I don't know about you but is this bothering you like it is me?
What I'm asking? I'm talking about the general internet-wise complaining about all things Wii. The endless bitching, moaning, whining, groaning, kvetching, I don't know an equivalent word in Swahili but you get my meaning.
From non-owners it's one thing and it is to be expected. But from owners isn't this routine getting a little old?
The self-proclaimed "hardcore" who only think games are supposed to be a certain way never satisfied with how anything comes out, bemoaning the console as a disappointment even though it's been on the market for less than a year, worrywarting about its future, and sniping at the new audience the Wii's bringing in.
Taking any and every slight opportunity to slam any slightly inflammatory thing a Nintendo exec has said regardless of the actual benign nature of the comment or truth therein. The Wii collecting dust soliloquies and hapless wishes that the console was more like its competition (the antithesis of the project's direction in the first place to do so).
Ya know, it's just my feeling on complainers in general. If you have issues with what you got, DO something. Quit yer bitchin' as some would say. To some the Wii wasn't what they expected or hoped to be. Sad but so be it. If not satisfied, SELL it. GIVE it away. GIVE it to someone who wants it. But they never do that. If I didn't like what a product was offering me I'd find the product that DOES give me what I'm looking for. Actually I rarely have regrettable purchases because I plan out everything in advance and prepare myself with forethought. Only every blue moon did I have a purchase I didn't like in the end. Very rare. I see myself with the product and anticipate how the product is and how it matches my mood and personality before buying ANYTHING. Always a Customer. NEVER a Consumer.
There's competition for a reason so if one system is not your cup of tea buy the other one AND learn to make more informed reasoned purchasing decisions in the future. A $9.99 To The Earth on NES in 1990 taught me all I needed to know on making wiser purchasing decisions. I coulda had Bayou Billy if I just paid 5 dollars more!
And the other thing. The moaning about the library. Just because the games available don't suit your cup of tea doesn't mean there's nothing on the system that's good. Plenty of worthwhile stuff on the Wii. And NO system has EVER had a first year where everything is rarin' to go library wise. Last year people were crying and complaining about XBox 360's library and now look at it in its 2nd year.
It's not Nintendo's fault that the 3rd parties didn't believe in the Wii project until it was too late. 3rd parties rectified their errors and the games will coming back to back in 2008 because it's just too much money on the table to miss out on. They threw some quickie stuff together to cash in but the A-team stuff takes time to produce. This stuff can't be produced overnight.
Yet nobody seems to want to understand this. They'd rather just stew and simmer over some imagined wrong the company has made taking any and every opportunity to attack without reason. Party games, mini-games, non-games. You arrogant jabronies whether you like the games or not doesn't make them any less games than the stuff you DO like.
It's probably just the usual Hate The Most Popular reflex kicking in, I suppose. So many positive Wii stories have been coming out so much lately that I guess some people feel they have to "balance" in their own mind. Ridiculous.
In fact those liking the competition better be thankful Nintendo hasn't secured everything quite yet because when they do the competition will be marginalized as Nintendo revamps and transforms the market pretty much making them almost the only game in town. 1st party + 2nd party + 3rd party = Nintendo's party. 2008/2009 will see genre-making and genre-transforming games as the creative developers get into the system and REALLY make it work. All of this boohooing will be forgotten by that time and many of those whiners will be reporting how they bought another Wii to play the new games available. Pathetic.
Seriously, death to the self-proclaimed "hardcore". The "hardcore" who are impossible to please, impatient beyond reason, and negative about every development in the gaming world that doesn't suit their tastes. THOSE hardcore can hit the road as far as I'm concerned. No maker of anything would want to cater to a bunch of crabs like these. I'm just a gameplayer. Just call me that. I play realistic games, cartoony games, goal-oriented games, and non-goal oriented games. I play masterpieces, quirky titles, and licensed branded schlock. I just play. If I like it and it's fun to me, it's bought. And if I don't like it, I just chalk it up to experience and learn not to make that mistake twice. No need to complain. Just learn.
This clique is retarding the industry and is the reason why it cannot grow beyond its current boundaries. I mean people complained about Halo 3???? What the hell?! NOTHING is wrong with Halo 3 and yet people cry about the graphics??? Do they not have eyes?? Metroid Prime 3 is selling better than any Metroid before it and yet people are disappointed it's not pulling in Halo 3 numbers???? Even though Halo 3 was inspired design-wise by the Metroid series these games are totally different regardless of the 1st person perspective. Shocking but Metroid never has been a monster selling series which saddens me because each of them have been simply excellent. It does modestly well sales even the influential Super Metroid from the SNES. Even though both protagonists wear big suits of armor with a visor these are totally different styles of play, one more social and action packed, the other more solitary and exploratory.
This kind of attitude messed up Star Wars, Star Trek, WWF (I'll never say WWE), and a lot of good things in entertainment. Fans who can't see the big picture and opt to complain to the moon instead of doing something about it. When WWF stopped putting out the TV I once liked I just stopped watching. I also tried to change it personally (I wonder if anybody out here has heard of the D'Lo Brown Master Plan). I made a little bit of commentary about the declining direction and then stopped following it regularly. Simple as that. No muss, no fuss.
The next time I hear one of the moaners complain about the Wii, I will put him on the spot and tell him to give to me since I have plenty of people in my life who this would make an excellent Christmas gift for. Can't give mine away because I'm loving every minute of it!
"Shoot" or get off the pot. Either way enough of the crying.
John Lucas
Words from the Official VGChartz Idiot
WE ARE THE NATION...OF DOMINATION!
