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BladeOfGod on 15 March 2009
saicho said:
BladeOfGod said:
scottie said:
BladeOfGod said:
Wii sold 48 million ( 47.98 million but lets make it simple) and PS2 sold about 149 million. but i don't think Wii is gonna outsell PS2. PS2 never stopped selling good till 2007, but Wii is already slowing down, because it doesn't have any good software to boost it besides Madworld.

And even if wii manage to sell another 50 million in 3 years it would be 100 million and than wii sales will starting to slow down very fast, and wii would probably sell 140 million in the end of its life cycle.


But than again, this is just my predicting, it can go much worse or much better for wii

 

Jan 1st - 15th March 2006 - 0 sales

Dec 31 - Mar 10 2007 - 2.27 million

Dec 30 - Mar 8 2008 3.04 million

Dec 28 - Mar 7 2009 4.28 million

 

Look at that, huge slowdown. It's almost negative sales by this point

 

I was talking about Japan. Death and rise of every console always starts in Japan.

360 more than doubled its sales in Japan so far this year comparing to the same period last year and all the other consoles are down. I guess it's time for the rise of 360!

 


It might be! You never know

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peanut1972 on 15 March 2009

I see a lot of variety in games on the Wii. Maybe you are not looking hard enough.



bazmeistergen on 16 March 2009
WereKitten said:
Millennium said:
This is what's called moving forward. Just as games abandoned the D-pad for analog, it's time to abandon buttons for motion.

Because motion is always better. That's why i'm typing this by performing a different waggle for each letter and punctuation sign. Uhm, no, wait, I'm using buttons...

Face it: having _the option_ to use motion gestures is a plus. Using them always and everywhere is a mistake. SMG is a great game, one of my favourites. But the spin attack being a waggle instead of a button press has no justification.

Sometimes when you want tight controls the button press is exactly what you need, and exactly what you should use. That's why people play SSBB and even MK:Wii with "outdated" control schemes.

 

 

 

I loved the waggle on galaxy, it felt really nice!

Many players appear to use motion on Kart.



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WereKitten on 16 March 2009

@bazmeistergen
Both things don't make motion controls better than "traditional" stick and button controls.
Had SMG come out on a console with traditional controls, say the GC, would you have played it with the nagging feeling "I love this game, but I just wish there was a gizmo to shake instead of a button press for the spin attack"? I doubt it.
On the other hand I bet anybody who played an on-rail shooter wished for a light-gun like controller, and that's where the wiimote IR pointing feature shines.



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a3hmax on 16 March 2009

Very pathetic argument, Wii sales are better now than 2007 or 2008, in the other side there are Sony, who don´t make the sales miracle with Killzone 2, and Microsoft, the 360 now is cheap and much people brought it, making better sales than past year.

And most of the PCS360 main games are shooters, and nobody is against that.



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bazmeistergen on 17 March 2009
WereKitten said:
@bazmeistergen
Both things don't make motion controls better than "traditional" stick and button controls.
Had SMG come out on a console with traditional controls, say the GC, would you have played it with the nagging feeling "I love this game, but I just wish there was a gizmo to shake instead of a button press for the spin attack"? I doubt it.
On the other hand I bet anybody who played an on-rail shooter wished for a light-gun like controller, and that's where the wiimote IR pointing feature shines.

 

 

I would not have thought that. You are right. However, I still love the motion in the game. It feels right. I think the motion controls have worked well in Godfather, Bully, Wii Sports, SSX Blur amongst others. The motion controls have added a little something to all of them I believe.

Motion controls are better for certain things.



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