| Legend11 said: Well I remember reading thread after thread with links to articles about 360 hardware failure so what's the big deal about an article like this? I'm curious though, he has to be lying about the 4 year old winning some games of WiiSports Tennis by just waving his arms up and down right? |
<-- One Wii owner who doesn't see a problem with this thread.
I think it's possible that a 4 year old beat him in tennis by waving his arms around, but if that's true, then he really sucks at tennis. The tennis game isn't just arm waving, you can place the ball exactly where you want in your opponents' court and get them running back and forth.
I consistently beat my friends who don't have Wiis in all five games. Just because you aren't pressing buttons doesn't mean that there isn't skill involved.
Onto the OP: His lack of skills at Wii Sports aside, I see where he's coming from. Although there have been plenty of non-party game releases recently, the Wii is still suffering from launchitis. Its lineup is not as rich as it should be, and it doesn't have stellar titles in many genres. I'm with him in that I've very rarely played my Wii since about February after we got bored with Warioware. I picked up Wii Play last week and have been playing it all week, but between the end of February and the beginning of July, I used my Wii only to play VC titles and Gamecube titles.
The thing is, this mirrors my experience with every other console I've ever owned. I buy the console and a few games, play them for a while, and then I busy myself with other things for a while. Some new games come out, I play them, and then they, too, start to collect dust. The best games get dusted off once in a while, the mediocre ones don't. That's just how it goes.
In summary, a few of his points seem nitpicky and lame, but overall, I agree with where he's coming from. I do, however, think that he's making a mountain out of a mole hill, and that maybe his expectations for the Wii were too high.
