Will Wii offer more of what the Ps2 did or more of the DS?

[Sri Lumpa]

Welcome to the site iconeternal, even though you are probably Gballzack, blue3 and HUS combined (don't worry if you don't get it you will soon enough :().

Also, good for you on a good non-fanboy early post and hopefully you can keep on contributing such posts in the future.

As for your signature:
'You should try everything once in your life except incest, homosexualality and morris dancing' - Oscar Wylde (kind of)

I don't know about Oscar Wylde but I am pretty sure that Oscar Wilde tried the middle one (assuming that it is a typo and not a word I don't know).


As for the subject, it is not surprising that when comparing the Wii's first 12 months with the PS2's first 12 months that the PS2 has more 80= and 90+ games as the PS2 had the double advantage of the early Japanese launch which helped Japanese games to be better quality on average in the PS2's first US year as they would have had more development time and the advantage that the PS2 came hot off the PS1's success with only the Dreamcast as a competitor, with a major US publisher (EA) refusing to make Dreamcast games which would help the number of games total in the first year and thus the likelyhood of having more of them being 80+ (by the simple principle of throwing enough games out and see which of those stick at 80+).

On the other hand the Wii had the double disadvantage of coming cold off the GC's lackluster sales, thus ensuring low third party support in its launch year, and an unproven controller that not only developers are not used to (making them doing great controlled games with it first time out less likely and thus their first games having lower scores) but reviewers were not used to and even afraid of, thus making them less likely to award high scores to good games if they can't get used to the new controls.

With all that said I expect things to get much better for the Wii as many publishers have said that they were putting more effort towards the Wii so the number of games should increase and as developers can learn from both the successes and the failures of the first year games the average quality should go up too and as more Wiimote controlled games come out there will come a point where it is as natural for reviewers to use it as the gamepads they have used for the last 10-15 years and thus less points will get docked for it.

So in the coming months, when comparing the Wii's first n months to the PS2's first n months (or 360 or PS3) I expect the Wii to catch up to them (especialy around xmas '08) and then surpass them as combined with 3rd party support similar to the PS2 there will be Nintendo's better 1st party games (as compared against Sony, although they do have plenty of great games too) and a bigger number of casual games than the Ps2, which means a bigger number of 80+ casual games. All this combined probably will make the Wii have more 80+ and 90+ games than most any other console before.