Wii: A Threat to Gaming?

[Thespis721]

Hm. Been a while...

Anyway, I think that anyone who thinks that the Wii is going to be the harbinger of death to gaming is being very dramatic. I see at least ten articles a year about how the Wii is ruining gaming just like I see at least ten articles a year about how PC Gaming will be dead before the year is up. Point is, there are still fantastic games out there and PC Gaming is just as strong as it was five years ago.

I also feel like arguments in this thread are rather pointless. Not everyone is going to like the Wii. I'm sure BaB was just trying to gauge opinion but no one is going to suddenly change their minds on gaming from this thread. Microsoft is doing just fine, even better, this generation and will not be disappearing anytime soon. SONY is having some problems but that is more their mistakes then anything Nintendo is doing. And Nintendo has put out a lot of sh*t games and I don't buy them. I buy the good ones and I enjoy them and my friends enjoy them and Yahtzee doesn't and that's fine.

I appreciate Nintendo, though, for at least taking a shot in a new direction, which is more then you can say about SONY and Microsoft. I love that the big two have IMPROVED what was already established last generation (especially online community) but having an innovator in more then just what is established is necessary. And if the result of all this is that Microsoft improves on what Nintendo has done and makes a bomb-ass battle suit game with Natal, then I'm happy everything happened.

I personally am happy with the generation. Lots of great games. More then I can buy. I can't really ask for anything more.