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New nintendo console name. How fucking shit is it? 
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I said new, meaning the console previously codenamed revolution.
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wii = wee = piss = shit = !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Xbox and PS3 are just repackaged PC's. If I wanted PC style gaming I'd buy a fucking PC.
Nintendo consoles actually offer something different and innovative.
Nintendo consoles actually offer something different and innovative.
*constitutepolitik said:
I believe your seemingly apathetic view based on what is solely a fan-boy-biased perspective largely contributes to the very market-scape that Nintendo are trying to rectify.
The name itself conjures up quite a unique backlash, but it has already done its job, that is to propagate the console into headlines.
As I said, extreme fanboyism...albeit a PC > Console one.politik said:
He was referring to the way they push the graphical and 'technical' limits rather than the actual structural makeup. The constant need for self-reaffirmation through some visual experience vs the actual enjoyment of games and the need for originality and the banality of the current consoles, particularly noted through the abundance of sequels which appear on both the Xbox and the PS2 currently, and their pre-decessors to come.
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HahahaForbes.com said:
http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/28/nintendo-wii-console-cx_po_0428autofacescan08.html
Edit: it wouldnt be such a problem if it was pronounced "Y" as in "y-generation" or even spelled "zii" to represent the next generation and still have the "double-i" thing. But "wee" is a dodgy pronunciation.
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The fact the console's name is getting this much attention, without so much of a marketing strategy or budget even put into place is a genius stroke for Nintendo. Apart from a few shots, and sneak peeks, they have cooked up so much media attention for it, by merely calling it Wii.
Kudos.
Kudos.
Serius
Beyond Godlike
The argument of which console is better and the old PC > Console argument has been done over and over again.
However i will still throw in my say, personally i prefer a PC as my gaming platform. All technical aspects aside, certain issues such as the vast moding community and innovative game releases[instead of having to work with basically the one pc with the same specs every year aka Xbox] mean that there is alot more flexability with Pc gaming.
Consoles were never the best choice imo, they seemed to be mostly marketed at kiddies who are too dumb to use a computer and need an upgraded version of a sega to enjoy games.
Now whats the biggest mod out there? Why CS ofcourse but if console gaming was the bigger than pc gaming it probably would never have gotten off the ground.
Not to mention the prices, i dont want to pay $99 for some generic rehashed game. GTA3 was good, i bought it . Vice city was also good, but if it was a pc game it would have been released either as a total conversion mod[seen as not much changed and the graphics were the same] or an expansion pack. Fuck san andreas, if u want to play the same game 3 different times i9 suggest you start with the sims.
Consoles are an outdated way of thinking, but hopefully they have brought something to the table[although i cant think what].
iam not excited abotu wii at all and i will never buy it, but all the power to nintendo, i would like to see them knock down the giants sony and xbox for once.
However i will still throw in my say, personally i prefer a PC as my gaming platform. All technical aspects aside, certain issues such as the vast moding community and innovative game releases[instead of having to work with basically the one pc with the same specs every year aka Xbox] mean that there is alot more flexability with Pc gaming.
Consoles were never the best choice imo, they seemed to be mostly marketed at kiddies who are too dumb to use a computer and need an upgraded version of a sega to enjoy games.
Now whats the biggest mod out there? Why CS ofcourse but if console gaming was the bigger than pc gaming it probably would never have gotten off the ground.
Not to mention the prices, i dont want to pay $99 for some generic rehashed game. GTA3 was good, i bought it . Vice city was also good, but if it was a pc game it would have been released either as a total conversion mod[seen as not much changed and the graphics were the same] or an expansion pack. Fuck san andreas, if u want to play the same game 3 different times i9 suggest you start with the sims.
Consoles are an outdated way of thinking, but hopefully they have brought something to the table[although i cant think what].
iam not excited abotu wii at all and i will never buy it, but all the power to nintendo, i would like to see them knock down the giants sony and xbox for once.
For once? You forget Nintendo have been at this far longer than anyone else. Their sales for the GBA and DS beat most of the XBOX and PS2 sales, heck almost doubled or at times quadrupled it.
GTA was originally brought out on PC, GTA II, PC, GTA III, PC, GTA VC was the exception and was released for PS2 first. But then ported to PC eventually (we all knew it was coming just a matter of marketing).
The ability to measure 'online' presence vs those who play offline is a very loose argument, since the figures simply don't show how effective this disparity is.
As for the argument of 'better' gaming, I think this is exactly the reason Nintendo are getting spot on. For much of its life, console gaming WAS a niche market. Until the Playstation, and to a lesser extent the Dreamcast, there wasn't an established market outside of the 'kiddie' demography. What changed was that the PSX now allowed for graphics to emulate close to what was being displayed on computers at the time. The addition of CD play-usage meant that it was becoming more mainstream. This brought in an influx of those 'mature' gamers, but also ingrained a sort of dichotomy against the Nintendo as 'kiddie' because they did not aim for cutting-edge graphics or over-complicated controller setups.
The XBOX was Microsoft's need to have a slice of the pie, so to speak. What this brought about was that we now had a Console Cold War, whereby the two companies now aimed their market based on more 'realism' more 'mature' aspects. But this also led to the detioration of originality and was more of a quantity vs quality aspect.
Meanwhile the Nintendo, proceeded with the Gamecube, designed to be a simpler interface, to draw in a new crowd, a new market which was previously untapped. Whilst the video game console wars was becoming 'bigger' it was still mainly entrenched in the masculine frame of mind. The shift from PC male gamers to one which is looking more and more evenly spread between the sexes everyday, the need to accomodate was becoming stronger and stronger.
The problem they saw, was that people didn't enjoy having to (re)learn controller setups with each subsequent game. It turned anyone off, having to slave for a few hours to get into the swing of things. The advent of the DS vs the PSP was perhaps the biggest litmus test for the Nintendo psyche, and speaking purely from sales, it was a huge hit. People enjoyed the intuitive nature of the DS, it was a simple, effective, and original way of gaming. There were doubters, quite a few, who thought the touch-screen would crash and burn.
The PSP served as a reduced PSONE, but became less of a gaming tool but a video iPOD replacement.
Now with the Wii and the interactive controller, I will be immensely excited to see exactly how the controller will work, and from the promising signs arising with each new publisher, I'm definitely going to be excited.
I was already hooked by the fact that there would be a back-catalogue to download old games from, but the controller and the ideology seem to be there.
GTA was originally brought out on PC, GTA II, PC, GTA III, PC, GTA VC was the exception and was released for PS2 first. But then ported to PC eventually (we all knew it was coming just a matter of marketing).
The ability to measure 'online' presence vs those who play offline is a very loose argument, since the figures simply don't show how effective this disparity is.
As for the argument of 'better' gaming, I think this is exactly the reason Nintendo are getting spot on. For much of its life, console gaming WAS a niche market. Until the Playstation, and to a lesser extent the Dreamcast, there wasn't an established market outside of the 'kiddie' demography. What changed was that the PSX now allowed for graphics to emulate close to what was being displayed on computers at the time. The addition of CD play-usage meant that it was becoming more mainstream. This brought in an influx of those 'mature' gamers, but also ingrained a sort of dichotomy against the Nintendo as 'kiddie' because they did not aim for cutting-edge graphics or over-complicated controller setups.
The XBOX was Microsoft's need to have a slice of the pie, so to speak. What this brought about was that we now had a Console Cold War, whereby the two companies now aimed their market based on more 'realism' more 'mature' aspects. But this also led to the detioration of originality and was more of a quantity vs quality aspect.
Meanwhile the Nintendo, proceeded with the Gamecube, designed to be a simpler interface, to draw in a new crowd, a new market which was previously untapped. Whilst the video game console wars was becoming 'bigger' it was still mainly entrenched in the masculine frame of mind. The shift from PC male gamers to one which is looking more and more evenly spread between the sexes everyday, the need to accomodate was becoming stronger and stronger.
The problem they saw, was that people didn't enjoy having to (re)learn controller setups with each subsequent game. It turned anyone off, having to slave for a few hours to get into the swing of things. The advent of the DS vs the PSP was perhaps the biggest litmus test for the Nintendo psyche, and speaking purely from sales, it was a huge hit. People enjoyed the intuitive nature of the DS, it was a simple, effective, and original way of gaming. There were doubters, quite a few, who thought the touch-screen would crash and burn.
The PSP served as a reduced PSONE, but became less of a gaming tool but a video iPOD replacement.
Now with the Wii and the interactive controller, I will be immensely excited to see exactly how the controller will work, and from the promising signs arising with each new publisher, I'm definitely going to be excited.
I was already hooked by the fact that there would be a back-catalogue to download old games from, but the controller and the ideology seem to be there.
Again a sign of your inability to follow arguments...politik said:
Notice how I have "like a tamagotchi" thereby NOT directly referring to the said object with the tamagotchi but rather alluding to it through a comparison.AsyLum said:
It was in reference to your "the one where you follow an organism throughout its entire life - from conception to death? That was certainly a first..." part of the quote.
Please keep up.