(02-22-2009 06:27 AM)Guilmon and a shotgun Wrote: Lets be honest, it's not a console to be taken seriously and Nintendo advertise this PLAINLY in their commercials for the Wii; you see families gathered around their televisions, giggling and laughing as they play Mario Kart and there's absolutely no sense of hostility between them, no emotional lust for winning the game. Without these, there's no gamer ego satisfaction from achieving the object of online matches.
So just because in commercials, there's no hard, hostile competition, that means Wii isn't a 'gamer' system? I never knew that gaming was all about being hostile and wanting badly to win.
Wii's sales pitch is more towards EVERYONE, rather than just gamers, which is why you see families, and ages ranging from young to very old, in the commercials.
(02-22-2009 06:27 AM)Guilmon and a shotgun Wrote: Furthermore, the controllers are just laughable. We've been using buttons, triggers, bumpers, thumbsticks and joysticks for more then a decade now and both Microsoft and Sony have recognized this as the standard format of controllers (just as their is a standard layout of car controls). You can't expect people who've used hammers all their life to use a screwdriver properly. True, we've had some experience of movement technology (back in 1989 when the Powerglove came out, and that sucked too!)
So? Does that mean Nintendo can't be different? This change is obviously successful, seeing as Wii is outselling 360 and PS3, combined.
Power Glove was just a failure because it was too ahead of it's time, and it was a lot easier to just use a regular controller. It was more like: "Do you want to use a 2-button and D-Pad controller to play NES, or do you want to use a huge panel of buttons to play NES?" type of thing.
This was also the time when TONS of NES accessories were coming out, and over half of them sucked.
Seriously, what's with all the hate for Wii? Just because it doesn't have a million online FPS games doesn't mean it's a bad system. And all of this is of course, OPINIONATED, so gaming in one person's view could be completely different from gaming in another person's view.
It's all about what you like. I enjoy 'kiddie' games like Mario, Sonic, Rayman, Wario Ware, because they can be fun without needing violence or online play. But GMSG likes the 360 because it's got games he likes, so of course he's going to say it's the better system.
