Wii Hardware Upgrade Won't Happen Soon 325
As high-definition graphics become more and more entrenched in this generation of game consoles, Nintendo has had to deal with constant speculation about a new version of the Wii that would increase its capabilities. Today, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime bluntly denied that a hardware revision was imminent, saying, "We are confident the Wii home entertainment console has a very long life in front of it." He added, "In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."
It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
Wii has a large userbase of casual gamers. There wouldn't really be anything that new for then. HD sure, but I know many people who really aren't that interested in it. I am, sure, I would love a Wii HD with Motion Capture Plus. But thats probably not the case for majority of people, especially girls who usually don't understand why their boyfriends/husbands want a huge HDTV.
The only thing Wii was missing was the better motion sensors, but it wasn't possible financially at that point, the technology was too costly for competing with better priced console. After that it would be just everything that more hardcore players would want, and that isn't Nintendo's largest market.
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Yeah, similarly as Sony CEO denied the existence of a PS3 Slim before they unveiled it.
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Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
Everyone learned the lesson of Osborne computers.
If they said there was a new WII coming out in 11 months or that the new Wii's controllers would impale your hand with spikes, sales would plummet.
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Though I will admit that when I personally heard about the DSi XL I decided to skip the DSi.
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At some point, the majority of televisions wil
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Any gamer who's pulled out a GFX card and replaced it with a better model will say the same.
Wii? It's a child's toy. It's a child's toy that my child doesn't even
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Interesting)
Are you two kidding? Full blown HD graphics with shadows, complex textures, high poly count and the like are what I want. I want to see blemishes on skin, blades of grass moving and reflections in water. I want to hear footsteps on metal, birds tweeting and monsters breathing. I want downloadable content, voice chat and massive multiplayer events.
Sounds like you need a PC rather than a console.
Consoles are great. I need one so that when people visit, they keep their mucky hands off my computer. Guess which console I went for?
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Guess which console I went for?
PS2. Cheap ass.
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I guess I look for very different things in a game than you do.
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Any gamer who's pulled out a GFX card and replaced it with a better model will say the same.
wrong. did you ever try the wii out ? the controller is at least half what it makes interesting, and i'm waiting for "red steel 2" to come out, it will blow your mind ...
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Only with the Wii MotionPlus. Regular Wiimote SUCKS for such things.
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Are you two kidding? ... I want to see blemishes on skin, blades of grass moving and reflections in water. I want to hear footsteps on metal, birds tweeting
Look around, see that door? Yeah, that one with the sunlight behind it. Close the computer, and walk out it.
Fixed that for you.
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having said that, i'm flat out thinking of more then a handfull of games that actually make use of it. that's not a problem with HD however, it's a problem with our current distribution system for gaming, which favours the wrong people.
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Translucency and fog have been used to great effect on previous gen consoles. Hell, on the N64 it seems like there's nothing but fog. :)
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
The "graphics don't matter" argument doesn't hold much water. If we go down that route, then through backwards induction there was nothing in the PS2 that couldn't be done on the PS1 with cut back graphics. And nothing on the PS1 that couldn't be done on the Sega Saturn. And nothing in the Sega Saturn to Sega Megadrive. And nothing in the Sega Megadrive to NES. And nothing in NES to Atari 2600. And nothing Atari 2600 to the Telstar. etc.
Except of course graphics wasn't the only thing that changed between console generations. Processing power, memory, storage, general throughput, controllers, number of players, modelling, animation, audio, networking, physics are all improved. Each generation was capable of delivering experiences that you simply couldn't get on the one before. Do all these things guarantee a better game? Of course not, but they are powerful tools that can and should be used to deliver the best experience.
An obvious example of this would be Dead Rising. The concept worked so well on the 360 because the console had the power to render hundreds of zombies. A veritable horde of them. When the game was ported to the Wii, even with cut down graphics, the game had been emasculated so you were lucky to see a dozen zombies at once. The game lost its soul in the transition. Some games simply do not translate well even if you cut down the graphics.
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You're missing the point. The grandparent was claiming "There's nothing on the 360 that couldn't have been done on the x-box, if the developers had just cut back the complexity of the graphics; and it would have been no less fun.". I just provided an example of a game which was distinctly less fun and emasculated when someone cut back the complexity of the graphics and other areas to run it on a less power
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It sounds like you're in the minority of console gamers who never has moments like "holy shit that looks amazing!" Better graphics make that possible.
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
I’ll make a bold statement:
I am a game designer. And you know which games I personally like to play most?
Small innovative (flash) games and the like! (Think kongregate.com.)
It sees that big budget games tend to go all aesthetics and technology.
But small games go more in the direction of good gameplay (mechanics).
I wish people would not forget, that it’s all four (story, gameplay, aesthetics, and technology) that are relevant.
And the quality of a game, is all those things, multiplied with each other. (With story having the biggest factor, but the others being not much less relevant.)
They have to support each other.
Re:It makes sense really (Score:4, Insightful)
Exactly bro, ever notice the people in Pixar's film don't exactly look like people? Yet their movie completely rocks? It's always the content. The actors do play a part but if you've seen great actors in shit high budget movies you'd know what I mean :)
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People are used to a kind of look, and won't accept anything less.
I started gaming on the Sinclair Spectrum clones, with their 256 * 170 something displays. I still think those games were looking great, but I hate the look of the flash-based clones with similar resolutions.
People that are used to a level of graphics in games won't accept something lower, even if the play is fun. While Doom could look nice on a phone screen, they look terrible on 19" displays.
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That’s because Pixar avoids the uncanny valley like hell. And they are right to do so. ;)
Pixar could already go practically 100% on making realistic humans. But that tiny bit missing would make it a very creepy experience. Which perhaps works if it’s supposed to be a monster in a horror movie. But not in your typical Pixar movie.
I agree, that we are past “realism” as an ideal.
Nowadays, it’s like art: You try to create a style. Its own “realism”.
Like Finding Nemo, wh
Re:It makes sense really (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, they already made the decision to drop out of the graphics arms race, and instead concentrate an features that made the system more usable. That strategy has paid off handsomely. Why go back on it now?
I wonder if consumers are beginning to get tired of all that expensive tech that ends up being obsolete in a year or two. The recession is a factor, but even before, we saw people asking themselves if they really wanted Blu-Ray, HD, or whatever. The fact that cheap-but-fun Nintendo products are outselling the fancier competition is consistent with that.
Re:It makes sense really (Score:4, Interesting)
Might it be that, for most people, DVD resolution is 'good enough' for video, like mp3 is 'good enough' for audio? Or am I just restating the '640k' thing?
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DVD resolution is 'good enough' for video
Most of the time - yes. Many movies gain little to nothing from HD.
Or am I just restating the '640k' thing?
Yes and no.
My point is that many movies/games jumped on HD (and next - 3D) without actually trying to add anything new to it. My friend after seeing a new movie in HD once commented that only difference to experience was that in the boring moments of the movie he could entertain himself by reading the signs and numbers on the license plates.
Where HD could make huge difference in games IMO are the action scenes. Pixel count really hel
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Does anybody watch a movie by staring dead-straight at the centre of the screen?
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Does anybody watch a movie by staring dead-straight at the centre of the screen?
Majority does.
And that's what Hollywood execs care about.
I have similar problems though not to such extent: during Avatar I had to take off glasses not once but otherwise I was OK.
In fact it is not so much of an off-topic. HD has similar problem - supplying too much redundant information which human perception simply can't swallow. Most people ignore it. Though some like me (or you) who like to look not only at what film/game makers expects us to look at get the headaches.
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If you're paying so much for all that gear, you're doing it wrong... ;)
http://bit.ly/8Mjw6x [bit.ly]
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But you need to get a nunchuk to play certain games: 25 dollars.
Since when was Player 1's Nunchuk accessory eliminated from the standard bundle?
unless they're some hokey peripheral game like WiiFit, where you're going to pay 100 dollars.
It's not the only peripheral game. Cross-platform peripheral games include DDR, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band, even on your favored X [] O. And if you're including MotionPlus in the Wii's price, do you plan to include Natal in the 360's or Eye in the PS3's?
Want to buy Mario Kart and get two little steering wheel controllers? 90 dollars.
The Wii Wheel is a piece of plastic. There are third-party replacements: after you buy the game and one wheel, additional wheels cost $15 or so.
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
especially girls who usually don't understand why their boyfriends/husbands want a huge HDTV
I must be lucky, my GF already talks about 3DTV. Last year I tried unsuccesfully to hold her back on the home cinema system.
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Funny)
It's a trick. Mine was the same until I married her. Now she just complains about all the Hifi, TVs, speakers etc cluttering the place up.
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I got one of those. T2000. What model are you using?
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
A woman marries a man thinking he'll change... he doesn't.
A man marries a woman thinking she won't change... she does.
I doubt this will ever change.
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Lack of understanding doesn't exclude ability to enjoy. I wanted to hook up my old Logitech 4.1 surround speakers at home to at least get better sound than the TV's built in speakers but my girlfriend didn't like the idea of extra wires and such. She was away visiting family for a few days this Christmas though, so I seized the opportunity to do it anyways, and since she got home and heard the difference there has been no argument.
Also, I am currently trying to hold her back from buying some large-ass plasm
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One really interesting thing when it comes to the Wii is that the controllers are talking Bluetooth, which makes them useful for other applications too.
Just take a look at the Wiimote library [msdn.com].
And recently I have interfaced a Wiimote with a windows mobile device, so anyone stating that it can't be done is wrong.
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"I would love a Wii HD with Motion Capture Plus."
Its Wii MotionPlus not Motion Capture Plus, but ... so would I :)
you may have just started something here...
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But thats probably not the case for majority of people, especially girls who usually don't understand why their boyfriends/husbands want a huge HDTV..
Yes because women and girls are so dumb, am I right? My girlfriend was just as excited as I was when we got our HDTV to play Xbox on.
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Well, as guys we generally notice girls who look good and girls who spend time tending to their appearance don't often care about gadgetry and tech stuff. Ergo, we mostly notice the women who are "dumb" when it comes to anything we care about.
On a related note.. has anyone here considered the skill required in putting on a decent face of make-up? I can do amazing things with php, mysql and jQuery in no time at all, I am proficient in a good handful of languages, I can setup and configure servers and network
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Ergo, we mostly notice the women who are "dumb" when it comes to anything we care about.
I can't for the life of me put together an ensemble that makes me look good and stand out at a social gathering
has anyone here considered the skill required in putting on a decent face of make-up?
I'm really confused...
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Confused? I don't see why.. First off, I am a guy and a geek by nature.
Ergo, we mostly notice the women who are "dumb" when it comes to anything we care about.
Guys notice girls who look good. Girls who care about appearance don't generally care about tech. As geeks and nerds, anyone without a basic understanding of simple tech-stuff qualifies as "dumb". Ergo, we are attracted to "dumb" girls, and "Most girls are dumb" is perhaps a result of this.
The rest was just a random rant, a bit of support for the gals we so easily disregard as being dumb because they have no interest in or understanding
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I never said every girl was. But what I've dated, they've always been ok with smaller tv and such, mostly caring about the content and not the technology. Wii fits good into this. That being said, I don't usually date geeky girls or who share the same amount of interest in computers, because even if I hate it, I need someone to drag me out and do other fun things in life.
Of course people are different and so they should be. But some generalizations are true and to certain lengths will always be. If you have
Re:It makes sense really (Score:5, Insightful)
Never mind that this guy isn't about to Osbourne Wii sales.
Until they want to show it off, it won't exist. Simple really.
You don't see Microsoft talking about the XBox1080, or Sony talking about the PS4 - that's because they don't want existing sales to tank as people wait for the new product. I don't see why Nintendo would be any different. The only guaranteed thing is that all three companies are more than likely well into the design process for their next generation consoles.
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It's a good thing there's actually a customized version of the Wii just for those girls that don't want their boyfriends to have a proper HD setup...
http://bit.ly/7wnVfm [bit.ly]
wasn't possible financially? (Score:2)
The only thing Wii was missing was the better motion sensors, but it wasn't possible financially at that point, the technology was too costly for competing with better priced console.
Citation needed. The problem with the Wii's sensing capabilities is that has three accelerometers x, y and z. Any good mathematician/physicist/engineer would recognize the wiimote has six degrees of freedom and therefor needs more than what it has.
This could be completely solved by adding the exact same sensing hardware in another place inside the wiimote, which I highly suspect that is all the "motion plus" is.
The problem is their controllers not the console. So, yes, it would have increased the pr
So what he's really saying... (Score:5, Insightful)
In terms of what the future holds, we've gone on record to say that the next step for Nintendo in home consoles will not be to simply make it HD, but to add more and more capability, and we'll do that when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii.
Translation: We still have MOUNTAINS of shovel ware to sell!
nowhere near (Score:5, Funny)
>"when we've totally tapped out all of the experiences for the existing Wii. And we're nowhere near doing that yet."
exactly. they've only just come out with a black wii. then they will have a blue wii, yellow wii, green wii, then they still have to do the special edition pokemon pikachu wii, the clear see through wii, the smaller wii with a different disc loading mechanism, an even smaller wii with a new controller, then FINALLY they'll release the WII HD, after all our waiting, then 6 months later they'll release the wii 2 electric boogaloo
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While Nintendo has indeed released such variations of their consoles in the past (except for disc loading, are you thinking of Sony?), you're omitting that none of the redesigns introduced new features to the console. The user is not disadvantaged by not buying the new models.
Having differently colored casings does nothing to the capabilities of the system. The smaller redesigns use less material and may be more "stylish" compared to when the system was first released, but still add no new features.
The only
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original gameboy, then came the gameboy pocket, then came various versions with different colours, then came the gameboy colour. then came the GBA with various colour editions. then the GBA SP, then came the coloured editions of that, also the NES styled edition (which I admit I own and still play) then the GBA MICRO. Then the DS, which wasn't supposed to kill the GBA but did anyways.
Nintendo always does this. they milk the cow until blood comes out, then they kill it, bring in a new cow, and feed it to th
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exactly. they've only just come out with a black wii. then they will have a blue wii, yellow wii, green wii,
Exactly, indeed. It worked for Apple, didn't it?
This, my friends, is how you make profit in business. Figure out what a large group of people really want at a price they'll pay and give them the cheapest to manufacture product that meets that criterion. It's all about profit, not gross. The best way to increase your market share is to stay profitable and avoid changes that disturb the cheap product that gives your customers something they want to pay for.
If you've done this, you'd be surprised how bizarr
Applaud the man. (Score:5, Interesting)
Good for Nintendo. I don't really care about flashy sequels and having to re-buy consoles/accessories/games or hope that the backward compatibility works (if there is one). I just want people to carry on making games for a console that almost everyone has played. It's good business sense to keep your customers on a stable platform and sell optional extras / games that enhance their original purchase's value without *forcing* them to upgrade and alienating them, not to mention keeping the online Wii stores alive - how many people who have never touched emulation have been playing emulated titles on Wii without even knowing? It's good gaming sense (what matters is the game and the price, not the number of / type of peripherals, graphics, sound...) and at the end of the day, the Wii is forefront on the general public's mind... not including persistent gamers, people would struggle to give the correct name of the current version of the Xbox / Playstation, and would probably name Wii first.
"Wii 2" isn't required. Wii already proved that state-of-the-art isn't required, just a little bit of fun and know-how and something a bit different. Whether you hate it or not, you've played Wii at least once and tried it. I know that I can't say the same about the Xbox (any version) / Playstation (any version past the original PS1) consoles, yet my PC is full of every genre of game. Give it another 5 years or so, then people will be making games that actually test the limits of the Wii to the extreme all the time, then a successor that has full backwards compatibility will sell like hot cakes. And, to be honest, everyone I know that owns a Wii would actually be happier with some bundled accessory that enhances the whole console rather than a whole new console... a "HD addon" or even some processing upgrade that the Wii can interface with (like the N64 memory expansion modules, or the SuperFX/DSP chips that were in SNES games - Nintendo know what they are doing when it comes to getting the most out of a huge investment, which is why they're pretty much the only one making a decent return on hardware alone, not just the software).
If it works, and it sells, and it makes money, don't ditch it for a sequel... enhance it a bit at a time, one expenditure at a time, and keep your customers happy without shoving them between major purchases and platforms. If only MS could follow the same suit...
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"Good for Nintendo. I don't really care about flashy sequels and having to re-buy consoles/accessories/games or hope that the backward compatibility works (if there is one). I just want people to carry on making games for a console that almost everyone has played."
So you want Nintendo to keep re-hashing the same thing OVER and OVER and OVER as they've done (although there's some innovation with the Wii, it's the same thing again and again and again but with a new controller)
Nintendo are famous for it, the u
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Played the new mario game? It's a combination of all the previous Mario games.
Played Wii Sports Resort? It's Wii Sports with knobs on.
Played Mario Kart Wii? It's like every Mario kart game.
So, yes, the Wii itself is almost *entirely* rehash. Really hurt their sales figures, didn't it? And why? Because it's still *new* and *fun* at the same time as being *familiar*.
I don't care about them rehashing, so long as it's still fun to play with a crowd of friends. And there's still new stuff too. If you wan
I'd like one change (Score:5, Insightful)
An HDMI cable. Every other device connected to the TV has one, but the Wii insists on converting to analogue and back again. I can't think of any reason why this would be terribly expensive or difficult to do. They wouldn't even need to support higher resolutions - just the same ones over HDMI.
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I agree that it would be a great idea, but not because of any picture quality. The advantage would be being able to use it with computer monitors which don't have SD component inputs.
Even the GameCube had some kind of obscure digital output for japanese TVs, even on the american and european models. Surely a HDMI port can't be that challenging.
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Yup, absolutely. HDMI is fast becoming the standard interconnect for video to all displays. And it does sound too - what's not to like?
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And since the Wii's got a proprietary connector on its end, it's another chance for Nintendo to make a mint on accessories.
I know you can get component cables for it from 3rd parties at a lower price, but the average user won't know that.
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They should offer higher resolutions with HDMI and they could probably keep it compatible and do some better texturing/upscaling like what was done for PS2 emulation on the PS3 (or PS one on the PS2.)
There is no reason to remain on low def analog!
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They could always do what they did with the component cable (which is what I currently use) and price it higher. That way only those people that care would spend the extra cash.
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What do you mean component just doesn't cut it? I watch HDTV perfectly fine with component cables on my HDTV. In fact, I'm not using HDMI anywhere.
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The use of a lower quality analog connection leaves you with washed colors and an overall reduction in sharpness. I used one of those (15 feet long), and there is degraded quality from PC to TV.
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Only HDMI has built-in digital audio, and it's the only way to get digital multichannel audio that isn't encoded as Dolby Digital, DTS, or WMA Pro (in home theater systems).
With HDMI, source devices can be connected to a home theater receiver or HDMI switch and a single cable can be connected to the display.
I actually have HDMI audio capable equipment, but use 6
Like they would really tell (Score:4, Insightful)
needs hard drive (Score:2)
It looks like no one has even mentioned the biggest problem I have with the Wii (a console a otherwise love): no hard drive.
Of course, I don't think this would be a massive hardware change for it. Homebrewers are already putting hard drives on it. Maybe they release a Wii 2.0 with hard drive?
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Hard drives are history. I don't think any of the next generation consoles, presumably 2012, will come with one. They're too expensive for the functionality they'll provide. Flash drives make much more sense. Even now you can buy a 16 GB SD card for the Wii which will hold more games than you could afford to download.
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But maybe not more music than you can afford to download for music games. At least that has been my experience. And, furthermore, the drivers are part of the games themselves, so the old ones will never be able to access more than the 2Gb for the old type SD cards (though some 4gb non HD type cards work).
Of course, the hard drive isn't going to help the old games. So you have me there.
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There is a noticeable difference in image clarity when going to 480p via composite. If you can't see this on your TV perhaps you bought the wrong TV?
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My own speculative name was the Wii-Wii....
Re:darn it! (Score:4, Interesting)
They want your WIFE to want to upgrade.
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that's 'wiife'.
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Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:5, Insightful)
I think I disagree. Why upgrade, if the only difference is going to be better graphics? That doesn't make games any better. The weakest console, graphically, won this gen by a landslide. The weakest console, graphically, won last gen by a landslide. It's the games, not the hardware, that make a console enjoyable... and the games get BETTER throughout a console's lifespan.
If a new console cycle started, we would be in for two years of really bad games before developers got back on an even keel. The games would become ANOTHER 400% more expensive to create, and probably shorter. Is there any game you want that can't be made on current hardware?
I would love to get another five years out of ALL the current consoles.
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As a matter of fact, bringing Wii graphical (and compute) power at the level of PS3 and XBox360 would make Wii ports cheaper - one could use the same polygonal models and textures (which one can not do now as it would overpower the Wii graphical engine in geometry and texturing, and probably memory use and so on).
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Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:5, Informative)
I don't see the value proposition in the Wii now that the more powerful and capable competition with better games have come down to a point where the price difference is largely irrelevant.
Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:4, Interesting)
According to MetaCritic [metacritic.com], there are 26 Xbox games with 90+ ratings, 20 PS3 games with 90+ ratings, and 9 games on the Wii with 90+ ratings.
I don't see the value proposition in the Wii now that the more powerful and capable competition with better games have come down to a point where the price difference is largely irrelevant.
Staying locked in your bubble won't allow you to understand where you're wrong.
But it's pretty obvious : "Metacritic", "more powerful and capable competition with better games".
You are stuck in your old values that the Wii is disrupting right since before its launch, and you use Metacritic to confort you, a site that compile reviews from site stuck exactly in these same old values.
Sorry, but the Wii just shattered the record of sales for a console in one month in the USA this december (3.81 millions Wii sold, PS2, previous record owner for home consoles, was at 2.69).
It more than exceeded the sales of PS3 and XB360 combined.
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That's all good and well if you agree with the results of the MetaCritic. However, this might not be the case: as a car-related analogy, while 90% of the people might love black cars, you might hate them.
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I don't trust game critic scores anymore. I either play a demo myself, or I don't buy the game.
Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's silly. Let's say you're going to get one console and the top twenty games for it. For the 360, the game 20 has a score of 90 (Bayonetta). For the PS3, game 20 has a score of 89 (WipEout HD Fury). For the Wii, game 20 has a score of 86 (Punch-Out!!). You're making a big deal out of literally a few points in a 100 point scale, even though each console has a largely different set of reviewers, judging the games by different standards.
What's more important is variety. Are you really going to get both Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? If you look at the 26 Xbox 360 games with 90+ ratings, about 10 of them are first-person shooters. Do you need that many shooters? In fact, if you pare down your 90+ list for each system by eliminating games that play similarly, you'll shorten the 360 and PS3 lists severely.
Speaking of paring down, the 9 games scoring 90+ on the Wii include both Metroid Prime 3 and Metroid Prime Trilogy. Trilogy includes corruption, so subtract 1 from the Wii's count. Oh but Trilogy is a pack of three 90+ games, sold for the price of 1, so add back 2.
Now with that correction, the Wii has 10 games with 90+ ratings. And that points out the problem of lasting value, totally unaccounted for by your metric. Game scores generally measure how good a game is while you're playing it, but completely ignore how long you'll be playing. There's no real difference between two games with a score of 90 where you'll play each for 10 hours and one game with a score of 90 that you'll play for 20 hours. Well, except the individual game has twice the value for what you pay yet counts half as much by your metric.
And that's the problem. What you're doing is similar to taking a bunch of objects, measuring their density, and summing the quantities. The result is meaningless. It will go up if you simply cut something in half. What you want to do is measure the mass, the actual entertainment value.
Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:4, Insightful)
I have a wii, and I regret getting it so far. The Only thing I play on it is Guitar Hero, and I certainly don't need a wii for that. Wii sports gets boring rather quickly.
Then I have one of the Resident evil games. This one is fun enough, but the graphics suck balls so much it's unbelievable - mostly due to the low resolution. Most of the other games I see in the stores don't look even remotely interesting, and those that do usually have very bad reviews.
If you know of any good games, please tell me.
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I'm having a lot of fun with Call of Duty Modern Warfare on the Wii at the moment - the multiplayer option is rather nice.
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Well yeah, but I got the wii in order to play games that were unique to it (or consoles in general), not to play a game that I can play much more comfortably and with better graphics on my PC.
Is there any game for the wii that matches that description? I haven't found it yet, but then again I gave up looking quite soon due to the insane amounts of shovelware.
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Depends on what you like. I like sword-play and archery, so the Wii caters better to my desires better than other consoles --- I'm also tolerable of what the OP would consider ``poor'' graphics, so take that into consideration. Notable games among the ~30 which we've bought so far:
Wii Sports Resort is quite engaging --- if one is interested in one of the specific mini-games/sports (my son likes sword-fighting, my daughter likes Rhythm Kung-Fu, my wife likes the various water games and I enjoy archery and sh
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We thought exactly the same thing when my 14 year old son bought a Wii with his hard earned and saved money last Spring. It sat gathering dust almost all summer, with his younger sister and I most often playing it. We only had Smash Bros, Wii Sports and Wii Fit to play and did not bother buying any more games because it really wasn't all that fun.
Fast forward to Christmas Day and I bought the family Wii Sports Resort and the required MotionPlus add-ons. The Wii has been played almost every day since. Our fa
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My experience is pretty similar - we got a Wii the Christmas before last (well it was a gift to my other half, even though I was pretty sure she wouldn't play on it but I thought at least I might get some use out of it). We played it for a couple of days over Christmas while all the family was together but already after a few hours I was bored, and in terms of tactile response the controller felt cheap and uncomfortable to use for prolonged periods - we've not touched it since then (I was half tempted to tr
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New Super Mario Bros for Wii
Seriously. Get it! I've only played through it with two players, but that game is so unbelievably entertaining I lack words. The only bad thing I have to say is that the controls feel a bit "sluggish" compared to the old NES/SNES games where responsiveness was a very important priority, but it's not so bad as to be an issue and is quickly forgotten in the glee of playing such an awesome game!
Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:4, Informative)
If you know of any good games, please tell me.
In no particular order...
Re:Tapped out, eh? (Score:4, Funny)
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well, that novelty have lasted since it's release in 2006, quite some novelty...
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It still has pretty bad jaggys even over the component, since it does no AA and its only 720x480.
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A decent LCDTV has built-in smoothing when you drop to lower resolutions. My Samsung S550 does it. It's like a built in 2xSAI filter.