mantlepiecek said:
| jarrod said:
Well, looking just at Nintendo's Wii lineup...
Platformers
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Wario Land: Shake It!
- New PlayControl! Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Kirby's Epic Yarn
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Super Mario All-Stars: Limited Edition
RPGs
- Super Paper Mario
- Pokemon Battle Revolution (sort of)
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- Captain Rainbow
- Takt of Magic
- Xenoblade
- The Last Story
Games that aren't either
- Wii Sports (sports)
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (adventure)
- Excite Truck (racing)
- Wii Play (minigame)
- Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (minigame)
- Eyeshield 21: The fField's Greatest Warrior (sports)
- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (quiz)
- Mario Party 8 (minigame)
- Mario Strikers Charged (sports)
- Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast (racing)
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (adventure)
- BWii: Battalion Wars 2 (strategy)
- Link's Crossbow Training (shooting)
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (sports)
- Endless Ocean (simulation)
- Everybody's General Knowledge Training (quiz)
- Wii Chess (puzzle)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (fighting)
- Mario Kart Wii (racing)
- Wii Fit (exercise)
- Disaster: Day of Crisis (action)
- Mario Super Sluggers (sports)
- Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (horror)
- Wii Music (rhythm)
- Animal Crossing: City Folk (communication)
- New Play Control! Pikmin (strategy)
- New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (sports)
- Excitebots: Trick Racing (racing)
- Punch-Out!! (sports)
- New Play Control! Pikmin 2 (strategy)
- Trace Memory R: A Journey into Lost Memories (adventure)
- New Play Control! Chibi-Robo (adventure)
- Wii Sports Resort (sports)
- Metroid Prime Trilogy (adventure)
- Wii Fit Plus (exercise)
- Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (sports)
- NHK Red & White Quiz Battle (quiz)
- Reginliev the Slasher (action)
- Endless Ocean: Blue World (simulation)
- And-Kensaku (quiz)
- Sin & Punishment: Star Successor (shooting)
- Metroid: Other M (adventure)
- Wii Party (minigame)
- FlingSmash (puzzle)
- PokePark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure (minigame)
- Mario Sports Mix (sports)
...yes, even with just Nintendo alone, there's obviously no variety whatsoever. ;)
And if I added Wii's digital services (which you seem to be arguing for in your PSN diatribe), the results would be even more lopsided.
Cherrypicking specific subgenres is always going to leave a deficit, regardless of the platform. Where are PS3's roguelikes? It's rail shooters? It's sidescrolling action RPGs? Actually, even among the ones you listed, does PS3 have any exclusive racing sims besides GT5? Does it have any exclusive zombie shooters at all?
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Yeah, PS3 has GT 5 prologue and GT 5.
Dead Nation is its zombie shooter.
2d sidescrollers are all on the PSN just like I said. Its not cherrypicking at all. Does the wii digital services have genres that the main games don't? All I see in "other" are adventure games, sports, minigames, puzzles, simulation, arcade racers.
On-rail shooters have evloved into FPS's already. Why did the wii fans feel so bad about dead space extraction being exclusive and not getting Dead Space? Cause they are not in the same leaugue.
Having a bunch of sports, simulation and puzzle (I will admit about adventure being a good enough genre) doesn't equal variety.
Wii has good games I don't see why we are even arguing over this. Just on one statement as well. That nintendo lacks genres. Take it relative to the poster I was answering to and you will understand. Wii has a deficit in a lot of genres that's what I am talking about. If I was a platformer/rpg fan wii would have been a paradise, just saying.
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lol. So no on exclusive racing sims outside GT5 then. Anyone serious about racing sims would be better served avoiding the watered down genre entries on consoles entirely though, and just souping up their PCs. That's really the only 'platform' that excels for them.
Dead Nation? Well, I guess Zombie Panic in Wonderland counts for Wii then. So Wii and PS3 have the exact same number of exclusive zombie shooters, neat!
Still waiting on you naming an exclusive PS3 roguelike, rail shooter or sidecrolling ARPG though, but your deflections and excuses (PSN has different sidescrollers! Rail shooters evolved!) are amusing. PSN even if you want... you're actually missing my point, basically ALL consoles have genre deficits when you parse down enough. And excelling in one area far past the rest (like Wii with platformers, or 360 with shooters) doesn't inherently mean the system doesn't have variety. PS3 not really excelling above the competition in any one area doesn't mean it has the most variety, it just means it doesn't really stand out in a single area.
