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Festus on 02 February 2010

On TWiT 233: Apple ][ forever, when Wii haters Tom Merritt, Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton start dumping on the Wii; John C. Dvorak steps up and tells them that when it comes to the Wii they are just plain wrong.  This occurs between minute 21:00 and 24:00 during their Apple iPad discussion.  What Dvorak has to say will probably not make the Wii hardcore fans happy, but in all is a nice concise defence of the Wii's success.

Have a listen and let me know what you think of the statements made regarding the Wii in this netcast.  I thought this might be of interest, as one does not hear a tech commentator coming to the defence of the Wii very often.

This is my first thread and I do not know how to link sites yet, but if you go to //twit.tv/ you will find this TWiT episode.



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Kenryoku_Maxis on 02 February 2010

I don't know who any of these people are...



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Xen on 02 February 2010
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
I don't know who any of these people are...

Laporte and Norton are from The Screen Savers, an old TechTV show.

Dvorak is the guy responsible for the Dvorak keyboard, I think.



O-D-C on 02 February 2010

Radek Dvorak is a NHL player there



mike_intellivision on 02 February 2010

Dvorak is a long-time computer magazine columnist. He is not the person responsible for the keyboard (that would be August Dvorak in 1936).


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famousringo on 02 February 2010

The Wii came up in a completely uninspiring discussion about the iPad. Both devices were derided as devices which sold on the sizzle rather than the steak, but Dvorak asserted that the Wii had something going for it (some 'steak,' I guess) because of the new interface and because of it's appeal to children.

Pretty boring show. I wouldn't have bothered to listen to it if I weren't home sick today. The discussion on the MacMillan/Amazon spat was the most interesting part. Listening to uber-nerds predict that the iPad will fail just like the Wii shoud have failed gives me more confidence in the iPad, actually.



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megaman79 on 02 February 2010

How about a proper link?



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LordTheNightKnight on 02 February 2010

Nothing "should have" failed unless it hurts people but is a success anyway. Like violent hate movements (like a certain one Godwin will not allow me to mention further).

No one is hurt by the Wii's success except the egos of the gaming press, developers, and anti-Nintendo people in the gaming community.



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Imphamis on 02 February 2010

First glance, I thought it said "John Cena".



 

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d21lewis on 02 February 2010

Who the hell is John C. Dovrak? I should make a thread titled: Timothy Lewis states No New Wii in 2010.

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