I thought posting HipHop Gamer material on here got you banned.  Or am I confusing that with a wish I had?

Hip hop gamer overhyping an upcoming FPS that looks average eh, well that's never happened before...

if thats true then we can say that nintendo envies every big third party on the hd consoles.

There are far too many top rate FPS games on other platforms to be "envious" of a title like Conduit 2 on the Wii that likely wouldn't even register as a blip on the radar for any other platform.

About the only thing it has going for it are the Wii remote pointer controls, which aren't even anything to crow about anymore given FPS Move integration on the PS3.

The problem with blog type sites like Hip Hop Gamer is that they are allowed to be extremely biased due to the blog/opinion format that isn't constrained by the "objectivism" that is supposedly present in more journalistic news sources.

You can bet that if High Voltage gave the Hip Hop Gamer show an exclusive interview or exclusive access to inside information, etc. it's going to result in positive hype/coverage as hype is one of the things blog sites pretty much depend upon to stay relevant.

Controversy, of course being the other thing, because how can you expect to stay relevant if you don't have a chunk of people visiting even if for no other reason than to say how much they disagree with what the blogger himself may not even believe is true.

Um, lower budget. The costs of games on those other systems is stupidly ignored, and just mention the few hits as though they magically make up for all the money being lost by most of the developers.

And lower sales isn't an answer to the above since a) those sales are the developers' fault due to neglect, and b) flops are still fewer despite that.

If I was Sony or Microsoft, I would be far more envious of Dragon Quest X or Monster Hunter 3

Why so quick to defend?

If "lower budget" is one of the better things going for Conduit 2, most people really ought to reconsider buying it considering that the difference in price between Halo Reach or Killzone 3 on launch was a mere $10 more than Conduit 2.

It's already accepted that 3rd parties have had a notoriously difficult time producing hits for the Wii relative to the number of titles released. No one can wave this off because they were "lower budget" titles either. The level of success is directly reflected by the number of such hits currently being released. Very few relative to other platforms. And no platform has had a monopoly on games that failed to turn a profit.

There is no need to defend the limited catalog of shooters on the Wii; that's not why people bought the system when the best shooters are undisputably on other platforms.

Good point. I'm going to play Conduit 2 instead of Halo Reach because it's lower budget.

i know when i pick out a game things like low development budget is a key buying decision factor.  i inivite all of my friends over and say "you see those terrible graphics and bland gameplay; you can really see the profitablility in this games..."

That wasn't the intention of my comment. So your response doesn't work, as it's not addressing my actual point.

I was only addressing the claim that the only advantage to using the Wii was the controls. That isn't defending anything on the Wii. It's attacking a false claim.