Worldwide Numbers In!!! Week of dec 12, 2009!!!!!

[demonfox13]

nordlead said:

leatherhat said:
I'm going to repost what I said in the article comments:



Who the hell is buying this thing? All my friends, who all game to various extents haven't touched one since brawl came out. No one in my whole extended family, friends of friends, or even minor acquaintances don't but it. So who is? I know we talk about casuals and how wii sells to grandmas and children, but I always figured it was more as much a joke as it was true. But is there really this vast audience of Grandmas and soccer moms eating this up? How does a console with such little rapport with the gaming audience sell so well?

Before anyone asks, I'm not mad, the wiis hardware success means little to me. I just can't wrap my head around it.

I do I'm sorry all your friends haven't been interested in any of the great games since brawl, but that is probably because they refuse to even be remotely interested not because there are no good games.

Now answer this question. Who the hell buys a X360 or PS3. I know 0 people personally (other than myself) who have either.

I know 1 person who has the Wii out of so many (Queens, NY), needless to say I have slept over or borrowed the system for the few actual good games such as No More Heroes, TP, Masamune, Okami (prefered the PS2 version and am surprised that it didn't translate as well as it should have on the Wii). Wii sports, Mario Galaxy aren't my cup of tea, and SSBB I only enjoy when I am with several friends. When choosing my system couple of years back, I was looking at certain games I really wanted an expected such as MGS4 (hence why I got that bundle), FFXIII (broke my heart to see 360 get it as well, as at the time I believe that true rpg'ers are on nintendo or sony consoles), another game from team ICO, another set of game from Level-5 (loved dark cloud), more GT, more Ar Tonelico, more valkyrie profile (dunno if it will happen anymore), more Star Ocean (stupid move by SE, sales on 360 were mediocre at best and such an outdated graphics engine given the power of the system), etc.

Wii's a good piece of hardware, I just lost interest in Mario after SMB3 (I still think it's the best in series for gameplay and innovation), Zelda after Ocarina of Time, has only kept dissapointing me (when I say dissapointing, I mean it in terms of comparing them to Ocarina, and I HATED WW). I am also one of the few out there probably that didn't like the direction they took with the Metroid series during Prime. It is important to note that when looking at Nintendo games from generation to generation, it seems to be the NES that had the best titles overall (except RE4 Wii version and Ocarina of Time). I loved Bad Dudes, SMB3, Blaster Master, River City Ransom (if you haven't played this, you are not a true ninty fan, one of my favs of all time), Double Dragon series, TMNT arcade, etc. ....Wow thank you nordlead, you made me go off topic and now imma have to go back and play those games rofl.

Back on the actual topic, great sales for Wii, and i am glad PS3 is climbing at a steady pace. I don't know much of Wii's games for 2010 except maybe Zelda, but I am excited at the PS3's lineup in all categories: MAG, WKC, GOW3, Ar Tonelico 3, The Last Rebellion, Yakuza 3, 3D Dot Game Heroes, GT5 (crossing my fingers for FF VS XIII).