S.T.A.G.E. said:
Baron said:
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S.T.A.G.E. said:
Based on the amount of games offered the PS3 is at this moment the gamers console. The Xbox 360 may have the most popular games, but the fewest exclusives and a has the longest exclusive droughts for the past three years. The Wii U is coming out so we can excuse the Wii while it bows out. The casual market was had been used up and moved onto the next gimmick in the Kinect a year earlier and it hurt the Wii. The Wii had a good four years on top, but as all casual things, it never lasts.
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More exclusives =/= best games library. The Wii has the most exclusives. Why don't you consider that console to be the gamers console?
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The Wii has the most exclusives but they are not rated the highest. The PS3 has the highest rated exclusives of all the consoles, then comes the 360 and then the Wii. Why might you ask? The Wii's highest rated exclusives are first party, but their third party exclusive shovelware list is the largest percentage Ive seen. The PS2 had a higher percentage of high rated exclusives than the Wii did for sure. Way beyond it really. Most of the third parties really sucked at harnessing the Wii's attributes and that hurt it in that realm alot. The Wii is not the gamers console, it was the casual console but when the Kinect launched it weakened the Wii's sales numbers with the casuals. The core third party titles that were actually good on the Wii were having a hard time selling and people were wondering why. Well...its kind of obvious...the core aren't buying on the Wii but as for Nintendo first party its business as usual selling extremely well (especially in bundles).
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I think you're talking about averages, correct? The highest rated games of this gen are Mario Galaxy and Mario Galaxy 2. I agree the Wii has a lot of shovelware and compared to the PS3 and 360 a poor offering of 3rd party games but that doesn't make the good Wii's exclusives weak. In fact, one can argue the other two consoles have nothing to offer that can compete with Mario, Zelda, Metroid and Smash Bros. Just like the Wii has nothing to offer that can compete with Gears of War, Halo, Forza or Gran Turismo.
Ratings have nothing to do with games being for 'real' gamers. Therefor one cannot simply say console x is better because it has a higher amount of positively rated games. If the Wii only had Nintendo to rely on for exclusives the average ratings of its exclusive games would be much higher than either the 360 or PS3 exclusives. That doesn't mean anything.
Real gamers will buy/want multiple platforms.
