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Aidman on 25 January 2010

1. Mr. Shigeru MIYAMOTO BRAIN
2. Mr. Satoru IWATA BRAIN
3. and Dr KAWASHIMA BRAIN

the TRINITY BRAIN lol.



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The Ghost of RubangB on 25 January 2010
Mummelmann said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
1) Wii Sports.
2) The best and most family games.
3) The best and most party games.
4) The best and most casual games.
5) The best and most exercise games.
6) The best and most zombie games.
7) The best and most motion controlled games.
8) The best and most IR-pointer controlled games.
9) The best and most retro games.
10) The best and most advertising.

If you've owned a PC for more than three days you should be ashamed of yourself for saying that...

If you've lived through the 1980's for more than three days you should be ashamed of YOUR self sir!

When most people think of "retro gaming," they think of NES/SNES/N64/MasterSystem/Genesis/TurboGrafx-16/NeoGeo/Commodore64/MSX/Arcade games, not PC games.  Most people don't know about emulation and piracy, so those don't count.



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Mummelmann on 25 January 2010

Of course they count, the PC reigns supreme on retro games. Silly man!



ocean-1984 on 25 January 2010

New young generations of gamers need console to start with.
Its best choice for parents, people dont wont kids to be sitting and getting exaited about head shots in fps, they wont them to have fun. Add movments, wii fit, mario and u get perfect choice to start with.
Other then that are female gamers, my girlfriend loves wii, she dosnt care about HD, she gets from wii what what she remember as fun when she was playing snes.
Ps3 and 360 are mostly for older gamers, u wouldnt buy it for 10y old.



Avinash_Tyagi on 25 January 2010

Disruption
Blue Ocean
HD consoles overshooting the market
values
Processes
The Downmarket
good enough graphics
rising development costs for core games
removal of barriers to gaming
Games which appeal to the values of the downmarket



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

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V-r0cK on 25 January 2010

Appeal to wider range of consumers than just the gamers.



Cheebee on 25 January 2010

1. DS
2. Wii Remote
3. Wii Sports
4. Pricetag
5. Wii Play
6. Wii Fit + Balance Board
7. Mario Kart Wii
8. Motion Plus
9. Wii Sports Resort
10. Mario



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LordTheNightKnight on 25 January 2010
Mummelmann said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
1) Wii Sports.
2) The best and most family games.
3) The best and most party games.
4) The best and most casual games.
5) The best and most exercise games.
6) The best and most zombie games.
7) The best and most motion controlled games.
8) The best and most IR-pointer controlled games.
9) The best and most retro games.
10) The best and most advertising.

If you've owned a PC for more than three days you should be ashamed of yourself for saying that...

If you mean emulators, that doesn't count. Because otherwise the PSP, Xbox, 360, PS2 (with HDD), PS3 (if that's done yet), DS (with R4), and Wii count.



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RoaR on 25 January 2010

1. Sony
2. Microsoft

Everything else is secondary.



Mummelmann on 25 January 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:
Mummelmann said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
1) Wii Sports.
2) The best and most family games.
3) The best and most party games.
4) The best and most casual games.
5) The best and most exercise games.
6) The best and most zombie games.
7) The best and most motion controlled games.
8) The best and most IR-pointer controlled games.
9) The best and most retro games.
10) The best and most advertising.

If you've owned a PC for more than three days you should be ashamed of yourself for saying that...

If you mean emulators, that doesn't count. Because otherwise the PSP, Xbox, 360, PS2 (with HDD), PS3 (if that's done yet), DS (with R4), and Wii count.

Of course they do, which is my point. No matter how many retro games you launch/re-release on the consoles they'll never hold a candle to the PC in this regard. To say otherwise is very strange to me.

Why do people always disregard the PC as a gaming platform in every thread in here? To me, it is still a vastly superior gaming platform and has been since the late 80's (I'm not trying to coerce you into thinking the same but the utter disregard for any and all things PC in here to make other platforms stand out and shine is ludicrous imo).