As a Nintendo fan I feel relief with the current drought.

[milkyjoe]

Torillian said:

Conegamer said:

True, but it's the same for all consoles. We're talking about Q2 ONLY, so UP TO JUNE, ONLY.

And as others have already said, there's only a couple big games for each console in Q2. It's a summer drought, it happens for all consoles.

Oh, you can add Carnival Games to the 360 list if you'd like. We aren't gonna buy it, but it'll still be a million-seller. So just because the games will sell millions, doesn't mean they're good games, SOCOM 4 is an example of this if reviews are correct.

I don't know how you can think that the Wii, which only has two notable games to your recollection in Q2 can be in the same situation as the HD consoles.  

After April which had Mortal Kombat and Portal 2 the notable games in Q2 that will release on HD consoles are: L.A. Noire, Witcher 2, and Brink in May as well as Infamous 2, Alice: Madness Returns, and El Shaddai in June.  That's 6 notable games on HD consoles (I even cut a lot out like Fear 3 and Hunted: The Demon's Forge) in those two months compared to one controller tie in game on Wii.  The situations are not nearly the same.  You can say "well it only has ____ games if you're saying a platform has a drought it shouldn't be dependent on your taste in games but just how many notable games in general are releasing on the platform, and in that measure the HD consoles are completely different from the Wii in Q2.

 

I don't agree with that at all.

A game I'm not interested in is a game I'm not interested in. It doesn't matter if it's any of the 6 games you've listed or any of the games on the Wii's Q2 list, I'd look upon them all with the same disdain whereas this seems to be descending into a debate about personally uninteresting hardcore games being somehow superior to personally uninteresting casual games, when the type of game (in the hardcore/casual sense) is irrelevant if I'm not buying anything either way.

As it is right now, I've not bought a retail game this year on any platform, and of all the upcoming games I'm only interested in two games over all platforms between now and September. So if I buy those two that'll represent two purchases in the first 8 months of the year on all platforms, and you're going to tell me I'm not experiencing a drought just because there's a few 'notable' releases? Just try it.