| disolitude said: @TheBigFatJ The wii is your prefference then. When I go on my wii I get a lot of silence as none of my freinds own it. Besides what % of wii games are online. Mario Strikers, Medal of Honor 2, Smash Bros, Mario Kart...any others? |
I'm not sure -- I have tons of Wii games (over 20), so I'd have to look through the collection. Off of the top of my head, there is that list and also you'd add Guitar Hero 3 to it. Mario Strikers online is fun, but these days people are amazing at the game so competition is at a very, very high level.
But most console time I spend playing games online is clearly with the Wii, as I find its games simply more fun than the 360 games online. GTA 4 was okay, but the overall quality of the online service was very low, and it was much more fun with friends than with strangers. With Mario Kart, this isn't the case as two of us can play online together with 12 people from around the world and it's always a blast. I never notice any game issues due to latency, like I did with GTA 4 on the 360, and we never have a hard time finding a full game and playing 30 seconds after we decide to do so.
GTA 4 was much more difficult, as you'd finally lock down a crowd and start playing, then people would leave, then you'd end up with a dead server and no one else would join. It was pretty time consuming to get good games going with strangers.
Some game experiences you don't get on the Wii, which is why I have the 360. As much as I don't care about shooters on consoles, Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is still a fun game for the 360, and it's fun to play with friends. But my overall point is that you can do online as good or better, and you can do it without charging a nusiance of a fee.
It just feels like MS is trying to nickel and dime its users for a service that should either be a hell of a lot better, or it should be free. And the very fact that MS points don't translate directly to dollars is intended to confuse the weak among us into thinking that they're spending less than they are.
