Why NOW Is The Time To Abandon Ship On The Wii

[jalsonmi]

First of all, people are entitled to their own opinions. It is only in this age that one person can create a website and make it look like their opinion is more important than any one else's opinion.

Second, the Wii is not for everyone. If it does not do it for you -- by all means move on. No one is stopping you.

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Finally, back to the OP -- this is not the time to abandon the Wii. The game lineup appears to be strengthening -- with some blood and guts games thrown in for those who like them. RPGs are appearing finally. And while the graphics are not HD -- they are not bad. Plus, motion control is only going to get better.

 

Well said. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean you have to bach their opinion. You like your Wii, they don't. If they have reasoning and aren't bashing wantonly, what's the big deal?

At the risk of getting bashed by everyone--I just sold my Wii. I felt the upcoming games were not enough to make me want to keep it. When I first came up with the idea, yeah, it was to possibly buy a PS3 to replace it, but considering current financial matters I just kept to money to pay bills. If I want to play video games for now it's either have to be SNES, N64 or PC (well, Mac) games, or going to friends' houses.

You can very much be a huge Nintendo fan and want to sell the Wii. I loved SMG, RE4 and MP3, liked Twilight Princess, SSBB, Wii Sports and No More Heroes, but still decdied to sell it because nothing on the horizon interested me, and because of the rhetoric of the company. It's one thing that upcoming games don't excite me: The Conduit looks fairly generic beyond controls (though I did love MP3's controls, no, I don't think that's enough), Punch Out has never been my thing, and Madworld...well, I have no idea about Madworld, really. But I could have dealt with that and waited for for some more Nintendo games or even better upcoming 3rd parties if it weren't for the way everyone in the company started talking. It isn't disruption anymore, it's accessability. Specifically, it's Miyamoto saying he wants the next Zelda to be more accessible to all players. I love Zelda. It has long been my favorite franchise--hell, I bought an N64 specifically to play Ocarina of Time, and for a long time the only two games I owned for the system were OoT and MM. I loved WW, which I played on my little sister's Gamecube. And then I only liked TP. It was too easy. Long and involved, sure, but nothing extremely memorable, like the Water Temple in OoT or the fourth temple in MM. And now Miyamoto's saying the next one will be even easier and more accessbiel? When what made the series so good was the puzzles? Well, that's when they lost me. I've already seen my second favorite franchise ever (Sim City) seemly destroyed by a similar plan (if only Sim City 5 would come and wash away the disappoitment of Sim City Societies, Creator and Spore), and it hurts to see such a thing happen to my beloved Zelda.

I'm not saying it's bad for the company, or that I'm owed it or anything. It's ismply not for me, and as such I sold the system.

Furthermore, yes, the processing differences between the systems DO matter. I'm not a graphics nut. But the 360 and the PS3 can do things that the Wii can't, plain and simple. Destructable environments. Number of enemies on the screen. These things are important. Could Portal be made on the Wii? I don't know. The dynamic physics of your falls and the portals are not something I know the Wii can do--I haven't seen any Wii games yet where walls have the interactivite abilities that Portal requires.

Again, I'm not saying this is true for everone, but there are indeed reasons to sell one's Wii, even as a lifelong Nintendo nut such as myself. Just because I'm sayign this doesn't mean I'm personally insulting all Wii owners who feel differently.