Thread: Wii's outselling PS3's 6 to 1
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Old 07-07-2007, 07:46 PM   #47
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I don't see it that way at all. The PS3 and 360 havn't really advanced anything at all other than power, although the 360 has advanced online gaming on a console as well.

Gears of War, Motorstorm, Resistance, Halo 3. Great games, don't get me wrong, but what new thing are they adding to the table? They've added fuck all new, simple as. Fancy HD graphics will not move gaming on.

Now, as for the Wii, there is no way the control system was added for "quick sales", it was a risk which has paid off thus far. Nintendo don't like 3-way console battles where every console is different. They didn't do a 32-bit CD console because there were 2 out and they wanted to differentiate themselves and then went for a mini-DVD over a real one.

I've always found that to be a bit of a shame, because if the N64 came out around the time of the PS1 as a CD based console I think Nintendo would have taken them to the cleaners. PS1 ports AND Nintendos games? YES PLEASE.

Games like Wii Sports are showing glimpses of what may be able to be done in the future. Look at the first year of the DS. Bollocks, utter shite. Only thing that saved it was Kirby as everything else was just a mini-game that had no right being a full price game and 3rd parties throwing out planned GBA games to cash in. One year later, the Lite comes out and Nintendo storm some amazing games and the 3rd parties followed suit.

Ubisoft and other publishers have already admitted to "cashing in" on the early Wii sales with lazy ports and substandard games, but the shit controlling 3rd party games are not the controllers fault but the coding, just play Excited truck and see how responsive that is. Developers are just waking up and building completly new games for it instead of shoddy ports. EA are looking to be the first. (No, don't count EA Sports but look at games like MySims)

Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 are out at the end of this year, about the 1 year mark for the Wii and it may make that upward burst of quality like the DS did. To coin the old TPWW phrase, Mario will be MAKE IT or BREAK IT for the Wii. A full on platform game using the Wii controller with fucked up gravity? Even I have my doubts that they'll pull that one off. But if they do and the Wii stays top of the sales charts, trust me. GOOD 3rd party support with time taken over the games and maybe, just maybe, it will start living up to it's original codename.
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