I'm sure many, many people are sick and tired of reading about Wii bashing threads, so i am going to tell you something about the Wii and it's purpose in the gaming industry.
Let's start off with the most bashed thing about the Wii, the graphical capabilities. Yeah the Wii has Xbox graphics, yes better hardware will make some games do unbelieveable things, good examples like, Oblivion, Mass Effect, MGS4, Crysis, games that will never work on the Wii. But remember, the Wii might have loss something but it gained something back, the motion sensing controls. It is clear that Resident Evil 4 is better on the Wii, it is clear that WarioWare could only work best on the Wii. The Wii is unique, Nintendo doesn't want to go in the same direction it did last time, because...well Nintendo would be just screwed again, Nintendo needed something diffrent to succeed.
It is true that the Wii gets many lazy ports, but why the hell would you want ports on the Wii? It just ain't a good idea other than for some quick cash, for the exception of a few games of course. Just don't expect much from ports, because you need to build specifically around the Wii to get the best out of it.
Onto online, okay i agree with many that the Wii...the Wii's online won't be anything great, it is very featureless and phone numbers aren't cool. But the Nintendo doesn't need to rely nearly as much as Sony and Microsoft do with online, anyways, if your an online kind of guy you probebly own another online system also anyways.
Alright now onto software. This years E3 may have been a bit of a dissapointment to Nintendo fans, Nintendo kind of walked onto the other side of the park to talk with the soccer mom. But Nintendo doesn't care, Nintendo is catering to the casual audience which i don't at all see as a bad thing like some people are claiming. Nintendo are swimming in their pile of money right now. But it's not like the core games are gone, Nintendo is still pumping out Metroid, Zelda, Mario, Paper Mario, Smash Bros, Mario Kart, those games are still there. It is true that there isn't a whole lot of third party support, you ain't going to get Assassins Creed, Bioshock, Metal Gear, Stranglehold ect on the Wii, Wii exclusive owners are definitely missing out on a whole lot. But remember your still getting great games on the Wii, Nintendo ain't asking you for $600 they are asking for $250, go do the Wii60 or PSWii thing.
So a good summary is, Nintendo is doing something diffrent, they need to do something diffrent, they aren't asking you to kill a cat to buy a PS3 or X360 or go and kill a horse for a gaming PC, it's a cheap, great secondary console for the hardcore, whos thumbs hurt and want to start hurting their arms and a exellent choice for the casual gamer who have moved on from their PS2.
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