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naznatips on 24 March 2008
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darklich13 said:
naznatips said:
darklich13 said:
^How can you compare WiiWare to XBLA when you haven't played either.

I have played Xbox Live Arcade, and I'm quite capable of reading game information. Unless all of these developers are lying about what's in their games (technically possible I suppose), I have a pretty good idea of what will be included in them. Many of them I've seen videos of in action as well. Stickball was pointing out future XBLA games that he didn't think would be matched by games of comparable complexity on Wii (games like Castle Crashers). I was responding to that with future WiiWare games that appeared to be of equal or greater complexity. Fair enough right?


It just seams like your attacking XBLA for no reason other than to say WiiWare is going to be better.


To the contrary, I'm not the one who brought up WiiWare.  It was brought up by others early in the topic, and then Stickball brought it up again in his post which I was responding to. I said that the Wii offered superior quality of game library with Virtual Console, and comparable quality of future games are announced with WiiWare.  I'm arguing (on the topic) that XBLA is not a superior digital arcade service. 

It is if you only look at new titles, but only for a short time.  Look at reviews for PSN titles and look at how quickly it's gaining on Live Arcade in quality digital titles.  Then look at the feature sets for the Wii Ware games coming in a few months.  I believe that XBLA is the weakest overall online arcade system against Virtual Console/WiiWare and PSN. 

IMO this is because of 2 things:  1) WiiWare and PSN share comparable new development and 2) They have much larger and more impressive backlibraries which Live is simply not able to compete with.