Well just gonna correct your facts, the Wii was actually the last console out of the gate this generation as the Xbox 360 was out a year before it, and Ps3 I believe was out 2 weeks before it.
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...Wii can never get a competitive version of Oblivion, GTA games, MGS games, full Final Fantasy Games, respectable sports sims, respectable fighting games.. MMORPGs... or any of the games that really lifted the bar this gen. ..and new companies can't take a big risk on it, because its old hardware will make anything look bad when compared to Ps3/360...
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I think you mean graphical competitive because it could do most of those games just fine since the majority of them worked on PS2 and Xbox and those were lesser hardware.... and also...
http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...woodspgatour10 Respectable sports game
http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...tionsoccer2009
Another
http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...ii/maddennfl09
One more
http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...ackhandedition
Respectable GTA clone and IMO the best version of the game.
A really respectable fighter.
What looks like a fine Final Fantasy game.
And things don't exist in a vacuum I understand that, but if this generation has proven anything is... well graphics aren't everything and they are probably far from the mind of the mainstream audience. So if you create compelling software, which is very much possible, people will buy it.
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And I already know you're going to act like Wii's motion controls were the big advancement.. but that's when it comes back to personal game preference, and where you want to see things go. Look at ign, all the games that got scores of 8 to 10 on Ps3 and 360. How many of those can really be done on Wii? That's just proof that Wii is moving in a different direction... and you see Sony's already trying to copy the motion controls.
Though sixaxis always had the ability for motion controls, its just going to be something Sony works in more with more shallow games to compete with Nintendo... Just take that as a hint of why something that's too casual winning is not going to do any good for the industry. All of the next gen consoles are going to have motion controls, unless Wii dies down and is proven to be a fluke.
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Well, I understand its personal preference, which is why this statement would sound redundant, but some people enjoy motion controls, and see how it is possible to enhance current genres and games.
My main beef with the Wii, as I'm sure it is with a lot of folks, is for all the potential that is hidden within in the Wii-mote it usually boils down to button replacement. Developers just substitute pressing A with shaking the controller in any which direction, which isn't the point of it. Or at least not the potential people saw at the end.
And I don't like it anymore, but can you go back to calling them cheap and arcadey or whatever, I loathe loathe loathe the division between hardcore and casual gaming. People make it sound like a plight that not everyone exists hundreds of hours into games a year, and somehow those people are worse off. At least with arcadey and cheap, you are defining the game and not the person.