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disolitude on 22 April 2008
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naznatips said:
disolitude said:
Did anyone read that full interview with Mike and IGN? He was basically cornered in to giving this kind of an opinion about the wii as the questions were along the lines...

IGN: (laughter) I know! I think the same thing! It's like, "Come on, why are you buying this system?!"

@TheBigFatJ

I disagree in saying wii gets most attention beacuse of steady flow of great games. Nintendo made a big push early this year to release 3 of the biggest wii games but without mario Kart, wi fit and Smash Brothers wii game library would be as dry as a desert in 2008 thus far(library of good games I mean). I don't know a single Wii game coming out this christmas that is getting a lot of attention at this point.

Wii gets most attention for different reasons.

That's because Nintendo doesn't hype 10 games into the future. They only hype one set of games at a time. Once Mario Kart and Wii Fit are out of the way, they'll get ready to announce their holiday releases (probably at E3). The Wii sells on current games, not future games.  Nintendo prefers not to announce things years before release.  The exception to this rule is at a console's launch...

As far as why people are buying the system, obviously to play games. The Wii outsold the PS3 and 360 combined in worldwide software this week, and with far less hardware. Like it or not, the Wii is taking over all facets of video game sales. Obviously people are turning it on more often than their PS3s and 360s. Either that, or people are buying games just to stick them on a shelf. Either way, what's it matter? The Wii sells the most hardware, the most software, and costs the least to develop for.


I'll believe it when I see it at E3. It sounds like a dumb decission to me to be quiet until 2 months before the game release.  Game announcements fuel stories which bring impressions to gaming website ads and generate websites money. If nintendo doesn't want to contribute to them, they may not be getting a lot of positive press form the gaming community... Comments like mr. Epic games dissing the Wii may become more common then...