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Porcupine_I on 04 April 2010
wholikeswood said:
Porcupine_I said:
if the WII is doing THAT horrible, then why are Microsoft aiming for their Market?

Same mistake as CGI made.

Greenberg never said the Wii is doing horribly. In fact, he said it's done "really well"; he merely said that 3rd party on the Wii is struggling (which is true).


Is no one reading the actual article? It's short! *bangs head against wall*

i know this is off topic, but i feel absolutely honored to be compared to CGI



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Squilliam on 04 April 2010

Greenburg obviously didn't finish his sentence. Now if he doesn't finish his sentence he can't have his pudding! What he really meant was "Third parties are struggling on the Wii... because they retarded sheep, but Microsoft will play the better shepherd and take these little sheep to ground with rich grazing where they don't have to think"



Tease.

Millennium on 04 April 2010

Third parties don't struggle on the Wii at all. This is the whole problem: halfhearted development and marketing efforts. Even new gamers quickly learn when a developer isn't taking their chosen console seriously, and they don't take kindly to it, which translates directly into sales. If these companies were taking the Wii even half as seriously as they took their blockbusters on the 360 and PS3, they would be seeing sales in proportion to their efforts. They don't, so they don't, and it's as simple as that.

The hell of it is, even the so-called "poor sales" on the Wii still make money for the most part, which is more than can be said for most of their HD games: you can verify this yourself by looking at their financial statements. They'd rather throw everything down the HD money pit, just for the sake of making pretty pictures, than putting in a real effort with reasonable expectations and a focus on quality. They lost the graphics-are-everything bet, and now they're committing corporate seppuku rather than admitting they were wrong and focusing on things that matter again.



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There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.

makingmusic476 on 04 April 2010

If publishers "struggle" on Wii, I can't wait to see how they do with Natal.



makingmusic476 on 04 April 2010
CGI-Quality said:
makingmusic476 said:
If publishers "struggle" on Wii, I can't wait to see how they do with Natal.

Hmmm.....I wonder if you'll be attacked for this as well.

???

Edit: Oh, you edited your comment.  I get it now. :P

But yeah, if publishers can't seem to make a success on Wii, I'd love to know how they'll work with somethng as foreign as Natal.  And unlike the Wii, Natal doesn't have something like Nintendo's first party titles to help it along.  It'll be entirely up to Rare and third parties to make it a success.



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killeryoshis on 04 April 2010

This is why you don't diss wii

You'll end up with a 100+ post thread

Also this situation is nothing diffrent than what the nes went through so this is normal. In matter a fact. Nintendo NEVER got along with 3rd parties



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makingmusic476 on 04 April 2010

K, this fight ends here. All three of you (yes, including you, wholikeswood), get out of this thread.



Seece on 04 April 2010
makingmusic476 said:

K, this fight ends here. All three of you (yes, including you, wholikeswood), get out of this thread.

They need to stop bickering, but why can't they continue posting in a decent fashion?



 

makingmusic476 on 04 April 2010
Seece said:
makingmusic476 said:

K, this fight ends here. All three of you (yes, including you, wholikeswood), get out of this thread.

They need to stop bickering, but why can't they continue posting in a decent fashion?

I think the intent behind my post was pretty obvious.  If one of them were to post some calmly worded response to someone else in a page or two, do you really think I'd do anything about it?

Talk about focusing too much on the details.  :P



Seece on 04 April 2010
makingmusic476 said:
Seece said:
makingmusic476 said:

K, this fight ends here. All three of you (yes, including you, wholikeswood), get out of this thread.

They need to stop bickering, but why can't they continue posting in a decent fashion?

I think the intent behind my post was pretty obvious.  If one of them were to post some calmly worded response to someone else in a page or two, do you really think I'd do anything about it?

Talk about focusing too much on the details.  :P

I'm not sure, the :p face tells me no ...