“Due to the success of the Wii and DS, Nintendo needs to go third party. This would give Nintendo access to all the competing hardware and give Nintendo access to the iPhone. Nintendo’s direction of noncompetition shows that it is fleeing and should exit the hardware business immediately so it can get up to speed on being a third party company.”

    The Wii almost certainly sells based on the motion controls and reputation as a good casual console which has taken hold with women and families.  Noone is looking at the PS3 and saying "man I wish it had worse graphics, then I'd be all over that!"

   The Wii isn't selling because of poor graphics, but in spite of poor graphics.  If anything a Wii with better graphics would sell better, certainly not worse. 

   The Wiimote and accessability is just more of a plus then last gen graphics are a minus.  That does not mean that the Wii wouldn't be better off with two plusses (both good graphics AND a new controller thats casual friendly)

PS360 games would be better on a system with new controllers. If MS and Sony actually made a system with upgraded graphics AND upgraded controllers, they'd get Wii ports that aren't dumbed down like the 360 version of Rayman Raving Rabbids. The game was made specifically for motion controls, ported to a system without them, and not surprisingly, it flopped.

And it's the same in the handheld world. Have you seen the Brain Age clones on PSP? Brain Age was designed specifically for a touchscreen and a microphone, so these games are really big turds without them.


Like I've said before, your precious HD systems can't even handle Wii Play. Let that sink in for a minute. All the graphics and computing power in the world can't even give you Duck Hunt, the world's best selling shooter.

I'll think about it

Zelda- definitely!
Mario Galaxy- if the game was retooled it could have been much better on PS3
Mario Kart Wii- Would have been better on 360, no motion control please
Brawl- best on wii. GCN controller is practically designed for Smash Bros.


One game that would ahve been vastly better on PS360 is NGHTS: Journey of Dreams. 360 and PS3 have smooth control stick, while GCN and Wii both have sharp edges that make moving ina circular pattern over and over impossible.

Ok let's take each game I mentioned individually then:

Brawl: No motion control. Would be better in almost every way on an HD console.

Animal Crossing : No motion control. Would be better in almost every way on an HD console.

Mario Kart: I can understand some people may prefer the steering wheel peripheral to the nunchuk even if I don't. However, proper steering wheel peripherals have been around for years. They have pedals and everything!

Mario Galaxy: Basic use of motion control that doesn't add anything to the game. I've never met anyone that thinks the IR functionality in the game is a strong point, so take it or leave it.

Zelda: The bow is used very rarely. Loving the hastily tacked on after-thought sword motion would make me question your judgement. Either way, the possibilities of Zelda on an HD console could be huge. Look at the jump from SNES to the N64 Zeldas.

gameplay > graphics.

all the best games have pretty tight graphics.

i enjoy using the motion control is galaxy, TP, MP3, etc.

sure, visuals are nice. but aslong as the game is great, i can give a rats ass how amazing the graphics are.

thats why i dislike some HD games- people call them amazing for graphics alone, and the gameplay is normal to lackluster.

   The Wii is now the 2nd most expensive console by a pretty decent margin and still sells. It WAS selling for 350 or so functionally for the first 2 years anyway since in almost all cases you had to pay some sort of ebay markup to own one or buy an expensive package deal at retail with extra stuff you don't want and a 350 or higher price tag. 

   There would be a tradeoff in price, but not as much as you would think really.  I mean I'm not saying the Wii should have been a do everything 800 dollar to make PS3 box.  I'm saying more like the 360 is.  It's functional but certainly not breakign the bank to make.  They could have made a Wii with a processor similar to the 360s for a 300 dollar entry point and still made money per console rather quickly.  Remember the Wii came out over a year after the 360, so they wouldn't have to eat the high start costs to make a console similar to the 360 a year later (by which time component costs have halved).

sigh... graphics this graphics that... I would be happy if the graphic level would stay still on PS2/GC level for the next 20 years or so, that way we can expect games to last more then ten hours and have great gameplay, beacuse right now all this obsession with HD graphics have made the story/gameplay/lagg/glitches so much worse.

I didn't say it was selling because of poor graphics. But now that you mention it.. it is selling because of poor graphics.. because that makes the console cheaper. Nintendo was moving forward based on GameCube sales, do you not understand this? They assumed they were going to be in the same position and were attempting to minimize losses.

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