Love wii, hate Nintendo!

[freedquaker]

 

My title may seem kinda contradictory, but it does not as a matter of fact. Let me clarify!

 

Wii is a great machine for several reasons.

a) It's extremely energy efficient, does not cause you to spend hundreds of dollars on electricity bills each year.

b) It's extremely light and small, exactly how a gaming console should be!

c) It has a sleek and lovely design. Ok, Gamecube and N64 were cuter, but wii is still my favorite console in this gen in terms of looks.

d) It's very user and developer friendly. It's easy to learn for us users and for developers as developing games on the wii is less costly, less time consuming and less risky.

e) Its games are cheaper and it already comes bundled with a game.

f) It's totally silent, which is a very important factor to me.

g) It's innovative and and has some original stuff.

 

On the other hand, I hate Nintendo, because;

a) They would often feel no shy to employ sinister policies, like barring third parties from developing games from other consoles (this felt especially bad against Sega in the past).

b) Many irritating policies like overwhelming copy protection paradigms, sticking to cartridges and imprisoning the companies to expensive propriety formats.

c) Their games suck. I truly hate Nintendo games. I can't stand playing any type of mario or pokemon games or such, maybe Wii Play, wii sports kind of games could be exception, never played them yet.

e) Nintendo is an innovative company, though I hate mario, I adore (original) crash bandicoot games, or though I hated Mario kart, I loved Crash team racing. So I gotta give them credit for their original ideas and innovativeness. However they lack dynamism. They didnt have the dynamism that Sega had in the past with Genesis and Dreamcast, and they still dont have the dynamism that Sony has brought into the industry with ps1, ps2 and ps3, which is also true for MS with Xbox and Xbox360.

I, myself, have never had a Nintendo console, but would stick to Sega and Sony consoles and maybe Xbox360 in the future. Yes I love wii as a machine but I hate the games, and what is it good for with no games that I like!? I still want Nintendo in this business because of their innovation and competition but I hate it when they dominate like this. I want Sony or Microsoft, whichever, to win immediately, LOL :)

Just my opinion gentlemen!