thaddius' Console Roast 2014 Edition - Round 11

[KingVamp]

The poll was pretty much predictable.

 

[Veho]

To be honest, Wii Mini was a terrible idea from the start, Wii never needed to be smaller, it is the smaller than most Slim consoles.

They didn't redesign it to make it smaller but to make it cheaper. It's only slightly smaller than the original.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Why is the 360 leading this? lmfao

RRoD and Gold's unnecessary paywall.

Pay to use YouTube? Screw Microsoft!

They didn't redesign it to make it smaller but to make it cheaper. It's only slightly smaller than the original.

It's like Sony when they released "PSP Street" a cheaper version of PSP for the market who couldn't afford the better models or just wanted a new PSP for a low price.

 

[matpower]

They didn't redesign it to make it smaller but to make it cheaper. It's only slightly smaller than the original.

There isn't a big price difference between Wii and Wii mini here, I keep forgetting that price thing.

 

[omgpwn666]

Wow, this is a tough one to vote on. I never had a PS3, but I like the system, and for Wii and Xbox, I have them both and love them. RRoD was never an issue for me, not even on the older Xbox, but I always hated gold membership. As for the Wii, it's my least played console, I only ever played like, 4 games on it but it's not a bad console. I need to think for a bit. lol

 

[chavosaur]

Considering the poll now, I should definitely be preparing to argue my ass off come the 8th gen roast.
If you could predict what was gonna happen here, we all know full well how The Xbox One, PS4, WII U votes are gonna go

 

[orcid]

xbox 360
The PS3 and Wii have much better exclusive games. Also the rrod was a real desaster. In my personal opinion the xbox 360 is worse than the wii because you can play almost every game on the PC and the PS3. The only reason getting a xbox 360 is if you like FPS, you are into online play and don't care about all the PS3 and Wii exclusives. For these people it`s a great console and maybe even the best console of this generation.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

xbox 360
The PS3 and Wii have much better exclusive games. Also the rrod was a real desaster. In my personal opinion the xbox 360 is worse than the wii because you can play almost every game on the PC and the PS3. The only reason getting a xbox 360 is if you like FPS, you are into online play and don't care about all the PS3 and Wii exclusives. For these people it`s a great console and maybe even the best console of this generation.

Even though I like the 360 and its library I have to agree that the console was mainly made for shooters overall.

It also has some interesting exclusives here and there but nothing that's unmissable.

Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 and Rumble Roses XX must've been the way to attract the Japanese audience but it didn't work.

 

[Foxi4]

I know my vote won't change much, but I had to vote for the Wii. I like the system, but while the magic of the WiiMote and the comfort of a WiiMote+Nunchuck combo did not fade away with me, the games did. There's just not a lot of AAA games available for the system, mostly because the hardware is a generation behind the competition. It's still a solid system for what it's worth, don't get me wrong, but the 360 and the PS3 proved to be more future-proof for obvious reasons.

 

[PolloDiablo]

don't like the library + shit d-pad = Xbox

Wii.
Well I gots meself a new bathroom tile.

everyone tries so hard to make jokes about the Wii

 

[Foxi4]

everyone tries so hard to make jokes about the Wii

With a name like "Wii" you really don't have to try too hard. Then there's the "Wii U", what's next, "Wii Urself"?

 

[chavosaur]

everyone tries so hard to make jokes about the Wii

It's pretty easy considering The system itself is a joke ;O;

 

[PolloDiablo]

It's pretty easy considering The system itself is a joke ;O;

come on! you can do better than that

 

[JulietStMoon]

Wii.
Well I gots meself a new bathroom tile.

You wii'd all over your new bathroom tile?

EWWWWW, THAT'S SICK, MAN!!

 

[JoostinOnline]

It's pretty easy considering The system itself is a joke ;O;

That's a bold statement, considering it was the most popular console in every region of the world, and the third most successful home console in history.

What's your reasoning?

 

[PolloDiablo]

What's your reasoning?

"all the cool kids bash the Wii"

 

[JoostinOnline]

"all the cool kids bash the Wii"

...well played.

 

[JulietStMoon]

That's a bold statement, considering it was the most popular console in every region of the world, and the third most successful home console in history.

What's your reasoning?

Considering the ;O; included in his post, I doubt he was actually serious.

 

[Foxi4]

That's a bold statement, considering it was the most popular console in every region of the world, and the third most successful home console in history.

What's your reasoning?

It was definitely very successful sales-wise, but keep in mind that it was also the 100-million-selling dust collector. A good portion of those sales are users of the Wii Fit board, yet another good portion are casual gamers who moved on to smartphones. I can say that without a shadow of a doubt I've gone through practically everything the Wii had to offer that interested me and since then the system devolved into a Just Dance/Mario Party/Mario Kart jukebox used exclusively on parties and I'm willing to wager that many Wii's gather more dust than attention at this point in time. Of course I very well may be wrong, but the numbers speak for themselves - although initially very strong, software tie ratios of the Wii plummeted and as of today they're well below even the Gamecube.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/39708/

Even in 2012 you can see how software attachment rates were on the incline with the PS3 and the 360 wheras the Wii's steadily dropped year after year - there's reasons behind that. That's not to say that the Wii was a one-trick-pony - it definitely showed that you can make up for hardware inadequacies with clever design, but the magic wore off eventually. To be fair though, the Wii's score is surprisingly good all things considered and there's no denying that it was a great success for the company.

Just for the sake of consistency, fast forward to 2014 and the tie-ratios are as follows 10.24 for the Xbox 360, 9.14 for the PlayStation 3 and for the 8.89 Wii, so overall, owners of the other two systems bought more games on average than owners of the Wii. Of course this is from VGChartz, so god knows how inaccurate these numbers might be - I'd have to look through NPD reports to find more accurate scores.

 

[chavosaur]

These are the jokes people *cane pulls off stage*