Girl Gamer Elite said:
windbane said:
Girl Gamer Elite said:
Why would I want to watch a DVD on my Wii when I can buy a top of the line DVD player for $20?
That same DVD player put into the Wii could easily add more than $20 to the production cost of the Wii and would have significantly cut down on its lifespan just as using your PS3 as a Blu-Ray player significantly cuts down on its lifespan. The only time putting a multimedia device in a console made sense was last generation when everyone wanted a DVD player but couldn't afford one. |
I hate to break this to you, but you can play DVDs on your Wii. All you need is a mod chip. Nintendo just withheld the firmware to do it. It would be nice to just have to transport the Wii instead of an additional $100 "top of the line" dvd player, since you need an upconverting one that will not be $20 unless you want a piece of junk. As for the lifespan of the system...I've played all of my DVDs in my PS2 for years and it still works fine unless the discs are scratched. I'm already having trouble playing scratched discs with my Wii (I rent games and people can't take care of discs). The PS3 has no problem reading discs due to blu-ray discs being unscratchable. Also, even if a "top of the line" dvd player cost only $20, the manufacturing costs would obviously not be nearly that. I hope you understand how profit works. Nintendo likes it, certainly, because they are currently getting away with ripping people off on the console while Sony loses money on their PS3 sales. But hey, as long as no one cares about having dvd player functionality, I guess it won't matter. Same goes for online play, no hard drive, slow copying to sd cards, terrible battery life on controllers (basically forcing you to buy Nyko Charge pack or spend hundreds on batteries over the lifespan), and lack of graphical increase from last generation. As long as no one cares, Nitendo doesn't much either. I'm a sucker, too, since I bought a Wii. I'm just glad I have my PS3 for everything the Wii lacks. |
Nintendo is the only contender offering their product at a reasonable price and you somehow turn that into ripping off the customers. I guess you don't feel cutting out Backward Compatibility to make up for the mistake of forcing Blu-Ray on the PS3 isn't an ill decision, lol. I wonder if you seriously believe half the stuff you're spouting in this ridiculous post of yours. What good is a harddrive if it limits the longevity and reliability of your console's hardware? Where ever will I store all my MP3's, TIVO recordings, bootleg movies, and patches for my games that weren't properly quality tested before being launched? What good are increased graphics if they double the cost of your console from last generation? What good are graphics that require a greater investment and risk for developers? What good are increased graphics that make development far more expensive and time consuming? What good are increased graphics that reduce game length as a trade off in development to get a game out in the same time? You don't seem to understand that graphics beyond last generation aren't as simple as taking one step up the stairs. The Wii-motes batteries have not been an issue for me nor have I heard of them being a problem for anyone else and a Nyko charger is cheap if your really must have one, sorry you feel that is robbery... But thank goodness you have a PS3, why at that price, its practically a steal, thank goodness Sony is willing to sacrifice profit, integrity and the quality of games forced out prematurely to float a flopped console just so they can sell you such a wonderful console at a loss. Why, Sony are the freedom fighters of the video game world! They're heroes really. They sell a console at a loss just so you can have the best and hold nothing back. Sure some might mistake them for arrogant and incompetant fools masquerading as professionals in a crumbling company, but those people obviously don't understand the quality of the Sony brand. The Six-Axis whent beyond the Wii-mote to show Nintendo how motion sensing is really done making games like LAIR the undisputed Game of the Year and the PS-Eye is going to sell millions revolutionizing innovation as we know it. And if I want to play PS2 games, I'll buy a PS2, who ever said Backwards Compatibility was the standard anyway? And if I really want to play them on my PS3, I'll search for one of the vanishing 60gb skus and buy it along with the adaptor for the PS2 memory cards and download the PS2 upscaller so it can look at least as good as it was suppossed to on the PS2, could it be any simpler? Sure even then the 60gb SKu isn't 100% BC, but who cares, all the games that matter to me are, and that's what's important. Besides, who plays games from last gen anyway? And who wouldn't rather play games at 1080dpi with copious frame rate drops than games at 720 with smoother frame rate consistancy, bigger numbers are what's important in being true next gen. Graphics are more important to me than gameplay, because gameplay and innovation don't define a generation, graphics do. It's a little something called History. |
