Wii Ramblings

[.jayderyu]

kuraobi said:

At work, I have a few colleagues who game, and they all have a PS3. Well, they love it but they still spend all their time on WoW... And when they actually buy and play PS3 games, it's CoD, Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed, and I'm pretty sure their next game will be GT5. Last time we talked about videogames, they where mocking the Wii ("graphics suck", "the games are stupid", "the GPU can't display blood"). I told them about Muramasa, Madworld, HotD Overkill, they didn't know any of these games. I mentioned RE4 Wii, they didn't even know about this one... Actually all they knew was Wii Sports, Raving Rabbids, Wii Fit and Mario Kart.

I'm sure your friends are pretty nice guys, but isn't this somewhat very hypocritical of them?

I played WoW come launch day. Even back then WoW was the graphicaly inferior game compared to EQ2. Though many preferred WoW art style over EQ2 technical prowess. Since then WoW has had minimal graphical increases.http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq/technology.html  seriously look at them. In the days of 512-1gb graphics cards they recommend 128mb. Since launch we have seen Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, Ryzom, Tabula Rasa, Vanguard, and many more which are noticibly technicly superior to WoW.

Then theres the fact that Blizzard and Nintendo are near indistinguishable in their business practice. Both companies polish their games, both use supportive products(Pokemon CCG/cartoon/stuff, WoW CCG/RPG/Miniatures..). Both have in house experimental design departments. Both are interested in mass appeal. It's known that Blizzard believes that easy to learn difficult to master has been key to their games. Blizzard chooses lower tech to appeal to the masses. yeesh, Blizzard == Nintendo for PC.

I'm sure they are great guys, but this sounds like that words of a bandwagon than people who think for themselves :\