[QUOTE="garland51"][QUOTE="Justinge3"] I sure have. Nintendo has realised that they can make tons of money off a console with motion controls, many family games, and last gen graphics. I highly doubt nintendo would make a powerful console next gen, seeing how much sucess in terms of sales the Wii is having. I just give up. This was the worst holiday season for the Wii. They havent realeased an AAA title for like six months, and that is pathetic! There are so many great games for the 360 and PS3 right now, I might not even be able to name all of them.
*NOTE* This topic is centered on the Wii, not the DS!
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I agree with you. I don't know about the rest of you, but in my honest opinion, either 360 or PS3 should have been the ones winning the war so far instead of the Wii. Here's why.
OK, when the Wii first started out, debuting, it looked like such a good console to buy. There were lots of hype about it, & such. Lots of people wanted one & are buying them out in stores, (which was back in November of 2006). Now, fast forward to present, 25 months later. The Wii hype is dying down. People admitting that they regretted their purchase of it, people admitting that their Wii's are collecting huge amounts of dust, & people admitting that they haven't even touched their Wii systems in about a year or so. What happened here? What happened to all of the hype that it used to have? Poof, gone, diminished. It's now nothing more than a has been, nothing more than a flash in the pan. Plus it looks like that people are starting to wake up about it. I'm quite surprised at the 40 million or so gullible Wii owners, thinking that they're going to get hardcore games. Instead, they've been fed on junk, except for 1st party games. The point is, the Wii ain't nothing more than a over-hyped, hardcore, gimmicky piece of junk. I'm so happy that I chose to buy myself a used 60 GB PS3 over it back in April earlier when I made the decision.
And what a right one that I made. Look at the reasons at what we're getting for a measly $250 for the Wii.
1.) Expensive Virtual Console prices for such great ancient games; not to mention the fact that you can't even carry nor WiiWare games onto another Wii console, which means that should your precious Wii system gets lost or stolen, or if you even sell the thing, then you're SOL in that category.
2.) Casual, Gimmicky crap that gets real old after a while (Wii Fit, party games, etc.)
3.) Horrible Graphics.
4.) Terrible online (Come on, a "friends code" system?).
5.) No Audio CD or DVD playback.
6.) Most of the 3rd party game selection are PS2 ports, as well as remakes of games that we already played ages ago. The good number of games comes from their 1st party games.
Now, both the 360 & PS3 has a real selection of 3rd party games, better graphics, better online, can play CD's, DVD's, & Blu-Ray discs (PS3 only). Plus just like Nintendo, they both have an excellent selection of 1st & 2nd party games. Plus the prices of what you buy things from X-Box Live (including from X-Box Live Arcade) & PSN doesn't exactly cost too much.
It's got to be real hard for those people who are Wii fanboys, especially when they don't either have a 360 or a PS3 to go along with it, or refuse to purchase either one of them. They can go ahead & stick to their precious console all they want, but they're the ones that'll be missing out on a lot of great stuff that are out on the 360 & PS3, & then they'll regret it in the long run. how Nintendo managed to succeed with over 40 million owners is beyond me. It is both ridiculous, & ludicrous.
this :D Has it ever occurred to you that there are people playing the Wi who aren't online posting about it? There are plenty of satisfied people gaming on the Wii, some of them new gamers and some of them veterans. I think you're kinda missing the point of the Wii. It's not aimed primarily at the vetern gamers though it still has many good games for those who call themselves "Hardcore". It's Nintendos recovery console, a savior after the relatively low sales of the gamecube. It's meant to bring in as many new gamers as possible and slowly but surely convert them to "hardcore" gamers, who will buy more games than "casuals". I don't think it's really supposed to be competing with the PS3 and the 360 for long-time gamers, but rather establishing a huge fanbase for their next console, which will likely be more balanced between "Hardcore" and "Casual". However, none the less it is still a very fun console to play for "Hardcore" gamers, but when it all comes down to it it's all a matter of preference. Oh, as for the reason you posted: 1. I wouldn't call them expensive, as they are all ten dollars or below. And remember, there are many new gamers on Wii that have never played the ****cs and so are happy to pay such a small price. If your Wii is stolen and you lose your VC games, it's no different then if they where actually games as the thief would have taken them none the less. Also, what would you do with the games if you where able to keep them after you sell the system that you can play them on?
2. You can't blame this on Nintendo. Their games that you call "Casual" are not aimed at you and the rest of the games are the idiotic third-parties fault, not Nintendos.
3. Only compared to the the 360 and PS3. Two gens back your jaw would have dropped at the Wiis visuals and you would have worshiped it. It depends on where you place graphics on your list of important things for a game. Personally, they are at the bottom of mine and as long as they look average or above i'm perfectly content. The only games with sub par graphics besides those meant to be that way (Wii sports and such) are again the idiotic third-parties fault.
4. You can still play with random people, it's just that you can't make friends with them or talk to them. I'm actually grateful for the latter and indifferent about the former. After all, you should have enough friends in real life that you don't have to play someone in europe or somewhere else. If i'm going to play with my freinds i just have them over at my house or vice versa. As for chatting, it can get annoying having to put down your controller and reach over to type every time you need something. Basics commands are enough, though once again Nintendo has yet to make games where such strategy and team work is needed online such as shooters. So once again we find the blame on the third-parties. As for voice chat, i'm rather thankful i don't have to listen to a curse word every other second.
5. So? It's a GAME console, not a multimedia device!
6. For the last time, that's the third parties fault, not Nintendos.
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