Boom Blox to be one of the Main Third Party Exclusive Titles for Wii?

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Grampy said:

That's not raining on my parade, I hope they do port it over for others to enjoy. I can't imagine any way the control scheme will give the same experience. The camera control will be fine, aiming is no problem but throwing a baseball with your traditional controller is just not that much fun. It also is a game that will not benefit at all from HD graphics.

Besides, can anyone tell me where this childish "I like system X so I want all other systems to fail" nonsense came from? You don't see it elsewhere. I drive an Acura but I don't have a wish to see Lexus fail, I use Scott toilet paper but I've never wished Charmin to go belly up. I prefer the Wii but I harbor no wish for fire to rain down from heaven on Sony or MS. I wouldn't argue in these places at all except for the pigheaded the Wii is different so it must be crap silliness.

Hey it's just a damn game system and unless Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo is sending you a monthly check you really don't have to shill for them. Get over it, new systems come out, sometimes they are different, sometimes the difference is good although that is never believed or accepted by the users of the older technology. If the the change is good then it will become the norm until the next innovation. Someday the users of motion controllers will bitterly resist the new system that follows the pupil of your eye or whatever is next. Good thing or we would all be playing with one button joysticks or Pong paddles.

 

 The beggar-thy-neighbour attitude of console owners comes from the way the gaming market tends to allow for only one winner. There are feedback mechanisms which tend to make a leading console into a dominant console, getting the bulk of the software selection and other services, and thereby devaluing the competing platforms.

Using your car analogy, imagine Lexus as the dominant car got access to smoother, faster roads than your Acura. Whole traffic systems built for the Lexus which go places your Acura can't go on the cheaper roads. You'd be pretty jealous, and you'd want Lexus to fail so that those prime motorways were built for Acura instead. You want to have the Acura you prefer, and the comfort of driving on the most/best roads to maximize your experience.

Since the NES, there have only been a couple generations where a single platform hasn't completely eclipsed its competition. And even in the Genesis/SNES and N64/PS1 generations, the leading platform had a major lead in software support from third parties. Taken together, and with the advantage of preconceived notions of how the console market goes, PS3 and 360 might stand against Wii thanks to their similar design capabilities. It's just as likely that their support will get crushed quite thin by a surging Wii userbase.