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Reggie: We never said the Wii storage solution is a hard drive

In the latest issue of Club Nintendo - a Spanish Nintendo magazine - Reggie Fils-Aime and Shigeru Miyamoto shed light on some interesting questions. First, and perhaps most importantly, Fils-Aime reaffirmed Nintendo's commitment to investigating a storage solution. However, Fils-Aime confirmed that it isn't necessarily a hard drive.
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Published: 476 days 13 hours ago | News | Wii | Nintendo DS | Gaming | Industry News
 
 

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kspraydad - 476 days 14 hours ago
1 - The Wii
will be first console with BD-RW?
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kesvalk - 476 days 13 hours ago
1.1 -
sorry for my lack of information, but what is a BD-RW?

EDIT: already searched in the net...
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sack_boi - 476 days 9 hours ago
1.2 -
it's probably the Holographic data storage I read about some months earlier.... Next-gen Wii is going to own; just imagine what Nintend cn do no, wi pkets as big as theirs!

I heard that microsoft will be using the Larrabe processor on their next-gen system...

I can't wait for E3 2010-2011
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sidar - 476 days 3 hours ago
1.3 -
Sackboy,
To write Holographic data you need a big ass machine.
The tech still needs to be improved.
It's unlikely that we will see it this generation.
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Leathersoup - 475 days 17 hours ago
1.5 -
Nintendo will be selling whiteboards for gamers to write level
passwords on.
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kspraydad - 475 days 17 hours ago
1.6 - Wow...
8 Disagree's for a sarcastic remark (meant to be humorous) that didn't make fun of any console...guess people are right when the say the subtleties sarcasm rarely work on the internets.
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Raoh - 476 days 13 hours ago
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actually nintendo may trump sony and microsoft and start streaming games. almost like flash games in web browsers.
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unsunghero28 - 476 days 13 hours ago
2.1 - Yep.
I concur that it's highly probable Nintendo will begin offering a cloud computing solution.

Not only is such an approach economically and technologically feasible, but it prevents Nintendo from scaring away casual customers.
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zo6_lover27 - 476 days 13 hours ago
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But that requires an internet connection, and a pretty dang fast one too. And also, it has to be wireless, which is even more of a problem.
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kesvalk - 476 days 13 hours ago
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i don't think this is a sollution for the storage problem, after all, we can redownload the game from shop channel, from my point of view, unless i am really wrong, it's the same thing, you will still need to have a net connection to do it, and it would need to be fast...

isn't it simple to break the limit of the SD card and make it possible that the Wii acess the information directly from it?
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zo6_lover27 - 476 days 12 hours ago
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Kesvalk, that is the PERFECT solution.
The wii can recognize up to 2GB cards and that's already 4 times as much than the built in memory, and games only take up a VERY small amount memory
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Jerkapotamus - 476 days 12 hours ago
2.5 - @kesvalk
Yes, unlocking the SD card is the most probable solution in my opinion.
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TruthbeTold - 476 days 12 hours ago
2.6 - Opening up the SD card would lead to more pirating.
If they do come up with a system where you download a much smaller file for a game, then connect online to play it from their servers then I think that all would be good. If you are downloading games onto your Wii, then you have Wireless internet, or access to it. It would be Win/Win.
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kesvalk - 476 days 11 hours ago
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not exactly, the Wiiware and VC games are tied to the Wii they are downloaded on, it can't be shared cuz the codification don't match,and the game can't be played on another console.

so you can't download a game on the SD and play it on your Wii, cuz it will have the code of another Wii.
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philatopus - 475 days 22 hours ago
2.8 - @ kesvalk
actually it is possible to download vc/wiiware games, using the wad installer on the homebrew channel.
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Farsendor1 - 476 days 13 hours ago
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bd-rw is Blu-Ray Disc-ReWritable anyways no i don't see nintendo using blu ray
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TruthbeTold - 476 days 13 hours ago
4 - As usual...
...a bunch of non-information.

Oh! You're working on a storage solution just like you said months ago?

Oh! It's not necessarily a Hard Drive?

Oh! You think that Animal Crossing is what I want from you as pretty much your only offering through the end of the year?

Oh! There's a Zelda game being worked on, but you can't tell us anything, just like a few moths ago when you couldn't tell us anything?

Surprise, surprise.
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GFahim - 476 days 13 hours ago
4.1 - not only that
but they also announce the release date of disaster day of crisis from nowhere!
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TruthbeTold - 476 days 12 hours ago
4.2 - For Europe anyway...
But that I'm glad about. I feared that that game was dead. Even so, the recent screens of it looked very PS2ish. The gameplay better be off the hook.
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Baka-akaB - 476 days 12 hours ago
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Then again regis you didnt say anything yet of value ...

Investigating ? Come on its not like they're IBM and will create a storage out of the blue ...

How long does it takes to decide weither or not you use flash drives , other kind of hdds , or yet more expensive cards ...
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KingDizzi - 476 days 12 hours ago
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He does not have to, put a turn on a disc with mario in it and you have 10 million sales guaranteed. Hell there DS good game sold 15 million, Nintendo are just too good at what they do.

If Sony or MS were able to go back in time, no prizes for guessing if they would have made the Wii in stead of the PS3 or 360 respectively....
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mfwahwah - 475 days 22 hours ago
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I don't understand why Nintendo want to drag this on and on. Honestly, get a HDD. Pop it into a Wii style case. Sell it. It's the fast, simple, reliable, cheap solution that everyone would go wild for, yet Nintendo just HAS to be innovative. Maybe they should focus on innovation for their next console, and focus on serving their customers with this console.
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KingDizzi - 476 days 12 hours ago
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Ah well Nintendo can do whatever they want as they own the console industry right now in terms of consoles and handhelds. They will find a way to get a great storage solution and while then will show how powerful they actually are in the gaming industry by releasing Wii music and having it sell 10 million in a year.
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kesvalk - 476 days 12 hours ago
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really, they can do anything, this generation, if they lose their fans they will have a serious problem in their hands, i don't think sony and MS will stand idle about the casual gaming next-gen, and nintendo will need their fans by their side when the two start to mitigate the casual audience...

and the only way nintendo can do that is to have good IPs on their console, so hardcore fans of the series will buy it too, it's like a cycle: good series come in > fans of the series buy Nintendo console > dev-houses make the sequel in nintendo's next-gen console > fans buy Ninty next-gen console etc,etc,etc...

partially like what happened with MGS. MGS1 in PS1, MGS2 and 3 in PS2, MGS4 in PS3 and MGS fans buying sony cosoles only to play their beloved franchise...

i hope i made some sense, i think i lost myself midway in the comment...
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sidar - 476 days 12 hours ago
7 -
"but we are going to deliver a better way to store the games."

Is the Wii in some way a "Varia suit" that can be upgraded by downloading data =o and expand to a powerfull machine 0_o.

All joking aside:
I seriously wonder what they will show..if its not a HDD, and certainly not a Holographic-storage writer(since those machines are hella big for now) I can't think of anything beside them willing to offer an Online HDD, but that would mean its going to be pretty slow for some bigger games since it basically means it has to stream content.

What could it be?!
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kesvalk - 476 days 12 hours ago
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If the Wii is a Varia Suit i want a Plasma Beam in Mine! gonna kill a Neighbor every time i can't get all 100 purple coins in SMG... XD

anyway if the sollution is steaming the Wiiware and VC games, it will not be better than re-downloading the game, option we already have...

like i said above, i think that breaking the limit of the SD card and giving the Wii acess to it's contents it's the better idea i can think of...

of course they can make a HDD with the nintendo brand put wireless technology in it, and rename it to "Nintendrive", of course some head would fall if they did that...
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sidar - 476 days 11 hours ago
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"anyway if the sollution is steaming the Wiiware and VC games, it will not be better than re-downloading the game, option we already have"
Yeah i was thinking the same.
But using the SD slot will make piracy only more attractive.
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kesvalk - 476 days 11 hours ago
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they already tried to pirate Wiiware games, but the code used to recgonize the Wii don't let pirates do it, some attempts were made, but they proved to be dangerous to the console, so they were dropped.

damn, last bubble, see ya guys on another topic...
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sidar - 476 days 11 hours ago
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"they already tried to pirate Wiiware games, but the code used to recgonize the Wii don't let pirates do it,"

Well they managed allot with the Zelda hack.
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TheExodus - 476 days 12 hours ago
8 - "We are going to deliver a better way to store the games."
Nintendo could be working on a storage solution that has Samsung giving Blu-ray 5 years tops.
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steveg2564 - 476 days 11 hours ago
9 - Piracy Problem?
If they open up the SD card, they are opening up another avenue for piracy, don't you think?
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steveg2564 - 476 days 11 hours ago
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@sidar
Sorry, I saw your post after I posted, but I do agree with you.
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sidar - 476 days 11 hours ago
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actually TruthbeTold was before me...if i look at the time xD
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steveg2564 - 476 days 11 hours ago
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You're right. Hot topic. Too many posts to keep up with. :-)
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Light Yagami - 476 days 11 hours ago
10 -
Failure Nintendo!
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sidar - 476 days 11 hours ago
10.1 -
How so?
Care to share your argument?

Why did anyone disagree? How can you disagree? WTF?
I'm just curious why he thinks it's a failure.
Holy sh/t reasoning with people is bad these days =/.
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supremacy - 476 days 11 hours ago
11 - another day another article...
this article pretty much sums up how nintendo is keeping themselves away from paying anything to anyone,

you know nintendo avoiding taking a loss even if its a small one such as including a hard drive.

no offense but i think nintendo is pathetic. cheap hardware, cheap software.

and even cheap marketing and ads.

of course both the DS and wii are a source of recouping from losses they accumulated through several (N64 and Gamecube)generations heck if it weren't for the gameboy line nintendo as console manufacture would have die right after the gamecube days.

even MS almost called it quicks until halo 2 came along and help push that system to new grounds.

sony however has always been fortunate due to their expertise in hardware manufacturing and hardware and device inclusions.

if there is one thing i have learned all these years is that nintendo always makes a system in which they are really the ones making money on it, third parties don't generally make any money on its platforms.

with the exception of a few.

at least now ms has even manage to create a descent machine that offers pretty much everything "a this" generation gamers desire.

from a far superior tech to that off the wii, with lots of support and games to an un-match online service.

also there is sony, this time they have manage to exceed my expectations, they have outdone themselves once more in the technical field, i mean out of the 3 they are the ones taking on a greater to ask for risk with the inclusion of new tech under the hood. the cell? blu ray these things while are holding sony back on the profit side, are also proving beneficiary else where to them as well as to us.

i mean who doesn't watch blu ray films on their ps3s? or take full advantage of the free online service? these are great things that while it costs these companies money they are willing to say you know what? f*ck it.

nintendo on the other hand... has gone a different rout, a cheaper rout and the sad thing is many people seem to not mind at all, sure some of the games are fun at first...

but than thats it. people always come up to me and tell the same thing, that they have a wii but they usually don't use it as often as they do their 360 or their ps3.

the wii in my personal opinion is cheap, and i don't mean it in a good way either.

there games? 50% of old ps2 ports, luckily they don't have god of war there and thats because its a sony property but other than that, that would have been a game you would see on the shelves retailing for the price of newer games.

that right there is horrible. because regardless if that game was a success or not, that simply doest mean it will be a success because of the wii's sales?

exactly what are the games that sell on the wii? wii fit? thats not so much of a game, as it is something a fat person would use for self esteem purposes.

in which case you can head to the gym and meet some people while you at it, or play some basketball and you'll see that works out better for anyone.

no dvd playback? ok thats understandable its a game machine, and im cool with that. but what about online?

c'mon even sony's got the massage and to be honest they aren't doing a bad job either.

but what about nintendo?

things have changed many people like to play together, even if that means being in different places of the world.

wii it stands for us, yet you cant play with someone else unless you are both in the same room, lol c'mon. seriously.

and than there are those lousy last gen graphics. do you know how beautiful and perhaps how much more enjoyable a game like say metriod would have been, had it used atleast the unreal engine 2? had a game like that looked anything like gears or killzone 2?

and how fun and how much better had a game like smash bros could have been, if say they "atleast" had an online service like sony's psn?

and as far retro gaming goes, i think it would have had many at ease knowing they at least had a 40gb hard drive where to store these games? i know they aren't that big but as time progresses many classic will continue to come.

on the positive side, nintendo deserves my respect only because they are very creative in their own ways, and they have proven time through time that they can innovate.

but other than that, i don't see the wii as a purchase.

and just to let anyone here know, this is just my opinion im just expressing myself im not here to try to suede or convince anyone into or out of anything. just keep that in mind folks.
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sidar - 476 days 11 hours ago
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"cheap software."
= Profits = healthy for the industry.
When a company has more money they can take on bigger projects.

"exactly what are the games that sell on the wii? wii fit? thats not so much of a game, as it is something a fat person would use for self esteem purposes.
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...A wide variaty of games DO sell on the Wii.
You pretend Wii is a disaster for sales charts.
It's doing better than you actually think, do your research.
Not 50% of Wii games are ports.
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Some_One_Plays - 476 days 10 hours ago
11.2 - supremacy
lol, the way you write is unattractive to the eye so many people might not read it. Me being one of them and I thought I write a lot.
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Lithium powered - 475 days 22 hours ago
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"of course both the DS and wii are a source of recouping from losses they accumulated through several (N64 and Gamecube)generations heck if it weren't for the gameboy line nintendo as console manufacture would have die right after the gamecube days."

I'm fairly certain that the Nintendo gamecube was making profits of about $30 per console sold; may not sound like much but it was selling in the green (unlike sony and microsoft consoles who sell their consoles at a loss at first and make up their profits via software sales). In fact im fairly certain all nintendo consoles were designed to post a profit.

Here's an excerpt from an article entitled "the Nintendo method" by gameinvestor.com:

"However, what's most remarkable about Nintendo is not its current performance but the consistency of its financial performance over the last decade or so, a period in which its consoles, from generation to generation, have sold in decreasing volumes and it has lost considerable market share to new market entrants. Despite this, Nintendo's financial results have been surprisingly uniform with revenues around the 500 billion Yen mark (£2.2 billion) and operating profits (total profits before taxes and exceptional costs such as losses derived from adverse exchange rate movements) of around 100 billion Yen (£446 million). Net profits have varied a little more widely, largely because of Yen/US Dollar exchange rate movements, but for the most part have remained around the 90 billion Yen mark (£400 million)."

Source: "The Nintendo method" Gameinvestor.com, January 2007
< http://www.gamesinvestor.co...
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rbluetank - 476 days 10 hours ago
12 - sorry wii fan..but the wii was not made with a life cycle..
The wii was not supposed to sale as much as it did and has to date...counting. They made a cheap console with the fewest liability inside of it so the loses would not ruin the company if it did sale well.. The one liner about "its about game play" is -uishit at face value. If you wanted gameplay grab your ps2 and the library of great game to satisfy your hungry..not the sloppy joe's sandwiches of Next gen-not console.(Wii) There was no future design spec AKA Blue Ray or high definition games.., memory capacity and ect... Imagine eating a peanut butter sandwich made out of soybeans and grape favored tofu. nasty.. right well that what you got.. live with it. The Wii was a sucker bet of a fool is born faster then roaches at a taco bell on cinco de mayo and they won't run when you turn on the light of Truth on them. The Wii is next to last gen then next Gen...period. The face value is that you already got your $250 worthy; now move on and quite flaming a bad choice of spendage on a next gen-not console.

1) no high Def games outside of 320pi.

2) No storage capacity over 256mb.. you can only buy this at a flea market because nobody is sell this storage capacity anymore for a profit.

3) There is no future/forwarder thinking as of today. the sloppy joe console of next to gen-not consoles; besides making a new console with the future in mind besides economic based and free spirted people in spending money on "gameplay" / not common sense in Next Gen gaming. there are more but i am tired now..
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Mahr - 476 days 9 hours ago
12.1 -
....What?
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scissor_runner - 476 days 9 hours ago
12.2 -
"There is no future/forwarder thinking as of today. the sloppy joe console of next to gen-not consoles; besides making a new console with the future in mind besides economic based and free spirted people in spending money on "gameplay" / not common sense in Next Gen gaming."

Common sense would tell you to buy a PC or just upgrade your GPU. Consoles have always been fun boxes not wanna be PCs. The PS2 was a fun box that came with a "free" dvd player when every one wanted one.

Not too much about the PS3 or xbox is new territory when you can get most of that stuff needed for gaming on a PC for much cheaper and with a harddrive of your choice.

The funny thing is this sloppy job console is about to have the best 3d control ever with 1:1 control.

The HD gen is old news I'm curious as to what the next refresh is going to be for MS and SONY. I'm more excited for MS offering be cause of rumors pointing to these chips http://www.extremetech.com/...

The only sloppy joes I see are the ones that are coated with sparkling car paint that you call HD gen. Trying to do HD gaming better than what it is mimicking the PC. It does an ok job yet it doesn't really get the job done controller wise and even graphics wise.

So stop acting all elite when the HD gen is just a bad in between for real HD gaming on the PC. Hell SONY and MS can not even support their own systems with system moving software. At this point Dell could get in the console making business. The other two are a joke and no one is laughing. I really hope they get their stuff together and stop listening to the so called hardcore because every one else is not buying their cool aid. Make some fun games and fix your controllers so we can play FPS with out gimped controls and nerfed game play.
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scissor_runner - 476 days 8 hours ago
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The only fools of this gen are the ones paying too much for blu ray players and broken systems that charge you for access to online gaming when your already paying an ISP. No one is playing a PS2 unless some thing new comes out on it worth playing. Hell the VC game are way better than PS2 games any way. I mean really it took the DS to get contra right? Hell if any thing I'll be playing a DS and playing DVDs in my PS2 so my DVD player doesn't break. No one really liked the PS brand we just liked the games coming to it yet now it's a dry up waste land.

I mean People are complaining about the Wii not having enough space to save games on, not the PS3 or the xbox 360. They have huge amounts of space for what? Games, movies, demos? Who cares we need space for the Wii. Because we actually like downloading stuff to it we actually will play way more. No one cares about the other systems they have nothing to play so who cares.

When they have some thing to play or worth buying the system then we will talk about those systems in a Wii news post. Other wise we don't care. I'm ready for a PS4 or xbox 720 anyway I mean it would be nice for them to have some benefit rather than trying to mimic PC gaming which I ready play games on.

Another thing is we are not Wii fans we just need a solution for the system we own we don't need to be converted to the church of HD OK.
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Some_One_Plays - 476 days 10 hours ago
13 - Considering...
That Nintendo doesn't support HD (High Definition) and a vast majority of the games are mini games, it would be pretty easy to stream everything. The most the Wii disc can hold is 8.54GB (Dual Layer) so Nintendo is trying to be smart by looking more advanced than the competition, lol.

Nintendo is just using very old technology and mixing it with the new; Sony should do that with the Original PlayStation games by choice. That's if Nintendo is going that route.
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scissor_runner - 476 days 9 hours ago
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THIS IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING!

I wonder what they will do. Nintendo came up with their own optical disk and they made the zip drive like 64dd drive which used magnetic disk. Could they be going back to that? Nintendo likes to make use of their new attachments by making games that can not exsist with out the attachment. Could we be looking at a F-zero with a track editor? A simple Wii game with out an add on is rather odd. Yes I'm looking at you Wii music. Could this thing have a storage medium tied to it so you can sequence your own songs and use a sampler? That would be wishful thinking.

I mean the 64dd even had a 3d model making app for it and since the Wii has 1:1 movement coming a new creation tool would be fun.
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supremacy - 476 days 8 hours ago
15 - lol so you're putting up a fight, i like that lol enlighten me.
@sidar -

sidar -
"cheap software."
= Profits = healthy for the industry.
When a company has more money they can take on bigger projects.

in other words shovel ware is the way to go. if you were owner of a movie/game company or even a director i wouldn't hire you for squat. do you know how much a game like GTA 4 cost to make? 100 million but, it sells for 60 a pop, now calculate the revenue a company like rockstar is currently making of this game.

that's a lot more money than what nintendo is currently making of those cheap games, never mind gta, cod 4 halo 3 among others. movies are the same deal take the dark knight, that movie cost 185 million to make, but in less than 2 weeks it already had surpass what it too to make the film in the 1st and currently its sitting there at 500 million and change.

but if the product flops than its bad, but isn't that what we've been talking about? nintendo's strategy of ho to avoid making any lost?

"exactly what are the games that sell on the wii? wii fit? thats not so much of a game, as it is something a fat person would use for self esteem purposes.
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sidar -...A wide variaty of games DO sell on the Wii.

like? nintendo made games period, thus you are only making my point the more evident. i mean besides zelda which is also nintendo brand, sold well but check this out, this is also the same game that was due out on the gamecube, only nintendo decided to hold it back on the cube version in favor of the wii version of the same game, due of course to the grand launch of the system itself.

and if i could remember correctly wii sports, which by the way came bundle with every wii system, which is also why you and many have to pay 250 for the console in the first place you dig?

sidar -You pretend Wii is a disaster for sales charts.

no, i don't pretend, and nor i ever mention its a disaster either, but..for it being the the number one console it sure is dead last my friend. last i checked the 360 lead in attach rate sales. the ps2 was not only been the number 1 platform in its time, but it was also the leader in attach rate sales as well my friend.

sidar -It's doing better than you actually think, do your research.

i don't think anyone needs to do any research to know exactly how good the wii is doing these days and no one is taking that away. yeah its selling more consoles than the competition, but even a blind man can tell you that's only due to its price really.

i already told you, the 360 has a smaller install base than the wii according to the numbers yet, it has a higher attach rate than it? so again it's got to be the price because we all know you cant do anything else with it but play games.

in fact the 360 arcade model is just like a wii when it comes to the no hard drive policy, except its a superior system with a superior online service of which the wii doesnt even have.

and whats sad is that its going for 50 bucks less than the wii. we'll have to wait and see how the wii fairs out against this in the next several months.

and just in case you decide to bring up past generations here, i will go on the record and say sega tried the whole 200 bucks thing and look where that got them, than nintendo being in a similar financial hole at the time as sega does the same with the gamecube and we all know how they fair out in the end don't we?

but not to contradict myself here, the only reason why the wii is selling like it is, simple, its price.

now the difference between the wii and say the sega dreamcast or the gamecube for that matter is.. well lets just say its competitors didn't cost 200 or 150 dollars more, they cost only 99 more which at the time the economy was still in fair shape, there fore making them seem affordable even though they cost more.

unlike now where things are limited to a more wise, but more budget approach than before, its easy to why a cheap system could win in this case. also consider the sku, its only one when compare to the competition this in japan is goal.

one sku means no headache on choosing on which version benefits you or if another sku is going to come out soon. and due to the nature of the way a casual gamer would think i say they wouldn't stand making sku decisions the hardcore would easily make.

"Not 50% of Wii games are ports."

oh ok you got me there its not 50% its more like 49 and a half percent, "there i hope that makes you happy now?

okami prince of Persia resident evil 4 also a gamecube port if you will, and now get this tecmo is porting ps2 flop, "rygar" to the system, and we all know why tecmo has decided to make more wii games as of late lol.

i say they are right about there with snk and all the small cheap companies that develop exclusivity for the wii medium.

Man..i didn't want to have to say this but, if you are new to the game you better off boycotting the wii, in favor of any of the last gen consoles(ps2/xbox/gamecube), i mean you get the same games you are getting now for the wii at a higher price, for.. what? 20? and even 10 bucks in some places, plus more and better ACTUAL games for less as well.

heck even sony's psn features bigger, badder, better games than what you will ever find on the wii lol i mean warhawk, wipeout HD, Socom
Tekken, ect for less?

man i tell you to me, the wii isn't worth sh*t.
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SolidSnake93 - 476 days ago
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Nice speech lol.
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scissor_runner - 475 days 17 hours ago
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to supremacy we are not here to teach just talk the facts.

Yeah nice speech there. The Wii is not selling because of price along. I really hope MS knows this. I could have easily bought 3 xboxes by now instead of buying SLI cards and what not. Seriously it's the software and the controls. MS just doesn't do games it's that simple.

Seriously man the game has changed and you are using old rules from a limited play book. The Xbox arcade has pretty good hardware but it just doesn't have game that make you go wow I really want to play that game on an xbox 360 controller! Really it doesn't and that's the simple reason why even the PS3 is gaining on it.

I mean I don't mind live but it is only superior to people who don't mind being taxed to use what they already have. Yes it has some cool feature for you but really lots of people don't care about those feature if I have to pay for them, when most of those features are standard in PC gaming. Hey but once MS starts getting you guys to pay for some thing just know you'll never get it for free now.

"so i guess you are right on that front they had to go the cheap rout in other to succeed and luckily it all worked out, thanks to some good comments from the media, good pr spins and the whole intentional shortages that they been having couple with the smaller booth that they had when compared to sony's and ms's space at that e3, it got crowded and suddenly nintedo uses that as an advantage. what a joke. lol"

Dude how many people are in your family? The media, PR spin or shortages did not sell the Wii. It was the fact that that thanksgiving every one played one then you had uncles talking about it. Then you had moms happy about it. Then you had even people tired of the fanboi driven fan sites like this one talking about a game system again.

MS tried the shortage thing and it did not work. When the PS3 beat them they blamed it on a shortage. They got burned hard on that one. I mean really I don't buy stuff just because it's cheaper man and like most people I buy stuff because I want it. I mean I guess that's hard for kids to understand but when you have a good $600+ to spend on tech goodies that don't matter when ever you want you start looking for things you want once your play room gets cluttered.

Your whole thing about attach rates is sort of lame because I seriously believe the xbox 360 player simply are buying more because they are willing to blow more money on hyped games that they won't be playing in 1 months time. I mean really UT3 did not sell on the PC simply because no one believed the hype because 2004 sort of sucked. Yet 360 player are hungry for a reason to keep justify the system. Lots have given up on it and moved to the PS3.

Then I come to the truth of the matter. The Wii simply did not have a lot of 3rd party support. Games that would have pushed the Wii's attachment rate where simply not released on the system. It's very similar to the PS2 vs xbox1 scenario. PS2 owners where buying games just because their was more choice. This is a similar reason why the Wii is only slightly behind the xbox 360 when you take out Wii sports and play.

The shovelware you speak of is not that successful because it was made as shovel ware. I have not play carnival games but I hear people saying it's fun. To me Halo was shovel ware along with lots of FPS on the 360... It's a matter of opinion. Sure lots of people bought it yet it still sucks to me. It's nerfed FPS action.

"the real reason behind the 360's attach rates come in, due to xbox live, don't believe check out the numbers, of people playing on xbox everyday, anything from achivment whores to the ocasional oh you got that game than ill get it so can kick your you know what on xbox live. this is also where nintendo fail big time at least sony has something for its gamers in the form of the psn is which is slowly making its strides."

So you just explain why the live network is lame did you not. People are simply buying games because of junk talking. The fact that you can anonymously talk junk to some one makes you guys want to play. Don't people do that in IRC and other IM programs online? I mean I really don't need to know who I'm playing or contact them nintendos match making system works I can beat the hell out of people in brawl, mario kart and even find people just like in live in most of EA games for you know free. I mean that is possible because you know most PC games come with their own network set up for this. Hell even blast works lets you download stuff other people have created. I mean you have live and you are barred from even trading UT3 levels WOW. You pay for that service also ouch! I mean gamers even PS3 owners always talk about this live crap because they where once Live subscribers LOL.

I mean really like sidar said research what you are talking about man. Every thing you speak of sounds like you read it off this sight. We all know this site is mostly wrongs and opinion based. I mean every one tought AOL was a great service too until roadrunner etc. Live almost mirrors that service for gaming. Hey but if that is great for you then great.

MS definitely showed that the industry is growing and way more gullible gamers are out there than before. No one has the money to pay for the media, the tech loss, a internet tax setup as a blessing than MS. We all know that and you bought into it along with lots of other adult gamers that where wet behind the ears to online gaming. If you are a long time gamer then I will mark this brainwashing down to you wanting a change after PS brand and SONY spanked every one so long.

Seriously there is a reason many nintendo fans don't come to this site, it's because Wii sales are spawning more sale by way of word of mouth and actually playing is believing situations. A kiosk for the Wii even does better than a HD kiosk even though hardly any one plays kiosk any more. I mean explain that buy price? Well if the xbox has RROD you could blame that on price.

MS is just the first to fall. They simply don't have the skills necessary to beat nintendo this round. That skill is making games people want to play. If the Wii was so boring not one would even remember it after being sold out for this long. That fad phase does not last for years. I hope HD fans sit back and realize it's not all in the price but it's in the games. Most people don't care if some one thinks they are hardcore so they really don't care about a gamers opinion of them.
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