a quick FYI I camped out for all 3 next gen systems Wii , 360 and PS3 and out of all of them the Wii was the only one I actually kep for myself and played that day, the PS3 and 360 for solely for selling at 6 times the price on ebay.
And what do I get ? Quite obviously Nintendo's worst mainstream / big system ever.
-mediocre launch
Lets see first off It launched with what like 8 games and all except Zelda were overall mediocre as a whole and yes that means Wii sports too. Excite truck was a bad tech demo, Wii sports has little to no depth yeah the boxing is a blast until it gets old since it isnt online. Not even a decent 3rd party game.
True, but other consoles didn't launch with anything really worth it either. My favorite game the 360 launched with was PDZ :roll: andZelda was superb, especially for a launch title.
:Gamecube Launched with RL2 9.4, and Wave Race 8.5 with Smash and Pikmin within a month .even Luigis Mansions was great for the 5 hours it lasted IMO
Sadly you're right on this one, but the review system has drastically changed between then and the time the Wii was released. Lower review scores were all but guarenteed.
Terrible Hardware
Last gen is the only one where Nintendo didnt have the most powerful hardware and even with that said GC held its own against xbox any day of the week RE4, Zelda tp, Prime, Star fox adv much ? And the Wii from a hardware perspective is just horrible. its barely more powerful than the xbox which means games like Alan Wake, RE5 , DMC4 , Assasin's creed , Unreal T 3 etc will never even be pausible on the system. And were only 2 years into this gen imagine in late 08.
Now you're onto something, but they needed to change. With 3 competitors in the "Hardcore" market, how would Nintendo have survived after selling the least amount of consoles last gen? They needed to make a cheap console that would appeal to everyone, and to make it cheaper they needed weaker hardware. Not that I'm complaining, I personally couldn't care less about graphics as long as the games fun. They're helping the industry in some ways by expanding the market now, and they're still catering to the "hardcore" audience with their older game franchises.
Continued stubborness to change
:lets see in 2002 Nintendo said gamers dont want online, now they're implying we dont care about HD ........ another misstake yes. Nintedo still doesnt have good console online, and HD is my way of life now . I even bought the Component cable for the Wii for Zelda and it still looked better on my 25 in SDTV than on my 32 inch olevia 720p.
I do think they're stubborn. It doesn't bother me that they didn't include HD this generation however.
3rd party lineup
:maybe it could be because the wii cant handle any of the good games which is why its getting stuff like escape from bug island... or maybe its because Wii games dont sell unless they have the Nintendo brand on them want proof ? RE Wii sales 331,618 ... compared to the horrible wii play sales of 2,087,623...... Its happening again and Nintendo doesnt even know it .
Sadly I agree with you on this. They need to secure some good 3rd party support, but the Gamecube didn't have it either, and that's why they lost last time.
Straight up Betrayal
:I honestly applaud the DS and Nintendo's sucess , which is the only reason why we have the Wii and not the Revolution with Zelda looking better than Oblivion BTW. Nintendo simply realized that the DS was selling like hot cakes doing totally new things and its competition with much better hardware , capabilities , and graphics isnt doing nearly as well ,
thats great but why the hell couldnt you do both ? Your telling me you couldnt build a 360 hardware with a 40 gig harddrive and the wii mote for $299-$349. Theres a reason this works on the Handheld market its becuase most of the major series DMC, Final Fantasy new games, Kingdom hearts, Half life, Unreal , etc DONT EXIST ON HANDHELD
but they trive on console and they push the limits of technology and hardware, which is why you'd basically ostrisized these big developers. Which is why the Wii doesnt get RE5 or DMC4 , but a RE4 remake, and RE Chronicles which will flop like RE outbreak.
So enjoy those non HD cheap development cost , cause Big developers dont give a rats ass about it when they know they're Bioshock will sell 400k the first week. What your getting is tiny developers making a flood of garbage games.
The Wii is in first place because people like me bought it at launch and soon sold it a few months after because from launch to almost last week there were only 2-3 good games on the system and all were Old Nintendo franchises anyways
I too wish they could've done both things with their console, and I do wish they would get some quality 3rd party games.
No new Ips/games
-360 has had - Kameo AA (possible franchise), Gears AAA (confirmed trilogy), mass effect probably AAA (confirmed triology I beleive), Crackdown fun game, etc
Ps3 has - Resistance AA (possible franchise),Warhawk AA (ok its technically new but it aint been seen since what 1998?), Motostorm great online , Heavenly Sword probably AA,
Wii has what new ips or games - Excite truck..... this one failed horribly.
Certainly a lot of new IPs other than just Excite Truck. There's Project Hammer, which I'm pretty sure was delayed, and several others. I'll try to reply when I can remember all of them but Nintendo's getting their share of new IPs as well.
Lazy Development
-Excite Truck was a $50 tech demo
-Wii sports didnt have online why ?
-Zelda made by one of the best developers in the world was uninspiring and was basically OOT with a wolf, wasnt nearly as impressive as Wind Waker
-the systems has what like 50 games rated under 6.9 already
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