Mario and Sonic is Sega's best selling game EVER and it's on the Wii. And that's just Sega. This is also JUST a first party list. Jesus christ..

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Spelling bees are serious sh*t...

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"Akeelah and the Bee" lol... one of the kids said it at the begining of the movie.

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You should be ashamed of yourself for that reference.

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But, since we're at it, how can a guy get a job as a tester?

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Na, there are hard brand loyalist here, they don't flinch even a little in these rough times.

Its actually sad, no one paid them to be that way, there are no real benefits to be brand loyalist, its all alucinations created by media and companies to get people buy their games.

Console wars may exist since the SNES era, but right now is the most pathetic, saddest thing there is, from what I get, people spend more time bashing the competition than playing games. Its becoming tired, and in the end we may all drag the industry in a way its not supposed to be.

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I guarantee if so many stopped with their asinine "more power means better games" philosophy, we'd have more 3rd party games on Nintendo worth shaking a stick at.

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I was a die-hard Nintendo loyalist from ages 2-18. I didn't drop my GameCube for the XBox when it came out because the XBox had better graphics. I dropped it because they'd ceased producing the RPGs and FPSs that Nintendo had helped popularize on their earlier consoles. Everybody on my freshman dorm hall played Halo constantly over LAN. This kind of multiplayer cooperation and competition didn't exist on the Cube. I still feel loyalty to the first-party products, but my Cube and Wii just sit there until these are released. And they don't hold my attention like their N64 counterparts did back in the day.

I've tried playing the new Mario Kart online; it's an exercise in tedium and frustration. I get the argument against "better graphics means better games," but fail to see any argument against the power of my 360's online community. Griefers and the subscription fee aside, I prefer the more reliable connection and the ease of finding people I like to play with to anything the Wiimote can offer me.

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If Nintendo had an online community like the Xbox, i'd like it a lot less. Maybe their online isn't perfect, but I perfer it to being on the recceiving end of a string of curses vomited up by a 12 year old boy.

Furthermore, Nintendo doesn't have any flagship RPGs, it's the 3rd parties who left and took their RPGs with them.

You know why I bought a Wii? It's this same reason I bought a GC and an N64. Zelda. I personally, don't like "community" gaming. If I want to play a multiplayer game, I'll invite friends over and make a party of it.

Your post is in fact a perfect example of what is wrong with people this generation. Everything is layed at Nintendo's feet. It wasn't Sony's fault when developers made a metric ton of bad games for the PS2, but for some reason no one is to blame but Nintendo when the same thing happens to the Wii.

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I don't see how having a more diverse and connected community could be a bad thing. Of course there would be the occasional dicks, but it's not because of an online community that they are dicks. It's just because they are inherently dicks.

I'm sure Nintendo would love to have the online community the Xbox 360 currently enjoys. The Wii's online offering is laughable, jilted, and at best, paltry. It really is an afterthought; Nintendo probably didn't have enough games on the horizon that could utilize online capability to full capacity, or they didn't have the resources to push a fleshed out online service.

The accessibility of online gaming is much more favorable compared to calling your friends over when you just have an urge to game. I'm in no way advocating that online multiplayer is better than same-room, next-to-your-buddies multiplayer, but to shun online gaming is at its sincerest an act of fanboyism.

The difference with the PS2 is that its metric ton of bad games were usually multiplatform, so the shit was evenly distributed. The amount of shovelware being dumped exclusively on the Wii is shameful. And where the PS2 had mountains upon mountains of great exclusive titles to make amends, the Wii, at this stage, does not have that luxury.

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And shunning "communal" gameing isn't fanboyism, it's personal opinion. I don't like working in groups, never have. I hated group projects in school and I am not a fan of playing team sports. Like wise, I don't like group gaming. Don't project your views onto the world as a whole.

And no, there are a metric ton of PS2 games that were exclusives. Don't believe me, go have a look. If they were really all multiplatform, then the Xbox and GC libraries would not have been so comparitively tiny.

@chungking.espresso: Perhaps that is how you meant it, but that was not how it was stated. You condemed Nintendo for not being MS. Learn to state your oppinions as oppinions, not facts.

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You also apparently hated spelling in school.

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@Trey:Xbox Live has cost Microsoft about 20 to 40 million dollars to bring to it's current state. They also have WAY more background in network building and can offset/underwrite the costs of hosting server farms and all of that. Nintendo can not even as cash flush as they are, the costs would be much, much higher.

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