Don Reisinger (cnet) calls Wii "Watered Down Experience"

[steven787]

superchunk said:

I actually don't see why you all are complaining. As a Nintendo die hard here, I fully agree.

These are my current complaints.

Third parties do constantly 'casualize' their Wii versions of games. Why is Madden cartoony on Wii? Madden should be Madden. If they want a cartoony football game they should start a new IP. There are plenty of examples of this and primarily it has to do with devs not putting the right resources on Wii versions. They have been typically creating a PS2 game and porting it to Wii with waggle. That's bullshit.

At least Madden 10 isn't a PS2 port with waggle.  The give away to me is that they probably still won't have Wii Speak in Madden 10.

This E3 was the first time I have see a few quality Wii built games that are in turn ported to PSP/PS2.

Even third party exclusives have been relatively poor quality and too focused on the perception that any Wii game must be 'casualized'.

Agree on the last two.

Hell, even Nintendo's own ip's have pissed me off. Why is it excitebots is excitebots? Why the fuck isn't it excite truck 2 with more maps, online, wii speak, etc. Why does NSMB Wii not have online w/ wii speak? Why does animal crossing Wii look/feel exactly like the GC version?

This is why I am glad Excitebots bombed.  They should have made ExciteTruck2 with all those features.  This is what they get.

Nintendo needs to enforce some standards. One should be online for any game w/ multiplayer and if online, it must utilize Wii Speak. Can't claim any BS about power on that as even Xbox did this.

Agree.

Hell, even the obviously less powerful Wii Sports Resorts appears to not have online or wii speak. wtf. Its a goddamn WM+ pushing game with massive multiplayer abilities. Online play w/ Wii Speak should be a given.

Agree.

I love my Wii, but Nintendo really knows how to fuck shit up sometimes.

The main thing here is that Nintendo releases incremental improvements as much as possible to maximize sales of strong brands.  They know that WSR and NSMBWii are going to sell a ton anyway, so why include online play and Wii Speak support?  This has always been one of the problems with Nintendo.

I personally never get tired of playing Mario and will always buy new games until they start sucking or I do get tired of Mario... I am part of the problem I guess.

The author is a Wii-hater but it is partially true.  I do not agree about "mature" graphics of Madden and Ghostbusters, the artstyle of "mature" does not necessarily make a game better.

What water's it down is the lack online play, online communication, a simple friend system, and deeper gameplay in general.

Mario Galaxy offered a new "next-gen" feel to gameplay and level design.  I don't see that huge step in other places, in other games on Wii.

I am not saying there are no good games.  I am not saying that the Wii sucks.  I love the Wii and there are plenty of games I like.