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1. They Cannibalize third party sales and therefore ensure weak third party support (not by volume but by quality)

I disagree, third party support is fine for the moment, developers just arent putting thier weight behind Wii, in a couple of years it could be the wii, not the 360 getting games like Bioshock (although i personally doubt it). In time however, this should be a self fixing problem as deveolopers get more accosutomed to the remote and fully exploit the system leading to higher quality third party titles which will be sucessful sales-wise.

2. Due to this, the overall volume of quality software is relatively low forcing Everyday gamers spend their time waiting for big Nintendo games to come out a few times a year or to buy another system to fill the gap.

I agree with this, there is often a couple of months of great games (march/april = brawl, mario kart, wii fit) but then nothing for another 2-4 months. Hopefully Nintendo will remedy this by simply better staggering thier releases.

3. Complete lack of third party ports this generation. If you only own a Wii you are going to miss out on a lot of great games this round.

Agree here, games on 360/PS3 are technically impossible to replicate on Wii, this should've insured unquie enjoyable experineces but instead means titles like MGS4, FFXIII, GTA IV, RE5 will never happen and Wii owners will miss out, unless they want stripped down ports.

4. Delayed games- delaying games so they don't bite into each others sales is
a good business plan but it's stupid how Nintendo will always announces release dates and then always delays them for this obvious reason but say it's for quality purposes

Sometimes they do get delayed for quality sometimes to not cannabilize, the problem is if they didn't announce games then they would get ripped by analysts, fans, gamers etc so they need to announce things, they need to show a strong software line-up to convince people to buy the console and keepdemand high. Its unfortunate but its something we're gonna have to live with that you can't entirely blame Nintendo for, if people would just show some paitence.

5. Willingness to sell what is essentially a game cube with a new controller for $250. For $250 we really should be getting better hardware and graphics than a 5-7 year old system (how about DVD play back or some real storage space).

5. Unable/unwilling to provide first party titles for any one system that last more than a few years before going into a downward cycle of Mario baseball, tennis, break dancing, Frisbee golf, knitting, accounting BS

6. Unwillingness to create or bring back franchises that their fans ask for while repeating the same franchises over and over (If they are listining to us and what we want we should have 5 Kid Icarus Games already and can I have a damned next gen 2D Metroid please?)

7. Overpriced licencing fees

Is this still a problem, games like cooking mama and carnival games surely wouldn't beon Wii if licensing fee's are still high, can anyone shed any light on this?

8. Lack of quality online service

Agree here, but this is Nintendo's first real foray, they won't do an xbox live right off the bat, it will improve substantially over the next few years as Nintendo tweak the interface, improve performance, add new content etc.

9. Refusal to make games that aren't pastel.

Not sure about this, Disiaster Day of Crises, Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess, a few third party ttiles would disgaree, I think, the majority of Nintendo's games just work with a pastel style, I doubt mario would look good (and I doubt fans would be very happy) if SMG or MK:Wii had life-like graphics. They don't refuse, their games just work better with.

10. lack of complex story driven games or games with narrative structures beyond "he he" and "ha ha"


 



Manchester United 2008-09 Season - Trophies & Records

Barclays Premier League 2008-09: 1st // UEFA Champions League 2008-09: Finals (Yet To Play) // FIFA Club World Cup: Winners // UEFA Super Cup: Runners-up // FA Cup: Semi-Finals // League (Carling) Cup: Winners // FA (Charity) Community Shield: Winners
Records: First British Team To Win FIFA Club World Cup, New Record for No. Of Consecutive Clean Sheets In Premier League, New English & British League Records for Minutes Without Conceding, New Record For Going Undeafeated In Champions League (25 games ongoing), First British Team To Beat FC Porto In Portugal, First Club To Defeat Arsenal At The Emirates In European Competition, First Team In English League Football History To Win 3 Titles Back To Back On Two Seperate Ocassions