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IllegalPaladin on 11 June 2007
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ookaze said:
IllegalPaladin said:

I don't know why people keep trying to compare the Wii to the PS3 and 360. Sony and Microsoft have said that they don't view the Wii and direct competition and Nintendo has said that they're not going after the same market as Sony and Microsoft.

I personally think that Nintendo is going after everybody who doesn't want to get a HDTV while Sony and Microsoft are banking on people making the upgrade. I've tried the Wii on our HDTV and I can say that it looks like total crap when compared to a SDTV (yes, it was even displayed in a 4:3 aspect ratio too).


People try to compare the Wii to the PS3 and XB360 because they are all game consoles of the same generation, so they are perfectly comparable.

And yes, Sony and MS and Nintendo say things, OK. Since when are they saying the truth and only the truth?

You're nuts if you believe everything they say. Besides, they can say everything they want, view things like they want to, but they're all still competing for the home console gaming market. When Nintendo say they aren't going for the same market, it doesn't mean the market they want doesn't include the market Sony and MS want. It actually includes it!

And no, Nintendo doesn't go after everybody that don't want to get a HDTV, they go after everybody.

And I can tell you your HDTV is crap, like most LCD and Plasmas anyway: most can't display SD correctly. I have a Wii and a HDTV (55" Full HD SXRD) too, and the Wii looks FAR BETTER on the HDTV than it did on my old SDTV (52" RPTV too). Even the GC games (576i) look better on this HDTV.

 

As for the logic of XB360/PS3 owners, I think that's hope and damage control. Hope can keep you alive a long time, when everything looks desperate.
Then again, games should be what drives you to a console, provided the price is not over the value you give the console + the games you plan on buying. I plan to buy a PS3 for some very specific RPG and to have a good BD player for my HDTV. But I'll wait for a price cut, as the price overshadow its value for me right now.

Heh, interesting that you say that. We have pretty much the same thing (KDS-R60XBR2) and find that a regular SDTV is better for the Wii. The problems we would get with the Wii apart from it not looking as good was that we get problems with the Wiimote and sensor bar at the comfortable distance from the TV where the couches are. We tried playing that Dragon Ball Z game on the Wii and we would have to stand directly infront of the TV and sensor bar for the game to even allow us to play. Wiisports and Wiiplay acted a little better in that it wouldn't require us to stand infront of the TV to make the game work, but sitting more than a couple of feet away from the sensor bar (even set above and below the TV) would make it look like your hand was really twitchy, where we wouldn't get this problem on the SDTV even if we were at the same distance we were at with the HDTV.