Wii reward system?

The Wii seems to be the only console out there (it is) w/o a reward system. xbox360 has the acheivements and now PS3 makes all its' games come w/ a trophy reward system so why does the Wii not have one? I think they make games more fun and make people actually play more. On PS2 and such i never played on the hardest difficulties but now that you can get a reward for it i usually at least attempt to.

Do you think the Wii should make a reward system?

fmac,I know more about the 360 reward system so i will tell u about that, fyi i'm not saying they r coming out w/ a wii reward system just that it would b a good idea.

The 360 has 'acheivements' and every retail game has at least 1000pts you can obtain from doing things in the game. EX: If you beat Gears2 on Insane difficulty you get 150 gamer points. All the points you get from all the games you have played total up and equal your gamerscore. The PS3 does some trophy system but i rly don;t know ne thing about that.

a reward system gives a small purpose to gaming kinda. A lot of people who have a 360 and PS3 find themselves playing a game more often b/c they want 2 try and get 1000/1000 in it or they want 2 get more points/trophies than their friends. A reward system makes it a lil more fun.

that would be awsome it would make wii even more enjoyable

I'm not familiar with any reward system. Enlightenment is necessary.fmacraze

Achievements are pointless IMO. They reward players for doing long, repetitive tasks. I want to play the game how I want to play it.MasonB15

The Wii seems to be the only console out there (it is) w/o a reward system. xbox360 has the acheivements and now PS3 makes all its' games come w/ a trophy reward system so why does the Wii not have one? I think they make games more fun and make people actually play more. On PS2 and such i never played on the hardest difficulties but now that you can get a reward for it i usually at least attempt to.

Do you think the Wii should make a reward system?

If they make one then I would gadly take it, though it is not a must-have by any means.

Well if a reward was put in place, what harm could it actually do?. People can still play the way they want to and others can get more fun by going after the bonus'. Its 100 percent optional to activly go for the rewards deimos113

I don't understand achievements. It gives you points for doing stuff, but you can't do anything with them except boast about them, which means nothing. I'll stick with the upcoming Club Nintendo.Dark_Link142

It's all bragging rights; it's basically the new high score in video gaming.

[QUOTE="Dark_Link142"]I don't understand achievements. It gives you points for doing stuff, but you can't do anything with them except boast about them, which means nothing. I'll stick with the upcoming Club Nintendo.GabuEx

It's all bragging rights; it's basically the new high score in video gaming.

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

[QUOTE="Dark_Link142"]I don't understand achievements. It gives you points for doing stuff, but you can't do anything with them except boast about them, which means nothing. I'll stick with the upcoming Club Nintendo.clicketyclick

It's all bragging rights; it's basically the new high score in video gaming.

Sure, but you could unlock extra's with the tokens you collected. Dark_Link142

Didn't you like it in MP3?clicketyclick

I never said I dislike achievements or related functionality. I think they're useful for proving things to friends, or such like, if you're a competitive sort. They don't really add anything that I would particularly miss that badly if they were absent, however.

I don't remember what I said about Metroid Prime 3. I don't keep a catalogue of things I've said in order to make sure I don't contradict myself. If I did say anything that contradicts what I'm saying now, then I guess my opinion has changed since then. :P

[QUOTE="clicketyclick"]Didn't you like it in MP3?GabuEx

I never said I dislike achievements or related functionality. I think they're useful for proving things to friends, or such like, if you're a competitive sort. They don't really add anything that I would particularly miss that badly if they were absent, however.

I don't remember what I said about Metroid Prime 3. I don't keep a catalogue of things I've said in order to make sure I don't contradict myself. If I did say anything that contradicts what I'm saying now, then I guess my opinion has changed since then. :P

I'm not trying to catch you in a contradiction. I'm asking you if you liked it when you played MP3. They're used for more than just proving things to friends in that game. I thought they were implemented particularly well. I could do without the stupid friend exchange stuff, which is really just a marketing ploy, but whatever.clicketyclick

I never really actually used the achievements for anything in MP3, so I can't really say much about that end of things.

[QUOTE="clicketyclick"]I'm not trying to catch you in a contradiction. I'm asking you if you liked it when you played MP3. They're used for more than just proving things to friends in that game. I thought they were implemented particularly well. I could do without the stupid friend exchange stuff, which is really just a marketing ploy, but whatever.GabuEx

I never really actually used the achievements for anything in MP3, so I can't really say much about that end of things.

There has been discussion of this before and I think most people are for it. Rewards would make certain games more fun and would allow gamers to get more out of games, especially ones with shorter 1st player modes. It would not be much of a burden at all for developers either.firefox59

I cant wait tell the holidays for NoA to finally give us club nintendo. But i could care less about a reward system i have a backloggery so i kno what i beated nad completed so i dont want to hope for a reward sytem the wii will never get.

Uhhhhh.......Nintendo could reward with with Wii Points. Oh wait, that would make too much sense.

a reward system gives a small purpose to gaming kinda. A lot of people who have a 360 and PS3 find themselves playing a game more often b/c they want 2 try and get 1000/1000 in it or they want 2 get more points/trophies than their friends. A reward system makes it a lil more fun.Dawq902

 There it is. Replayability value. You get way more out of games this way and the developers know this. and it's just fun for a couple of reasons like beating your friends and it's an "achievement." feels good to be recognized (and have everybody else recognize) that you've beaten some game on "insanely impossible" difficulty, or got 9 million hp in a game or dealt out 100 million damage with a single attack. Nothing stops people from still setting there own goals in games. What other reason would I have for finding laptops and destroying tvs in COD4. 

 Thing about the wii is it has nothing to benefit from an achievements system. It has no competition. It's totally in a league of its own right now and people by every garbage game released for it. Not that they're all bad, but a good majority aren't good.

If the Wii had a reward system, I'd probably be happy because I like collecting things. 

The one SSBB used was neat. Instead of gamer points we got trophies, stickers and CDs. Too bad we couldn't show that stuff on-line though.

If the Wii is going use a reward system, then it should be like SSBB.

Achievements are pointless IMO. They reward players for doing long, repetitive tasks. I want to play the game how I want to play it.MasonB15

Acheivements are just guidelines. You don't have to complete them you know. You make it sound like they completely hinder a game.

I would enjoy an online point ranking system for the wii and I believe it would be a perfect tie in to how nintendo views the wii.

Nintendo sees the Wii as an entertainment homebase. Something inwhich gaming is just one fascet. We can see this concept in the development of News, Weather, and Photo aps. I believe as the system matures (in software and hardware) we will see a more communal style of interaction.

A point ranking system would do several things:

1.  It adds another element to the connected nature of the Wii system

2.  It gives user replay value to games. Giving people a reason to come back to single player games like Zelda. An often used chop at the Nintendo titles is the lack of varying difficulty. This would completely diplace that concept, but it would give advanced players a way to challenge themselves beyond the standard game play.

I think it's pointless.sneslover