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aidencronus on 14 January 2008

haha yeah that was a good one
i almost fell for it too
:P i give u a 7



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BornFirst. on 14 January 2008

Come on homey, there really no need to be so blind. There really haven't been great third party efforts, but i think whats most important is not the number of copies a game sells but rather the amount of profit it makes a company. The way things sound you can make a nice little profit on the Wii buy selling a measly 300k. But to sell such a low lvl on a HD console would almost definate;y be considered a failure.

Oh whats the point, people have said all of this already, it really gets boring. The same arguments and the same rebuttals.



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stof on 14 January 2008

Wow...

So I tried tackleing Guitar Hero 3 on medium. I'm really not a big fan of Slayer right now.



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Shade on 14 January 2008

@OP You sure do love attention (the bad kind) huh. Clearly you do as you made this very lovely thread where everyone's gonna have very nice things to say about you and this topic



Shade on 14 January 2008

Ah joke much?



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thx1138 on 14 January 2008

You know we have heard the no great 3rd party efforts for at least 2 generations of Nintendo hardware.

You have people purchasing the Wii that bought into the hype and some of them are content to play WiiSports and a couple of other mini game collections. Mario and Sonic perfect example of this it is advertised almost as the successor of WiiSports.

You have Nintendo fans that suck up everything Nintendo and they have bought SMG, Zelda, RE4Wii.

You also get just about everyone to purchase a game like Guitar Hero.

Also everyone purchase WiiPlay because everyone needs a 2nd controller.



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rasone77 on 14 January 2008
stof said:
Wow...

So I tried tackleing Guitar Hero 3 on medium. I'm really not a big fan of Slayer right now.

 You're not joking. I have been trying for a month to get 5 stars on that piece of shit. I'm up to 123,416 and still don't have it.  

 I am not even sure that should be considered a song, let alone a "Legend of Rock"



misterd on 14 January 2008

Are you seriously asking why most (not all) 3rd party titles, the vast majority of which just plain suck, haven't sold as well as one of the best games of the year? Really, you SHOULD expect a solid GOTY title to outsell most games, even if an opposing console has twice the userbase (though not if you get the 5:1 ratio of PS2: GCN/XB). For better analysis, compare the GOTY titles of one console to the other.



SnesTea on 14 January 2008
weezy said:
Jandre02 said:

Can someone, anyone explain after all of this Wii hardware sale stuff, that the best selling third party game has sold less than COD4 on the PS3? I just dont understand what people do with their Wii's after they are done. My little brother got a Wii for Christmas, we had fun for about a week, and now hes back to playing that Maple Story game.

 

Is Wii software worth anything at all, or has pure hype and "Wii-" games and Mario put so much wind in the Wii's sales (there is a pun there) that it just sells uncontrollably? I mean if you are cheering for Nintendo I can see why you are excited. But everyone else in the gaming community has to be going WTF right now.

I dont think any third party developers will hop on board the Wii with half an effort. No matter how deep or amazing a story you create, it will never matter unless the game begins with Wii, or has Mario in it. If it does meet those low standards, as you can see with Mario & Sonic, it will be elevated past all other third party games that are actually worth driving to the store for.

After thinking about all of this, does the Wii even matter? I mean the only thing that can keep the Wii from becoming a fad is Nintendo themselves, because nothing worthwhile other than Mario games will ever be on the Wii, as it looks right now. And this of course is only in reference to REAL games, as im sure after Wii Fit is done we will have Wii-Shopping, Wii-Taxes, Wii-Graffiti and any other game that comes to mind that they can milk to get money.

So, its seems were two or three huge AAA third party flop away from the Wii being referred to as a "nintendo-platform" instead of a "gaming platform", at which point developers will realise that the Wii is nothing more than a cool gadget and not something you play games on. Third party will shy away from it completely by 2009, and it may continue selling, or it may not. But its affect on REAL gaming won't be noticeable at all. Im sure pretty of people will be in better shape though, fitness wise.

 

(And really, Im only posting this nonsense (and it really is a load of poop) because I see 5-6 different Sony bashing post a day. If not that, every positive piece of FACTUAL PS3 news gets flooded by Nintendo fans. So, I just want to point out that the Wii is, as it appears right now, nothing more than a Mario world with a few fitness and sports games. Of course there will be a few kids who say " NO ITS NOT ITS MORE THAN THAT!" Where? Show me. Because I sure as hell dont see it.)


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Jandre02 on 14 January 2008
tokilamockingbrd said:
.... better put your flame retardent on... your post sucked....

did you consider the fact that no 3rd part has put a major effort into Wii yet? Like CoD4 or AC... GHIII is selling better than on PS3 and similiar to 360... cant think of any other 3rd party efforts.... unless I count RE4 REMAKE which sold as much as AC PS3...

 First of all...good. Haha there isnt much to attack the Wii on so I just searched for something. Secondly, Guitar Hero III had a BS release on the PS3. If you were to go into stores they never had those in stock, but had the Wii version 360 version and PS2 version.

 So as far as that goes, the attach rate for the PS3 version is higher.

 

And this is funny

 

"WHO THE HELL JUDGES A GAME FIRST YEAR!?"

Umm, a good deal of you bash the PS3's first year. Its only fair isnt it? The Wii doesnt sell third party games. It sells Nintendo games. And dont you count Mario vs Sonic as thrid party, if that had been Sonic at the Olympic games as the same game without Mario then it wouldnt have broken 1,000,000 sold.