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My most anticipated games:  Whatever Hideo Kojima is going to do next, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Gran Turismo 5, Alan Wake, Wii Sports Resort.  Cave Story Wiiware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqqLMgbtrB8

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Well maybe because it's not all about the graphics? Fun is also important i think...or maybe im wrong?



Paul_Warren said:

"What's your point, neither of those games have been able to put a dent in the wii's sales. If the best two games of this generation can't change anything, why do you think any others will?"

MGS 4 put the PS3 ahead of the Wii worldwide for one week. If GTA IV had been a console exclusive it could have done even more so. When a time comes that the 360 and PS3 have a steady flow of MGS 4 and GTA IV quality games all coming at the same time, then that will have an affect upon worldwide sales especially if the only things Nintendo has to combat it is pablum like Animal Crossing and Wii Music. Most videogame console sales are generated when someone goes over to a friend's house or a store, etc, and they see something that totally blows them away. The PS3 and 360 have much greater potential to be able to deliver these games than does the Wii.  If you had GTA IV coming out exclusively for the PS3 or 360 in April followed by MGS 4 in early June then Final Fantasy XIII in August (As in The PS2's holiday 01 season when you had GTA III, MGS 4, Devil May Cry, Final Fantasy X, and Jak and Daxter all AAA titles hitting within a few weeks of each other), that would have a much greater effect than MGS 4 coming out in June followed by waiting for Little Big Planet to come out in October.

The next AAA titles for the Wii aren't scheduled to be released until the Spring of '09 which could give several of the big HD titles momentum during the holiday season.

So PS3 would only need 52 Metal Gear Solid 4s a year to win this console war.

This plan cannot fail.



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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"So PS3 would only need 52 Metal Gear Solid 4s a year to win this console war.

This plan cannot fail."

The PS2 had 64.



My most anticipated games:  Whatever Hideo Kojima is going to do next, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Gran Turismo 5, Alan Wake, Wii Sports Resort.  Cave Story Wiiware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqqLMgbtrB8

Lolcislaw said:
Well maybe because it's not all about the graphics?

 

Silly Lolcislaw! Graphics are everything. Gameplay is just there to keep the drones interested in them.



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Revised to include a comment about the gameplay.


I played it for a few minutes at Best Buy. It didn't look much better than a Gamecube game. Also, I had Turbo with the steering wheel and gas pedal for my Colecovision when I was growing up and putting the wii mote in the little plastic steering wheel in MKwii seems very hokey by comparison.



My most anticipated games:  Whatever Hideo Kojima is going to do next, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Gran Turismo 5, Alan Wake, Wii Sports Resort.  Cave Story Wiiware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqqLMgbtrB8

@ woopah,

Sorry, I should have made it clear that I wasn't directing my rant at you, I understood exactly what you meant. It was some of the responses that I was directing my tirade at. I'd just been over at Gamespot and their blatant bias had me in a foul mood. I even asked them to cancel the so called "Wii and DS" newsletter which despite its name is getting just as bad.

I also get cranky when I have to listen to how wonderful a game GTA is. I'm sorry; I'll never accept that the best game of the year is nothing but gratuitous violence, a storyline that would get you fired off a soap opera and the most sophomoric so called humor I've had to listen to sober in my life. I'll happily admit that there are fine games on both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 and for those that put a high premium on graphics, I'm sure they're the best but GTA was not the best of them by any stretch of the imagination, in my opinion. See, unlike game critics I am willing to accept my fallibility.

I'm not sure why this industry cannot seem to generate critics that can judge fairly even things that they may not personally like and accept that others may have different tastes and criteria. I spent years judging photography competitions for the state fair. It often required me to judge pictures that I personally wouldn't hang in my trash can. For example, to me the cutest little doggie picture ever made is still just a damn picture of a mutt. But there are people who love and put a lot of effort into such images and they are entitled to the same consideration and to be judged in terms of their appeal to their target audience as anything else. Most game critics are so egocentric and convinced that their preferred gaming style has to be best that it would be as if I had only awarded pictures to the nudes and ignored everything else.



WOW! where the hell is is all this hate coming from? as soon as i read the title i said......oh no, hear comes the wii fanboys. if you would STOP thinking like that for a sec you would see what the OP is talking about.........the OP is thinking just im thinking about the sales charts this holliday. the wii will have games in the top ten or 20 yes or course, he didn't say it wont he said the MAJORITY! will be PS3 and 360 games. if you look at both of there line up's it's an obvious fact that a bunch of ps3 and 360 games is going to rule the charts this year.



saprano1 said:

WOW! where the hell is is all this hate coming from? as soon as i read the title i said......oh no, hear comes the wii fanboys. if you would STOP thinking like that for a sec you would see what the OP is talking about.........the OP is thinking just im thinking about the sales charts this holliday. the wii will have games in the top ten or 20 yes or course, he didn't say it wont he said the MAJORITY! will be PS3 and 360 games. if you look at both of there line up's it's an obvious fact that a bunch of ps3 and 360 games is going to rule the charts this year.

 

Didn't people say this about GTAIV?



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Paul_Warren said:
"So PS3 would only need 52 Metal Gear Solid 4s a year to win this console war.

This plan cannot fail."

The PS2 had 64.

 

64 Metal Gear Solid 4s would only cost 3.2 billion dollars to make.

Get on it Sony!



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.