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Re: Wii: A Threat to Gaming?
Old 08-31-2009, 01:30 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by BreakABone View Post
For once this isn't a validation thread, I am honestly wanted to know if people have an issue with the Wii and its position in gaming.

Like I said this thread got off to the wrong start, but there are people in journalism who want to see this thing fall... and fall hard, and I just don't get that.

I understand not liking something that's understandable, but I don't get why people are so eager to see it wiped off the face of the planet.
To me it sounds like a validation thread really. Seems that you haven't moved past your old empty points that may have actually meant something 2 weeks after Ps3 launched. Its pretty much me saying I don't like where gaming has went this gen, while you're trying to make it sound like I'm not qualified to make that judgement for one reason or another.

I actually don't have a problem directly with Wii, other then the fact that it represents a very broken part of the industry in my opinion. You can sit there and say a lot of work went into Wii, which it may have.. but the end result is 5 year old technology being used to make a simplistic shallow game that's nice at parties. (Granted, that's not ALL the games, just the majority of the big sellers)

In my opinion that shouldn't be rewarded.

But the issues Wii has aren't new ones. It just happens to put together exactly what I didn't like about Psx and Ps2, and lost the things that made those systems enjoyable to me anyway dispite their flaws. If Wii was a more hardcore gaming system with more competitive hardware and better support for the games I like (listed in my last post).. then I'd still love it dispite its flaws too.

But instead all I see is the cheap, low priced, rushed, gimmicky system with hardly any of the games I care for being extremely sucsessful. Wii proves that older generation systems won because they were cheap, rushed, and had some attractive gimmick their competition couldn't handle as well. Its just that they happend to have more games that I personally like more on them.

But I'd like to stress again this is my opinion. To me Wii is just the face of what's wrong with the industry. All of the systems have their flaws in my opinion though, its just this thread happens to be about Wii.
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