Before I fly into a debate with Jase over here, (which, might I add, we are doing in a very gentlemanly fashion, without insulting anybody/anybody' s wives
) I should point out that this isn' t going to become a free-for-all Wii-bash. It' s not what the threads intention was, there' s about a million other places on the forums for that nonsense.
As a bit of an experiment I asked the missus (pretty much non-gamer) whether she prefered the controls of the Wii or the 360 (she likes the 360 because we have our entire music collection on it mainly). She said that she thought the 360 controls where ' old fashioned' compared to the Wii. I suggested that the Wii graphics were nowhere near up to the level of the 360 but she disagreed saying that she hadn' t noticed any difference.
It' s not insane at all, I' m drawing the conclusion that your wife just doesn' t really care about the graphics, which is completely fine. Not everybody has to worry about stuff like that to enjoy games.
The example you' re giving me totally supports what' s happening in the market right now. Kids & non-gamers are flocking to the Wii in droves due to the amount of simpler more family-oriented games. Now while there' s nothing wrong with titles like that, it doesn' t justify me buying one until I see some real support from developers in the NEAR future, not next Christmas, not whenever prodigal
developer X decides to release their masterpiece, now.
Mate, my missus thinks that the controls of Zeld:TP aren' t difficult!
That' s because they' re not, dude.
To take you up on antother point - I don' t see ' crippled' ports of 360/ps3 games being a problem for the Wii.
I do, because they already are.
I would hope and expect to see devs creating unique content for the Wii. Slapping motion control onto sub par ports would be the worst thing that could happen.
Blazing Angels?
Call of Duty 3?
FarCry: Vengeance?
Godfather?
MoH: Vanguard?
Splinter Cell: DA?
Harry Potter and the Orde... wait... scrap that. Thems be subpar from the get!
The developers are lazy, and while it' s not fault of Nintendo' s that the developers are sitting on their hands with their Wii dev-kits, They could have done a lot more to make sure we had some decent games to play over the summer. The lame ports wouldn' t be so much of a problem if it weren' t for the fact that there isn' t much else to play.
Ant Bully?
Avatar?
Barnyard?
Balls of Fury?????????????????????????????
Bionicles?
Crash Dummy vs. The Evil D-Troit? (This game makes me want to hurt something near & dear
)
Earache: Extreme Metal Racing?
High School Musical?
If the Wii continues selling as it is then I expect to see PS3/360 cross platform games with sepearate Wii games.
That' s in essence how they' re being developed now, two developers working on the PS3/360 titles with the Wii version being shipped off to some unknown developer in hopes that it will at least try to emulate the 360/PS3 versions. Like I said before, there' s plenty of decent ideas, and tons of good developers, but the solid cards haven' t hit the table yet.
The Wii will have its day, & I' ll be right there to pick one up when the time comes, but until then, I' m content with my 360 & hopefully a PS3.