What is your tolerance?

[Final-Fan]

Legend11 said:

Final-Fan said:

Legend11 said:

Sqrl said:

Non-Lies
-When you see the graphics of the Wii at launch you'll go "Wow" - Subjective
-Enhanced Wii with DVD movie playback coming to U.S. -They never gave a date, and as far as I can tell never said they stopped working on it.
-December 9th,2006 - one million more Wiis to U.S. before the end of the year - I don't see any reason to think they didn't meet this goal.
-More hardware secrets of Wii revealed at launch - Revealing info is bad?

Non-Lies?

That comment about the Wii's graphics making you go "Wow" was in response to internet talk about the Wii being just a slightly enhanced Gamecube. It was implied that the Wii's launch games would look significantly better than the Gamecube's games (I mean otherwise why even say it?). How many Wii launch games looked significantly better than Resident Evil 4 and Twilight Princess?

The Enhanced Wii with DVD movie playback was confirmed for 2007.

The December 9th, 2006 comment was about Reggie's promise to have one million Wiis delivered to stores before the end of 2006. Nintendo the next day put out a press release backing away from Reggie's promise.

The hardware secrets being revealed at launch was something that Perrin talked about that never materialized. Websites when she originally made the comment had articles speculating what the hardware secrets would be, after the Wii's released they wrote followup articles about how there weren't any secrets. The exact same thing happened with Reggie's September surprise.

Anyways I made the original post because of comments other people had made (seeming to portray Nintendo in a different light than Sony and Microsoft when Nintendo has broken just as many promises, actually many more in my opinion, than Microsoft).

Number is one thing, magnitude is another. All of those lies/broken promises can't hold a candle to:

"Failure rates for the Xbox 360 are well within industry standards."

I've never excused Microsoft for lying about how bad the RROD problem is, I was just trying to point out that Nintendo executives have broken promises about many different things when it comes to the Wii. To prove my point, list 10 broken promises that Microsoft made about the 360 (RROD issue counts as 1). I posted about 16 for the Wii from ones that I remember clearly being broken (there're more that I could list, some from Miyamoto even, but this is already turning into a Nintendo fans trying to spin things so why bother).

I don't really keep track of these things, but here are some things I do recall:
1.  RRoD is not happening much.
2.  RRoD is not happening very much.
3.  RRoD is not breaking records for most faulty video game hardware ever. 
4.  We'll take good care of you if you get RRoD. 
5.  1080p doesn't matter.


You act like the reality about the RRoD situation is not a completely unprecedented catastrophe in the industry.  Any other system that was even half as defective got an instant recall, not a half-assed warranty extension. 

You want to hear an example of what Nintendo fanboy spin would be?  Fact: 50% of all shrapnel deaths inside the US since 2005 were caused by exploding ThreeShittys.