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forevercloud3000 said:

 

No, it is just this is what the OWNERs of the system tell me when they come looking for games. I just did not feel like going through the long drawn out explanation of how I know this. Wii customers come in by the bucket load every so often, hoping there is something besides Wii Sports to play, I offer a few other games that have sold well, but they do not appeal to everybody or they already own it. They tend to be very starved for gaming goodness that the other systems have more of to a certain degree.

 


Even if you're being honest (which I doubt), plural of anecdote is not == data.

Also, if you want to make such a broad sweeping statement, you'd better damn well go through the long, drawn-out explanation; otherwise, people (like me) will just think you're a liar.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

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rendo said:
He wants attention from the Nintendo fanboys.

I get bored of everything pretty quickly. My Wii, my penis, my wife, my kids. Especially my wife. Dumb bitch. <_<

Rofl!

OT:Dude people have been bitching about that forever. Now the wii is getting some badd ass 3rd party support and you wanna jump ship? Whatever it'll be your loss.

Wait till 09.

 



You'd do well to read the things you link before you link them.

Hyperbole contains a significant, usually overblown exaggeration used to illustrate a general point. For example, take the statement, "There have been no good first-party games out for the Wii in ages!" The bolded words are the part subject to hyperbole. However, the speaker doesn't really mean that it has actually been ages since the last first-party Wii release. Instead, a non-hyperbolic version of the sentence would read, "There have been no good first-party games out for the Wii for a long time."

However, your statement reads: "Some of the replies in this thread make me laugh: 'I'm not tired of the Wii because I still have to play these 2 year old games!'" The bolded part, I'm assuming, is the part subject to hyperbole. However, it is not for two reasons. First, it contains no significant exaggeration; the Wii has been out for about one and a half years, so lengthening that to two years smacks more of a mistake, or simply a blatant attempt at trolling. Second, there is no equivalent generalized statement. You may have intended the sentence to mean, "I'm not tired of the Wii because I still have to play these very old games," but "2 year old" is not "very old" in the video game world.

If you intended your statement to be hyperbole, therefore, it should have read something along the lines of, "I'm not tired of the Wii because I still have to play these games that were released back in the Stone Age;" or, "I'm not tired of the Wii because I still have to play these games that are older than your grandmother." As it is, however, calling your statement "hyperbole" is just a lame attempt to back away from a blatant troll post by going, "whoa, just a joke, and you're a humorless twat."

tl;dr: Learn something about dramatic literary devices before you try to tell other people what they are, and stop posting if you're not going to post anything constructive.

I'm not going to honour your trivial rant with a well thought out rebuke. The very fact that you call me a troll because of, as you have implied, an insignificant mistake makes it very clear that you are indeed, by your own words (it seems you realise it yourself), a 'humourless twat'.

 

 



Outcast said:

I'm not going to honour your trivial rant with a well thought out rebuke. The very fact that you call me a troll because of, as you have implied, an insignificant mistake makes it very clear that you are indeed, by your own words (it seems you realise it yourself), a 'humourless twat'.


"I'm not going to acknowledge that you're right, nor try to defend my feeble position, nor even read your post, so I'll just call you names and move on."

+500 Internet points to you, good sir.



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

The wii hasn't left my closet for six months.



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Soriku said:
*bleu-ocelot* said:
The wii hasn't left my closet for six months.

 

*Looks at your previous comments about the Wii and the games in your profile*

Yeah...I have a VERY hard time believing you're a Wii owner. Maybe you should stop trolling.

 

lol most people bashing the wii in this thread dont even own one

edit: its that blue-ocelot guy? of course hes just a troll



I get bored from every system pretty fast... but the wii I actually go back too much more because it's the only one that my gf plays (well DS too but that's solo)... that and nint games are the best fun anyways...



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I'm going to loose the hounds, on the next person who tells me they're losing interest in the Wii! :D

lol, sorry, just had to reference the word "loose."

Anyway, the Wii is better now that's it's ever been. Seems like the wrong time to love interest in it.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

Amen to that.

LOOSE = not tight (kind of like the sanity of someone who wade through the cesspool that this thread has become)

LOSE = to misplace

But hey, anyone who is loosing interest in their Wii can sell it to me (for cheap). I mean, if it isn't worth that much to you, why try to rip someone off for fair market value.



iamfanboy said:
Hawkeye said:
iamfanboy said:

I own a Wii but this is the first time I have purchased a non Nintendo console as well. I really enjoyed games like Excite Truck, Trauma Center, Zelda, and Metroid. After playing these games I had high hopes for it. I couldn't wait for boxing, golf, RPGs... games I wouldn't normally be interested in, however, all great things come to an end and I'm finding myself playing the Wii less and less.

Granted, games like Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles and Metal of Honor: Heroes 2 are awesome but I think the quality of other titles has plummeted overall. This is not the case with Nintendo made games as they are clearly getting better but third party games are generally getting worse in graphics and in controls... SSX Blur, Godfather, Need for Speed, Elebits and Red Steal blow away most of what's out there right now and those are launch titles.

I'm not Wii bashing because I hate it, I just wish companies would put adequate effort into their Wii projects (note the keyword here is adequate).

Is anyone else playing Wii less and less? Is anyone considering selling their system? I'm not at the stage of selling mine but most of my friends already have. It's really sad because although my friends are more into Playstation they bought a Wii first for the same reasons I did (sports, something different) but even though we have different tastes, we all agree that the reason for loosing interest in the Wii is its lack of quality third party offerings.

 

I am in the same boat. Prior to this gen, the only systmes I had were Nintendo systmes (NES, SNES, N4, GC, GB, GB pocket, GB color, GB advance, GB advance SP)

Now, for whatever reason I have lost almost all interest in the DS. It was new and exciting at the time, but I find I like traditional handheld controls better. For traditinal games, PSP is a better fit, and I rarely play DS games now.

I am not bored of the Wii. HOWEVER all my favoirte Wii games allow me to use the GC controller, and I do. The only thing I find great about the Wii is the pointer functinality, and I am hopeful that the next Xbox will have a pointer- this would make many games, especailly FPS games, more intuative.

I am playing Wii less and less, but I have not lost interest. This fall I plan to get ToS and Super Paper Mario- both can use the GC controller hopefully. However, I have about 8 360 games I would like to get. For DS I want schrono trigger and Kirby Super Star ultra, while there are about 12 PSP games I want to get (10 of which are laready out)

 

My thinking exactly, however, I was more intreged by the controller... in fact I refuse to play any Wii game with the GC controller because of the different experience. Although I still do, I guess I got my hopes up because I thought the system would be perfect for golf and boxing - expected something to be realeased soon after and am still waiting two years later. I haven't completely lost interest as there are some games I want to check out like Tiger Woods 09. Not sure if it's 1:1. But like I said, I have been playing less and less.

Also, just about every title that catches my eye on TV has one thing missing (Wii).

 

Yeah, I was expecting something along the liunes of Wii motion plus when the console launched and was soerly dissapointed. I am thinking motion plus will make for a couple FANTASTIC 1st party Ninteod games, but overall will be too late becuase not everyone will have it and 3rd parties will have to support both, or just normal controls and therefore won't optimize wii motion plus or make the advanced motions nessicary for gameplay. I am counting on Sony to steal Nintendo's tech and make it better- then Nintendo will slightly improve Sony's copy, and make better (but fewer games)... until Nintendo innovates again and wins. Or at least thats the pattern I am seeing.

The other probelm I have with Wii I got this expensive HDTV for Xmas and Wii games don't look a whole lot better- HDTV is a big reason why I bought a 360, since I don't have cable or Blu-Ray either.