April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I'm tempted to remove the Wii from the console wars entirely, as its not really the same animal.

You can ask BaB on this one, I've always dismissed Wii from the console war. No matter how good it does, I still can't pull myself to call it in the same league. Its had to find good viable examples for how I feel this way outside of comparing it to handhelds... or kinda like you said, a popular Neo Geo. <_<

[Aladuf]

Originally Posted by TheGame

You can ask BaB on this one, I've always dismissed Wii from the console war. No matter how good it does, I still can't pull myself to call it in the same league. Its had to find good viable examples for how I feel this way outside of comparing it to handhelds... or kinda like you said, a popular Neo Geo. <_<

Yep, I agree. I haven't considered the Wii to be in the same league as the PS3/360 for a long time. I've looked at the console wars as 360 vs. PS3 for a while because the Wii just doesn't offer the same experience as the HD consoles. The Wii is off completely doing its own thing and it's not coming back.

I ditched my Wii a couple of weeks back because I wasn't playing the 3 or 4 first party games I actually had. I didn't own a single 3rd party game and I had/have no interest in any of them coming out or ones that have come out.

One of the things that led me to sell the Wii is the fact that there was this one night in particular about a month ago where I was bored and wanted to play some game, ANYTHING really. So I got up and went over to my games and I looked through them for a little bit just trying to figure out what I wanted to play. Eventually I found something for the 360. But a few minutes later I realized that I didn't even for a second consider looking at the Wii games. I didn't even entertain the possibility of playing that console. So that led me to say right then "Why do I even own this fucking console?"

Originally Posted by Renwood

Also, the only thing worse than Sales-Age is retarded Sales-Age. Please, all of you, stop.

There's nothing retarded about this, this thread is kind of a discussion about where the Wii's spot is in gaming today and all of that.

[BreakABone]

O for the first time in a long time. The top 20!

March/April ranks……… Title/platform/publisher
**/1 ………………Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) Take-Two*
**/2 ……………….Mario Kart (Wii) Nintendo
**/3 ……………….GTA IV (PS3) Take-Two*
4/4 ……………….Wii Play/with remote (Wii) Nintendo
1/5 ……………….Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) Nintendo
**/6 ……………….Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3) Sony
**/7 ……………….Pokemon/Explorers of Darkness (DS) Nintendo
**/8 ……………….Pokemon/Explorers of Time (DS) Nintendo
7/9 ……………….Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) Activision
9/10 ……………….Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360) Activision*
6/11 ……………….Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) Square Enix
2/12 ……………….Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) Ubisoft*
20/13 ………………..Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (PS2) Namco Bandai
19/14 ………………..Game Party (Wii) Midway
14/15 ………………..Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) Activision*
18/16 ………………..New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Nintendo
**/17 ………………..Mario Kart (DS) Nintendo
**/18 ………………..Rock Band (Xbox 360) MTV/Electronic Arts*
13/19 ………………..Mario Party (DS) Nintendo
**/20 ……………….Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) Nintendo

And since someone did the work.
Wii-6
DS-5
360-4
PS3-2
PS2-2
PSP-1

http://www.themanandhischeese.pwp.bl.../aprilnpd.html

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

O for the first time in a long time. The top 20!

March/April ranks……… Title/platform/publisher
**/1 ………………Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360) Take-Two*
**/2 ……………….Mario Kart (Wii) Nintendo
**/3 ……………….GTA IV (PS3) Take-Two*
4/4 ……………….Wii Play/with remote (Wii) Nintendo
1/5 ……………….Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii) Nintendo
**/6 ……………….Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3) Sony
**/7 ……………….Pokemon/Explorers of Darkness (DS) Nintendo
**/8 ……………….Pokemon/Explorers of Time (DS) Nintendo
7/9 ……………….Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) Activision
9/10 ……………….Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360) Activision*
6/11 ……………….Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP) Square Enix
2/12 ……………….Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (Xbox 360) Ubisoft*
20/13 ………………..Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (PS2) Namco Bandai
19/14 ………………..Game Party (Wii) Midway
14/15 ………………..Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) Activision*
18/16 ………………..New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Nintendo
**/17 ………………..Mario Kart (DS) Nintendo
**/18 ………………..Rock Band (Xbox 360) MTV/Electronic Arts*
13/19 ………………..Mario Party (DS) Nintendo
**/20 ……………….Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) Nintendo

And since someone did the work.
Wii-6
DS-5
360-4
PS3-2
PS2-2
PSP-1

Two of the Wii games are Nintendo's hot new games, one is the follow-up, of sorts, to Wii Sports, another is the system's best-selling non-bundled game poking it's head back on the charts... And Guitar Hero III...

But what I find most interesting is the fact that "Game Party" (which came out back in DECEMBER) is not only in the top 20, but that it actually moved up 5 slots from March to April...
*ponders*

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Two of the Wii games are Nintendo's hot new games, one is the follow-up, of sorts, to Wii Sports, another is the system's best-selling non-bundled game poking it's head back on the charts... And Guitar Hero III...

But what I find most interesting is the fact that "Game Party" (which came out back in DECEMBER) is not only in the top 20, but that it actually moved up 5 slots from March to April...
*ponders*

Not quite sure what you are trying to say with this post.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

Not quite sure what you are trying to say with this post.

The first half of that post was actually edited to replace what I had previously written there, which was "Well it has been a busy two months for Nintendo, with 2 big franchise releases"...
Which I guess was what I was saying... But that didn't comment on the other 4 Wii games in the top 20...

Wii Play and Game Party are both basically just (according to "the people") mediocre-terrible mini-game compilations in the vein of Wii Sports...
Maybe Game Party will one day have a spot on the top 20 list of bestselling Wii games, next to Carnival Games, with it's 1.7+ million sales...

So ultimately, in the face of another silly PS3 vs. 360 vs. Wii graphic, I was pointing out that the only surprise on that list is the fact that some of Wii's terrible games are actually selling, after all...

[Aladuf]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

So ultimately, in the face of another silly PS3 vs. 360 vs. Wii graphic, I was pointing out that the only surprise on that list is the fact that some of Wii's terrible games are actually selling, after all...

What's surprising about that? People can't stop forking out the money for these piece of shit non-games.

Game Party's Metacritic score: 25

And yet this thing is on the Top 20, fucking pathetic.


Edit: And people wonder when 3rd party developers will ever put out a respectable game on the Wii. Why the hell should they? If you can scrap together a "gem" like Game Party and be on the Top 20 and actually be moving up it, why the hell would you ever worry about making a quality game?