Nice posting CrazzyMan; totally devoid of the least hint of logic or reality, but fun to read. Apparently you didn’t read the numbers posted here today. I’m not a fanboy; at 62, I haven’t been any kind of a boy for a long time but I am a keen observer of the human comedy. If any company wants me to be a shill; not unless I get a check. I have lots of Sony and MS products and am equally enthused about them, just not their consoles
I’ll skip over the record month, the record weekly average in the US etc. That’s enough to keep me rushing out to buy stock in Sony or MS. But that’s not even the worst news. Here’s the real killer. During the week of the GTA IV uber-launch the Wii sold over 660,000 world-wide, setting an all time record for ANY system EVER including the PS2. And that’s weeks before Nintendo releases its killer ap, Wii Fit. See a pattern here? If I worked for Sony or the Microsoft Game division I’d probably be thinking about slitting my wrists about now.See what you don’t get is I don’t want a PS3 even if it was free. The graphics are great, Whopee damn deal! I was playing COD at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 (Yep higher than HD) years ago. So if I want pretty graphics I’ll play on the PC or watch a movie on HDTV. I don’t want to drive a car with my fricking thumbs or learn button combinations that make playing a piano look easy. I haven’t got the time or the inclination. With the much maligned WiiMote, I can put in ANY game and be having fun in minutes. Sure I’ll never “win” or get on a leaderboard or even beat the kid next door. Frankly I don’t give a rat’s patutee. In my life I’ve accomplished REAL things. Things I think are more important than “beating” a bunch of pixels. All I want to have is FUN! Quick, simple FUN! Fun like I used to have with games like PacMan or Lunar Rover before the damn controllers became more complex than a clarinet. And guess what! There are a hell of a lot of us baby-boomers and we have money and guess what system and games we buy our grandchildren. Guess what system I buy almost every game for so the kids in the neighborhood can play…..and I can play with them….and my wife may even join in. Don’t call me a casual gamer. I have played video games continuously since the Atari 2600. I’d say I’m a passionate gamer. I just think Microsoft and Sony are so busy catering to an elite group who have the reflexes, the time and need the satisfaction of those overly elaborate, often disgustingly violent games that they leave ALL the rest of us out. I didn’t give up on video games, I think video games gave up on me.
Frankly I’m having a ball, and so is my grandson and all the kids in the neighborhood. ALL of whom got their parents to buy them Wiis, even the hyper-religious couple across the street that wouldn’t buy them any system before they saw the Wii.
Medal of Honor on the Wii doesn’t look nearly as realistic as COD on the PC. OK, I finally realized that if I wanted to see World War II, I could play on the PC or watch Saving Private Ryan. On the other hand, with the Wii Zapper I can have fun with one button in one hand and a nunchuck joystick in the other and remember to shake it to reload. Hey I can handle this. Never really mastered it before. Realistic NO! So is running around picking up magic first aid kits or healing a mortal wound by ducking down a few seconds realistic. Hell no, its no more realistic, it just has better eye candy. I almost fell out of my chair laughing when a reviewer didn’t like playing Tiger Wood with a WiiMote because it didn’t seem “right or natural.” Oh Yea, most people go out and play golf with power meters and analog sticks. NO BODY plays golf by swinging their arms – RIGHT. No only about 95% of the world, the ones that occasionally get off the couch long enough to play golf.
Since Sony and Microsoft want to keep their games “hard core” that’s fine. I recognize that there are gamers who want this experience and they should have it. But if you think that there are enough of you to outnumber us recreational (not casual) gamers that’s because you judge by websites like this where people don’t tend to join unless games are important to them. Not an accurate demographic sample I’m afraid. God must like recreational gamers because he made so many of us (to paraphrase Lincoln).
An Anatomy professor once asked a prim young lady what was the only part of the human body capable of enlarging up to 12 times its normal size in a matter of seconds. She blushed and told him she couldn’t possibly answer that question in public. He just smiled and said, “I was referring to the pupil of the eye and you, young lady, are in for one hell of a disappointment.” I’m afraid that everyone sitting around waiting for the Wii bubble to pop, the fad to fade, and the PS3 to majestically sail on by to take its rightful throne are in for an equal disappointment.
Sorry this is so long but I’d just had it up to here with this silliness.
