is for babies” line that is too great to not link.

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Gamasutra commenter on the exodus of players from FarmVille and other social games after Facebook disabled “notification spam” from apps on the social network.

If you missed it, earlier this week, Bill Mooney, vice president at FarmVille developer Zynga, said with a straight face, “More people have played FarmVille than have played Mario”. To which Winnie the Pooh replied:

See also: Other moments requiring Winnie’s intervention to deliver much needed sense to a conversation

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Team Meat’s Tommy Refenes, in the same interview where he reveals Super Meat Boy’s WiiWare ediiton will not include the “competitive vs modes” or “beefy co-op” initially promised when the game was announced for the download service last year. Presumably, the XBLA and PC releases will have multiplayer support, likely online.

Refenes went on to describe WiiWare’s file constraints as “frustrating” while praising the Xbox 360: “The Xbox, being the more powerful machine with no size limits, just allows us to do more.” To make up for the missing features in the WiiWare version, the developer has boosted the number of single-player levels from 100 to over 300.

When asked if he’s worried about the enhanced XBLA edition impacting sales for the less attractive WiiWare releases, Refenes danced around the question with the above statement.

See also: Super Plush Boy

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Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller on the iPhone and iPod Touch’s superiority over the DS, PSP, and other past handheld gaming consoles.

Space Invaders: Infinity Gene is great and all, but real talk, the game Apple decided to show off shortly after that quote was a touch-controlled Halo clone… from Gameloft. Everyone knows that game is gonna be total Butt City, Population: a butt on your iPhone that you think is a game.

[Via GDGT]

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— Robert Pelloni in his latest delusional post, speculating that a possible homebrew release for Bob’s Game could drive flashcart sales to unprecedented heights.

I hate to give Pelloni’s moonstruck predictions any attention, especially since other sites have caught on to his foolery and are already doing a fine job documenting it, but it really bothers me that he’s extoling his homemade game at the expense of other homebrew projects.

Speaking of, if you have a minute, make sure to check out 2008’s best DS homebrew, picked out by Chris Greenhough at DS Fanboy. Not a bad list!

See also: Bob’s Game trailer

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— Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, discussing the always effective strategy of competing against Nintendo’s handhelds with higher processing power.

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Robert Pelloni, the sole programmer behind Bob’s Game, an indie DS title five years in the making.

Though I admire that he has the motivation to create a game by himself, I very much doubt that Nintendo will choose Bob’s Game as a marquee title to showcase its new content delivery platform with, especially considering the uncompelling trailers released so far.

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