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LordTheNightKnight on 15 April 2011
Khuutra said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Khuutra said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Khuutra said:

Remind me again of the release years of the SNES and the N64, oh, but it has slipped my mind

It's not the release, but how long before discontinuing. The N64 and GC lasted about 5 years, the SNES/Super Famicom lasted 8 (1990-1998), and the NES about 10.

1. Discontinuation of hardware is not the same as meaningful software support, whichh has rarely survived subsequent console launches, which is what I mean by support.

2. The conversation you insinuated yourself into was related to the point that Nintendo is not dropping the ball on the Wii in terms of support, not the semantics which you misunderstood in the first place.

Well you should have clearly stated your point, not blame me for thinking another of the possible meanings you left open.

But you're still wrong. The support for the SNES and NES was still longer than your claim.

No, you have a history of misunderstanding people when they're being relativley clear, me in particular; I am fully comfortable letting you shoulder this one, a-yup.

As to the last: firstly you are missing the core point, which is that Nintendo is not abandoning the Wii in a way that isn't in keeping with their treatment of previous mainline consoles. Secondly you have yet to qualify meaningful support for the NES and  (especially) SNES post-successor-launch.


I'm not missing that point. I'm calling on your claim of no support. And don't claim I'm misunderstanding, when you wrote "support" only in your first reply, not "meaningful support".

"If the rumors are true then Nintendo will have supported the Wii for six years"

If you didn't mean any support at all, then I'll give you left it out, but don't act like I'm misunderstanding a qualifier you didn't write.



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pariz on 15 April 2011

I think there's time enough ahead of us to keep enjoying our Wii.



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Mr Khan on 15 April 2011
Khuutra said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

Well you should have clearly stated your point, not blame me for thinking another of the possible meanings you left open.

But you're still wrong. The support for the SNES and NES was still longer than your claim.

No, you have a history of misunderstanding people when they're being relativley clear, me in particular; I am fully comfortable letting you shoulder this one, a-yup.

As to the last: firstly you are missing the core point, which is that Nintendo is not abandoning the Wii in a way that isn't in keeping with their treatment of previous mainline consoles. Secondly you have yet to qualify meaningful support for the NES and  (especially) SNES post-successor-launch.

The NES did pretty well, but it was the only one.

Was Wrecking Crew '98 for the SNES?



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TheSource on 15 April 2011

Wii will still get support in 2012, 2013 - it probably won't look much different than DS in 2010-2011 in those years. I do think 2011 is the last big year for relevant core support, but the dancing games, movie games, fitness games, and so on will keep Wii going into 2012 and beyond at a pretty high level of performance.

From Nintendo the following are still likely / confirmed:

Rhythm Heaven, Zelda, Wii Play: Motion, Kirby.

Possibly: Pikmin 3, Wii Relax (there was some rumor about a light device recently for Wii)

Might go West: Pandora, Xenoblade, Last Story

It would still make sense for them to do a bunch of other stuff too that would sell well to the base but not require their top-level development teams - Mario Party, DKC Returns 2, NSMB Wii 2 but we'll have to see.

Third Parties:

Dragon Quest X, Inazuma Eleven, Mario & Sonic, Just Dance 3.

Those are all fairly big games and we'll certainly get more announced later in the year.



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miz1q2w3e on 15 April 2011

The rumors aren't even confirmed yet! What's with everybody all of a sudden??

I for one don't want to say goodbye to my Wii just yet! I just want more games for it

I think the lack of games recently (and near future) for Wii might be what gave these rumors some credibility but they're just pre-E3 rumors is all



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Khuutra on 15 April 2011
LordTheNightKnight said:
Khuutra said:
LordTheNightKnight said:

Well you should have clearly stated your point, not blame me for thinking another of the possible meanings you left open.

But you're still wrong. The support for the SNES and NES was still longer than your claim.

No, you have a history of misunderstanding people when they're being relativley clear, me in particular; I am fully comfortable letting you shoulder this one, a-yup.

As to the last: firstly you are missing the core point, which is that Nintendo is not abandoning the Wii in a way that isn't in keeping with their treatment of previous mainline consoles. Secondly you have yet to qualify meaningful support for the NES and  (especially) SNES post-successor-launch.

I'm not missing that point. I'm calling on your claim of no support. And don't claim I'm misunderstanding, when you wrote "support" only in your first reply, not "meaningful support".

"If the rumors are true then Nintendo will have supported the Wii for six years"

If you didn't mean any support at all, then I'll give you left it out, but don't act like I'm misunderstanding a qualifier you didn't write.

When you insert yourself into a conversation it's up to you to familiarize yourself with the context of that same conversation, in particular theh original statement by SmokedHostage to which I replied.

Again: not taking responsibility for your lack of understanding, not in this case.

You're free to have the last word in this conversation, I'm done with your brand of pedanticalness for now.



oniyide on 15 April 2011

I dont want it to end because i feel that there is still more to do on Wii, im still waiting for the Motion Plus games, improved online, improved VC support and for the love of god, put out a Mario Tennis/Golf game, a new one. If they end the Wii without that game or games. Seriously if i dont get a least that, then WIi would have been the worst console ive ever owned 



Khuutra on 15 April 2011
Mr Khan said:
Khuutra said:

No, you have a history of misunderstanding people when they're being relativley clear, me in particular; I am fully comfortable letting you shoulder this one, a-yup.

As to the last: firstly you are missing the core point, which is that Nintendo is not abandoning the Wii in a way that isn't in keeping with their treatment of previous mainline consoles. Secondly you have yet to qualify meaningful support for the NES and  (especially) SNES post-successor-launch.

The NES did pretty well, but it was the only one.

Was Wrecking Crew '98 for the SNES?

That's a bout what I thought, and I have no idea.  I don't know that it would really qualify as meaningful support, though.



kitler53 on 15 April 2011
Conegamer said:
Raze said:

Its been pretty typical of every gen for Nintendo yet.

Wii - "OMG lol casualz!"

GC -"OMG Kiddie!"

N64 - "OMG Kiddie!"

SNES - "OMG Genesis!"

I will say when the Wii was announced, I was like WTF Nintendo?! But when I got to play it and eventually own one, it made sense.

What it did do is bring my gaming connection with my dad full circle. When I was like 4, we used to play Atari 2600 together a lot, and we played Super Mario Bros on the NES together. He played less and less as the games became more 1 player style. He came back to gaming with the Wii, completing the circle before he passed away last year. So, in the end, I'm glad the Wii came around, it brought my gaming mentor back into gaming for one last round. =)

That's a very sweet story and a very valid point

A lot of people forget about just what the Wii has done. 10 years ago a lot of people wouldn't be caught dead with a gaming console. Now we can all talk about Mario or at least Wii Sports, and the Nintendo faithful get all the support they ever wanted.

Without the Wii, gaming may well have been on its way out. You can hate on the Wii, but not the effect it had on the industry as a whole

the part that annoys me is you probably actually believe that.  anyways, despite all of the talk about how expansive the wii was -- the data suggests otherwise.

gc xbox ps2 = 21.75 24.65 142.87 = 189.27   ... and we know the ps2 is very under tracked.

wii 360 ps3 = 86.32 52.92 49.25 = 188.49



miz1q2w3e on 15 April 2011
kitler53 said:

the part that annoys me is you probably actually believe that.  anyways, despite all of the talk about how expansive the wii was -- the data suggests otherwise.

gc xbox ps2 = 21.75 24.65 142.87 = 189.27   ... and we know the ps2 is very under tracked.

wii 360 ps3 = 86.32 52.92 49.25 = 188.49

The gen isn't over yet. Not even close