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can we please stop comparing wii games to ps2, it's not really fair.



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11/20/09 04:25 makingmusic476 Warning Other (Your avatar is borderline NSFW. Please keep it for as long as possible.)
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Have you played No More Heroes? It's full of nerdy humour, especially video game humour. It absolutely reeks of 'cult', in fact it revels in it. I didn't actually complete No More Heroes, but I was present as my housemate completed it and I watched all of the boss-fights. The only people I could recommend it to are my fellow nerds.



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Haha, a lot of idiot 360/PS3 (mainly the latter) posing their opinion as fact lmao.



                           

Omega_Phazon_Pirate. said:
Haha, a lot of idiot 360/PS3 (mainly the latter) posing their opinion as fact lmao.

Is that a fact or an opinion?

 



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

Well facts are that none of the big budget projects (mainly from Ninty) have failed on the Wii and thats a fact. And this will continue

The good games on the Wii also tend to sell (but its also hard to define what a good game is) but apart from few, games considered good like NMH, Call of Duty, De blob, boom blox do make nice profit for their devs, because of development cost on the wii

Small studios with limited amount of staff ex. Suda, are able to make money with 400k copies sold.

I dont think anyone can argue that good games do not sell on the Wii, the problem lies that there are not enough big budget titles put on that platform, therefore everyone expect a decent (but small budget game ) to hit a million.



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Soriku said:
This has been said for the last few years and is supposedly the reason why there are no quality games on the Wii (which is total BS). But is there any basis for this statement at all? We're always hearing this...but there's no examples. How many games on the Wii that are actually big and not niche (these niche games wouldn't have done any much better on the HD consoles either. But even then plenty have made profit - NMH, Okami, and so on) have flopped on the Wii? Oh, and they have to be advertised as well. You can't expect a game to sell if no one knows about it. To me this statement is an anti-Wii defense mechanism so people don't believe the Wii can actually get quality third party games and not a real fact.

Buying my Wii was almost as big of a mistake as buying a my PSP. All i can say is there better be some good games for the Wii this year or i'm gonna be pissed.

 




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Demotruk said:
Have you played No More Heroes? It's full of nerdy humour, especially video game humour. It absolutely reeks of 'cult', in fact it revels in it. I didn't actually complete No More Heroes, but I was present as my housemate completed it and I watched all of the boss-fights. The only people I could recommend it to are my fellow nerds.

 

      Have you ever watched a Tarantino movie?  Even though they're mainly crime and action movies they are full of nerdy humour especially film geek humor.  And they absolutely reek of 'cult'.  Tarantino revels in being a 'cult' movie director.  The only people I would recommend them to are fans of cult films like myself.  Yet that hardly ever stops them from being the number one films at the box office in their first week(s) of release. 



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Omega_Phazon_Pirate. said:
Haha, a lot of idiot 360/PS3 (mainly the latter) posing their opinion as fact lmao.

 

I really hate people like you.

 



 

 

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Simulacrum said:
Omega_Phazon_Pirate. said:
Haha, a lot of idiot 360/PS3 (mainly the latter) posing their opinion as fact lmao.

 

I really hate people like you.

 

 

 Agreed. Stealing Phazon is just no not funny.



http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS

The craziest thing about this statement is that, if the Wii doesn't sell quality games, yet its selling the most software this gen, what happens when the quality hits arrive? Or do people believe that day won't come?

Nintendo's 1st party games are a strength their competitors wish they had. The games games that have executed well have sold well. TBH I don't think the Wii has received the big budget title yet that can prove the OP right or wrong. But It does sell software, there's no denying that.

The other side of the coin is, why haven't the HD consoles received those "niche" games? I mean besides the fps and tps, what else we got? I think people forget about the DS/PSP situation, it is damn near identical. The same exact words, phrases and ideologies were used then too.

I may sound like a broken record, but I don't give a damn..And besides, many of you in here sound like one too;) Fad, no games, weak specs, last gen, it feels like a groundhog day.



Bet between Slimbeast and Arius Dion about Wii sales 2009:


If the Wii sells less than 20 million in 2009 (as defined by VGC sales between week ending 3d Jan 2009 to week ending 4th Jan 2010) Slimebeast wins and get to control Arius Dion's sig for 1 month.

If the Wii sells more than 20 million in 2009 (as defined above) Arius Dion wins and gets to control Slimebeast's sig for 1 month.