The Wii Malcontents

[johnlucas]

theshoe23 said:
Argh, John Lucas, do you realize that the your whole original post can be applied to either of the other two competing consoles? Especially the PS3? I don't necessary agree with the troll, but I also don't agree with your post. The Wii is cool, and fun, but face it, it will eventually be over taken by one of the other consoles. I've said it once and I'll say it again, if graphics didn't matter we would be playing NEW games that look like Frogger.

Actually I do. And I touched upon at least one of them when I mentioned the attitudes towards the XBox 360 last year. In fact I almost named this post "When did gamers become such complainers?" to reference the attitude so many of these types have taken on in the past few years.

You've never seen me complain and whine about the PS3 library and I don't bash the PS3 for not having a library built up yet. It's the 1st F'n year. It takes time to put this stuff up. While I comment on its ability to compete in the midst of strong competitors you've never seen or heard me bash the system for its lineup. I'm sure there's great stuff for the PS3 as well and you would have to ask the owners their likes and dislikes. Eye of Judgment sounds very interesting to me in particular, personally. And Little Big Planet looks to be worth a more focused introspection.

As for Wii being overtaken. Hmhmhmhmhm. Wii Fit. December 2007/Jan 2008. Super Mario Galaxy. November 2007. Super Smash Bros. Brawl. December 2007. Wii's not going anywhere despite the Halo 3/Bioshock barrage and temporary Japan recession. Graphics never won the fight or XBox 1 woulda been champ last generation. Power is for Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor not for game consoles. I don't know how this keeps getting forgotten every generation. Been this way ever since the beginning. SNES won more on momentum from NES than power and in some markets it was closely contested by a weaker competitor namely the Sega Genesis (which I enjoyed).

As for the graphics argument I explain exactly what that means right here:

Why graphics don't mean as much anymore

http://www.n-philes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22174

And you act like Wii's like a Sega Saturn in comparison to the competition when it is about 1/2 to 2/3 as powerful as the rest. PS3 is proving right now that power isn't winning the game and from most accounts the looks of the games on both 360 and PS3 are identical. So that point lives in Moot City.

As for the ones who say "as an owner you have a right to complain" I say this. You don't have to like or dislike anything but DO something about it rather than gripe because at the end of the day you're just wasting precious air from the lungs and not a dadgum thing has changed. I don't like the region locking. I feel that is the ONLY bad point about the Wii. But it doesn't affect me that much and if it did I would find a way to rectify the situation either by gathering a collection of people to persuade Nintendo to change this or making something of my own to bypass this like the one poster mentioned above. He didn't just complain, he DID something. That's all I'm saying.

I got sick of how WWF was going so I wrote the D'Lo Brown Master Plan and tried to get this on TV (and it did reach Jim Ross' desk, they knew about me. might have been closer to realization than I thought). I said if I couldn't get this on TV then I'll stop watching wrestling after 17 dedicated years of doing so. And I did. I don't keep up anymore and every now and then I may channel surf past them to see what's the happenings but I SURELY don't sit up and gripe just to hear myself gripe. I DID something. I DID two things. I tried to change it and then I stopped watching. And I don't hate wrestling, I just chose not to watch that particular program anymore.

Hey guys continue to comment. Let's discuss this further. I'm liking how this thread is going!

John Lucas