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09/17/09
It's less powerful and has less features than the original xbox which came out 5 years prior. Wii added one new element, motion control, and that one feature alone woulda made all the missing ones irrelevant, BUT THEY UNDER DELIEVERED IN THIS AREA AS WELL.
I appreciate the push for a new way to play games, but they marketed and gimmicked their way up the sales charts until the release of the Motion Plus add on which has only somewhat justified this consoles existence.
Sega should still be making hardware, and Nintendo the one simply selling mascot games.
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Of course, they expanded and "casualized" the market to a great deal, which led to serious controversy amond a lot of veteran -, hardcore - or how you want to call them gamers, BUT IMHO it turned out less bad than everyone is whining about.
Take a close look and you will find a lot of good games for the Wii.
Even how they approached the NEW GENERATION from an technical/strategy-wise point of view was pretty smart IMHO (eventhough I myself wished they did it a little different).
What I'm talking about is the fact, that the Wii turned out to be "underpowered" for this generation (though made A LOT up for it with INNOVATION).
So one could ask himself WHY Nintendo didn't come out with a much "stronger" hardware in the first place.
I guess it's because they A) realized they couldn't make the wii available for 250$ with BOTH multiple GHZ prozessors AND motion-technologie back then, and B) another guess of mine, they kinda wanted to TEST THE WATERS with an inexpensive hardware-structure because they didn't know for sure how WELL their motion-sensing technologie would catch on with customers.
Certainly, Nintendo was brave enough to not follow the usual "road maps" during development (like Sony and Msoft did), but didn't want to risk too much (bear in mind that the Gamecube was last last generation).
So yeah, now that Sony has launched a cheaper, smaller "slimline" ps3 and Microsoft also cut their price, Nintendo is going to reduce the Wii to 199 to be prepared of this Christmas. And they will sell as good as always.
Then 2011 at E3 (my speculation) they will anounce the Wii's successor and again have the chnace to get ahead of their competion, since their experiment (the motion technology) slightly turnd out better than Sonys and Microsofts 10 year life-span plan.
I also believe that during the next 2 years' the Wii will see a lot more BLOCKBUSTER games before big N takes off into the next-next generation.
Gahhh... sorry for that much text!
09/17/09
Unfortunately just have spent 2 grand on a Vaio, Slim and a PSP, I should probably wait. My head is still spinning from that.
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I also really would like to get Madworld and The Conduit, regardless of all the haters.
09/17/09
Maybe if you didn't buy one of the most overpriced laptop brands on the market you'd still have money left to buy a Wii.
09/17/09
This laptop is balls-deep, brother.
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09/18/09
A. I said the brand is overpriced. I said nothing about your model specifically.
B. You spent $2000 on a vaio. I have a rough estimate of the crap which you purchased.
09/18/09
It was $1209, to be precise. The rest was PS3/PSP related.
For fuck sake, who cares. Troll elsewhere please. I'm done.
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I couldn't really tell you though, my best guess is that the ds sells like mad with it's current price, whats the point in losing money?
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Then the Wii isn't for you. Others might play it more than their other consoles. Just because "You" would only play it a few times a year doesn't mean it isn't worth 200 bucks. You aren't the only person in the world.
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Respect other's opinion. Plus, I don't agree with yours anyway. Best games of this generation? Are you kidding me? Lol
09/17/09
No. I like good games. Wherever and whenever I find them.
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Being positive about gaming is not a bad thing. It's pretty laughable that people are actually whining and bitching that I'm being very positive about there being games on everything and that there is a 100% chance of people enjoying games on every system and that they are worth owning. I stick up for the Wii just as much as I stick up for my PSP or my 360 or any other system I own.
The biggest tell on who you should listen to these days is based almost entirely on whether or not they jump straight to calling someone a fanboy for saying there's something good on a system. It's exactly the same as the "comparing to Hitler" argument.
09/17/09
That's where experiences differ. Not because they think there's zero games or none that appeal to a person, but because the games that are on the system aren't desirable ENOUGH to buy a console.
It's a matter of preference and a matter of taste. Saying the Wii is for everyone is ignorant at best.
09/17/09
Saying someone is "stupid" because they don't enjoy a specific game, or needs to have their preferences changed because they don't think something merits the money is, well, stupid.
09/17/09
There's no "vitriol" here until you guys all started jumping on the ol' fanboy bandwagon.
I will honestly say though that yes, I am very very tired of reading "Oh I'll only turn it on once or twice a year." or "it just gathers dust." It's basically a bunch of people spouting off memes and they've turned it into their own reality.
It goes the same way with the PSP. For the longest time, all you saw was "blah blah there's nothing on it. Sony should get the AAAAAAA material over here blah blah" when it was pretty obvious that there was indeed a ton to choose from.
People do need their preferences challenged though. Nearly everyone here does, 100%.
09/17/09
Not sure what this'll achieve.
09/17/09
Consoles just drop in price with time. Why is this so hard for people to understand? Companies have been doing this ever sense the freaking Atari 2600.
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I don't own a PSP after how long? but if they made a price cut you better believe I'd consider it. A $50-$100 price cut means a lot to some people, a difference maker you might say.
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i don't know why the word "asshat" seems to be flying around this thread so much.
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Not really, since both the $249 Wii and the $199 Wii come with Wii Sports. So, it's still a $50 price cut.
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$199 ain't bad for the full package alright.
09/14/09
Make it the NES bundle of today.
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It's about maintaining that lead. The Wii is already - by far - the most dominate console on the market.
Sony makes a push for market share, and the other companies will follow suit.
Honestly, that huge spike in PS3 sales was a multi-faceted affair that owed a lot do mistakes Sony has made in the past, and is as much a good thing as a bad thing (for showing just how much sales they had to make up, and just how far they still have to go).
09/14/09
I agree. The PS3 "finally" hit the sweet spot for pricing. Wii was already there.
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