I am totally disappointed with the Wii.
I purchased it 1 week before X-mas based on all of my friends either having just got one and wrapped up or wanting to get one.
*Once I got it - Wii Sports was cool. But it's entertainment value wore off quickly
Then I see Twilight Princess was a really talked about game. So I got that and Paper Mario.
Paper Mario reminded me that Mario in general stinks - maybe Super Mario Brother is ok but the rest seem like Disney games.
Twilight Princess...well Zelda looks like a fag to me... actually check this guy out.
The game is just stupid. However Twilight allowed WII to get some home brew on there.
Woohoo...I put on Sega Genesis, SNES, and Turbo Grafx games on there....These are actually more fun that the games I purchased.
So the quest for finding cool games goes on.
Cruisin was ok except but the controls ruined the games. If you sit up and not pay attention to the remote, you lose steering/
Then I got some Rig Racer game - I mean this is slow with pathetic graphics
So I thought maybe I was just picking wrong titles. I made the trek to Blockbuster to start renting games.
Then it was becoming clear - the games all started to resemble each other. Like everything was Lego People looking or for little kids. Ok articles confirm the Wii is not a blood and gore game system. But the games have no ZING
Articles by Gamerankings.com shows that everything I played got a rating of under 50% (meaning they suck)
Articles by team Twizzer point out some things that prove the Wii cannot get any better.
There is no way for an upgrade to occur without breaking older games.
The homebrew scene is making some strides to redesign the frontend and change colors but this is not going to do anything for future content on the Wii itself. It seems they (NIN) based everything on the controllers. The controller are nice but it seems engineers have problems programming them.
For a 7th generation console - it is missing a lot.
#1 Graphics...Wii is 480i (480p with special cables)... Now with some fancy footwork you can make some nice looking scenes but that can only take you so far...look at this
#2 Game ratings... it is a fact that the average game rating on the Wii is like 65%
"Well Wii sells more than PS3 and 360 combined." (http://nexgenwars.com/)
Yes they do, however it is the replay factor that needs to be looked at. I think most people by Wii becuase they are Nintendo and people expect that "oh its gonna be good" is associated with owning it.
However Nielsen Ratings show PS2 is replayed more than any other console in 2008
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2008 (January through October, at least), the PlayStation 2 was played more than any other.
According to Nielsen's findings, PS2 accounted for 31.2% of all console usage minutes measured. Xbox 360 was a distant second with 17.2%, followed by Wii (13.4%), the original Xbox (9.7%), PS3 (7.3%), GameCube (4.6%), and "other" (16.2%). The fact that more hours were spent playing the original Xbox than PS3 is, well, surprising. PS2's dominance isn't; last we checked, there were 87.6 bazillion of them in the world (give or take a few trillion).
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So...with my investment in the Wii - I see it is not going to get better. I am giving this system to my buddy whos got like 3 kids. At least I got out of the Wii arena with dignity and well before the party is over.
I purchased it 1 week before X-mas based on all of my friends either having just got one and wrapped up or wanting to get one.
*Once I got it - Wii Sports was cool. But it's entertainment value wore off quickly
Then I see Twilight Princess was a really talked about game. So I got that and Paper Mario.
Paper Mario reminded me that Mario in general stinks - maybe Super Mario Brother is ok but the rest seem like Disney games.
Twilight Princess...well Zelda looks like a fag to me... actually check this guy out.
The game is just stupid. However Twilight allowed WII to get some home brew on there.
Woohoo...I put on Sega Genesis, SNES, and Turbo Grafx games on there....These are actually more fun that the games I purchased.
So the quest for finding cool games goes on.
Cruisin was ok except but the controls ruined the games. If you sit up and not pay attention to the remote, you lose steering/
Then I got some Rig Racer game - I mean this is slow with pathetic graphics
So I thought maybe I was just picking wrong titles. I made the trek to Blockbuster to start renting games.
Then it was becoming clear - the games all started to resemble each other. Like everything was Lego People looking or for little kids. Ok articles confirm the Wii is not a blood and gore game system. But the games have no ZING
Articles by Gamerankings.com shows that everything I played got a rating of under 50% (meaning they suck)
Articles by team Twizzer point out some things that prove the Wii cannot get any better.
There is no way for an upgrade to occur without breaking older games.
The homebrew scene is making some strides to redesign the frontend and change colors but this is not going to do anything for future content on the Wii itself. It seems they (NIN) based everything on the controllers. The controller are nice but it seems engineers have problems programming them.
For a 7th generation console - it is missing a lot.
#1 Graphics...Wii is 480i (480p with special cables)... Now with some fancy footwork you can make some nice looking scenes but that can only take you so far...look at this
#2 Game ratings... it is a fact that the average game rating on the Wii is like 65%
"Well Wii sells more than PS3 and 360 combined." (http://nexgenwars.com/)
Yes they do, however it is the replay factor that needs to be looked at. I think most people by Wii becuase they are Nintendo and people expect that "oh its gonna be good" is associated with owning it.
However Nielsen Ratings show PS2 is replayed more than any other console in 2008
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2008 (January through October, at least), the PlayStation 2 was played more than any other.
According to Nielsen's findings, PS2 accounted for 31.2% of all console usage minutes measured. Xbox 360 was a distant second with 17.2%, followed by Wii (13.4%), the original Xbox (9.7%), PS3 (7.3%), GameCube (4.6%), and "other" (16.2%). The fact that more hours were spent playing the original Xbox than PS3 is, well, surprising. PS2's dominance isn't; last we checked, there were 87.6 bazillion of them in the world (give or take a few trillion).
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So...with my investment in the Wii - I see it is not going to get better. I am giving this system to my buddy whos got like 3 kids. At least I got out of the Wii arena with dignity and well before the party is over.
