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Bobbuffalo on 29 March 2009

"Wii HD will be announced in 2009." .......are you serious?



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bdbdbd on 29 March 2009

@Bob: Well, we have seen even crazier predictions on this site. This doesn't mean that it wouldn't be crazy, but let the guy keep his prediction.



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noname2200 on 29 March 2009
BTFeather55 said:

     Well, I've got Play's 2008 Year in Review Issue and in that Heather Campbell says the only Wii game she liked in 2008 was No More Heroes and I think No More Heroes and Wario Shake It! are the only two Wii games Dave Halverson included
in his Top Ten Games of 2008. 

That's great and all, but I'm speaking as someone who's played plenty of 2008 Wii games, and I can tell you that No More Heroes probably wouldn't make my Top 20. It's fine that Play thinks otherwise, but I hold my opinion in higher regard. How about yourself? Which Wii games have you tried, and what did YOU think of them?

 



BTFeather55 on 29 March 2009

It's a prediction. Based on many reports from industry mags that Nintendo will announce a Wii HD console by 2011. Did you see the footage of Smash Brothers running at 720p in the youtube video? Looked like something to shoot for to me.



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elgefe02 on 29 March 2009

Great Rol.... Great!



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Bobbuffalo on 29 March 2009

bdbdb - yeah I guess that's true



BTFeather55 on 29 March 2009
noname2200 said:
BTFeather55 said:

     Well, I've got Play's 2008 Year in Review Issue and in that Heather Campbell says the only Wii game she liked in 2008 was No More Heroes and I think No More Heroes and Wario Shake It! are the only two Wii games Dave Halverson included
in his Top Ten Games of 2008. 

That's great and all, but I'm speaking as someone who's played plenty of 2008 Wii games, and I can tell you that No More Heroes probably wouldn't make my Top 20. It's fine that Play thinks otherwise, but I hold my opinion in higher regard. How about yourself? Which Wii games have you tried, and what did YOU think of them?

 

     I have played Super Monkey Ball and Wii Sports at my nephew's house.  Monkey Ball was alright, I thought it was kind of cool how you felt like you were moving the ball by tilting the control.  And I thought Wii Sports was pretty average for a sports game.  Neither one of them made me want to trade in my 360 or PS3. 

     When I buy my Wii though, I'm going to sell Wii Sports on ebay (you can get a good amount for one on there), and buy No More Heroes / Red Steel Double Pack instead.

 



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nintendo_fanboy on 30 March 2009

This is epic. It was already amazing on the first pages, but now that BTFeather55 has shown up it is just epic. Two of the best joke posters together in one thread, how could it be any better?



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Zlejedi on 30 March 2009
RolStoppable said:
Zlejedi said:
mike_intellivision said:
This is why Rol is unstoppable!

For those who do not understand, people have to defend every time a Wii game does not sell -- but the same is not said for PS3 and Xbox 360 releases.

Mike from Morgantown

Maybe that's becouse Wii fanatics like to wave the flag that it outsells PS3 and X360 combined and whenever third party developer release annual results all those Wii fanatics are always crying they lose money becouse they release on HD systems.

But somehow when a game comparable to what is available on HD consoles comes and all dust settles on the sales it fails to reach any serious numbers unless it is collection of minigames or music game.

If Wii is so amazing 3rd party core game platform then why has CoD 5 WaW sold 3 times less than PS3 version - platform with less than half userbase.

That's easy to explain. The demographics who are interested in FPS games are much more concentrated on the PS3 than on the Wii. This also allowed CoD4 on the PS3 to outsell the bestselling FPS on the PS2 despite an even huger disparity in userbase than PS3 vs. Wii. Now would you doubt that the PS2 was a good platform for third party core games because of this?

Ok so let's ignore COD now let's look at the list - let's remove minigames and casual stuff getting to core games what we see highest is Resident Evil 4 at 1.84M - hardly what one would call amazing third party sales.

The point is Wii can sell tons of minigames, music stuff etc but it cannot sell hardcore game genres better than PS3 or X360 becouse it has much diffrent structure of userbase.

 



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bdbdbd on 30 March 2009

@Zledeji: Wii isn't the only one suffering the same problems. Removing shooters and all the casual stuff like sports games, there isn't many high selling hardcore games on the platforms.

The point is, that PS360 can sell shooters and sports games, but they can't sell hardcore games due to different structure of userbase.



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