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disolitude said:
naznatips said:
disolitude said:
Did anyone read that full interview with Mike and IGN? He was basically cornered in to giving this kind of an opinion about the wii as the questions were along the lines...

IGN: (laughter) I know! I think the same thing! It's like, "Come on, why are you buying this system?!"

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I disagree in saying wii gets most attention beacuse of steady flow of great games. Nintendo made a big push early this year to release 3 of the biggest wii games but without mario Kart, wi fit and Smash Brothers wii game library would be as dry as a desert in 2008 thus far(library of good games I mean). I don't know a single Wii game coming out this christmas that is getting a lot of attention at this point.

Wii gets most attention for different reasons.

That's because Nintendo doesn't hype 10 games into the future. They only hype one set of games at a time. Once Mario Kart and Wii Fit are out of the way, they'll get ready to announce their holiday releases (probably at E3). The Wii sells on current games, not future games. Nintendo prefers not to announce things years before release. The exception to this rule is at a console's launch...

As far as why people are buying the system, obviously to play games. The Wii outsold the PS3 and 360 combined in worldwide software this week, and with far less hardware. Like it or not, the Wii is taking over all facets of video game sales. Obviously people are turning it on more often than their PS3s and 360s. Either that, or people are buying games just to stick them on a shelf. Either way, what's it matter? The Wii sells the most hardware, the most software, and costs the least to develop for.


I'll believe it when I see it at E3. It sounds like a dumb decission to me to be quiet until 2 months before the game release. Game announcements fuel stories which bring impressions to gaming website ads and generate websites money. If nintendo doesn't want to contribute to them, they may not be getting a lot of positive press form the gaming community... Comments like mr. Epic games dissing the Wii may become more common then...


You're kinda coming to the party a bit late here on this one. Last year during the summer people complained that we had no idea about the lineup behind metriod...then E3 hit and they unveiled the holiday lineup. Then around October it started again "Well after the holidays the Wii has nothing!" and sure enough like clockwork we started getting info about the releases for the first half of the year. Basically we go through this for every quarter and every quarter someone makes the same argument you just have.

So please do keep paying attention so that when they do announce the lineup you will remember it so you won't be saying the same thing again a few months later. This is the way Nintendo does business. Whether we like it or not, and it seems to be working for them.



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This company does seem to burn a lot of bridges.



Awesome response. Bozon and Matt both roasted Epic Games as well, in the latest IGN Wii podcast, it's great. Calls them "crazy" or something like that.



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FishyJoe said:
This company does seem to burn a lot of bridges.

Didn't someone from Epic Games recently say computer gaming is dying, and home consoles are "where it's at."

 

Pretty bold statements coming from a company that achieved most of its success from computer gamers.

 

There is a vast offended audience of computer gamers out there, just like there are for each console. On Gamespot, we called them Hermits, when I was dumb enough to fiddle around over there. 



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jake_the_fake1 said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
Epic don't need to humiliate the whole Nintendo community by making such childish remarks that generally gamers already know what the Wii is capable of doing. No need for Epic to just bash up the Wii.

Epic dude didn't bash the wii because he felt like it, the IGN interviewer kept pushing him and well he just gave him his honest opinion on the matter, I honestly think this whole thing was blown out of proportion, but such things are typical with fanboy's.


If what you claim is true, and the interviewer pushed him into giving biased opinions when he really didn't want too, then you actually have a point. It's a shame that most of the PS3 and 360 teams are pretty much fanboys of their individual systems and tend to flame the Wii, as well as whatever other HD system they aren't covering.

 

In other words, your claim makes sense, considering the interviewers. I'll give the article a read and take that into consideration and might consider changing my sig, if Capps apologizes, which he very well might, considering Jaffe did, but that still didnt' get him out of hot water in my eyes.



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I love the reaction from wii fanboys to this. Epic is just vocal about it, half the devs in the industry think like them people.

"and the first developer to truly master the system that isn't Nintendo itself will likely find a goldmine of potential. "

That is truly delusional, we all know and history proves it no one ever beats nintendo on their own platform, no one. Never gonna happen all the 3rd party's can do is fight for scraps on the wii.

though the scraps can be quite good.



The bolded part is true and it seems Sega is that developer.



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RedArmia said:

I love the reaction from wii fanboys to this. Epic is just vocal about it, half the devs in the industry think like them people.

"and the first developer to truly master the system that isn't Nintendo itself will likely find a goldmine of potential. "

That is truly delusional, we all know and history proves it no one ever beats nintendo on their own platform, no one. Never gonna happen all the 3rd party's can do is fight for scraps on the wii.

though the scraps can be quite good.


 So that explains why 3rd party revenue has been over 50% of all Wii software revenue for almost a year now?   Do you consider more than 50% of a market scraps?



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RedArmia said:

I love the reaction from wii fanboys to this. Epic is just vocal about it, half the devs in the industry think like them people.

"and the first developer to truly master the system that isn't Nintendo itself will likely find a goldmine of potential. "

That is truly delusional, we all know and history proves it no one ever beats nintendo on their own platform, no one. Never gonna happen all the 3rd party's can do is fight for scraps on the wii.

though the scraps can be quite good.


You're entitled to your opinion, like we're entitled to ours. You call us Wii fanboys, but sincerely act like your not a huge Wii-hater in nearly every post you make on this forum, yourself. At least we're standing up for the company we believe in, instead of trying to tear down one we hate.



I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.

NO NO, NO NO NO.

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That was Cliffy B, lead developer of GeoW. He is a console guy first and lets other port his games to PC, of course he is going to say that.