I’m toying with the idea of getting a Wii, the first time I’ve ever wanted a console since I tired of my SNES in about 1995. It looks quite good fun, but is it going to be worth it? Nintendo have always tried to puch gaming with new ideas and often failed (remember the SuperScope?). Plus is the competition better? The XBox 360 strikes me as a bit of a boys toy for diehard gaming fans and the PS3 doesn’t seem to bring that much to the table in the way of innovation. Still at the end of the day it’s about the games—are they better or worse? Is the Wii just a fad?
its way too early to tell really
remember the SuperScope?
ha ha, NO
it will indeed be a fad, and a failure. Do you know why? Because I’m going to buy one.
Fuck those shit marketing strategies—I claim full responsibility for single handedly destroying Sega’s console ventures, buy simply purchasing every one of their consoles.
I now wearily turn my war torn bloody eyes towards Nintendo.
We’re gettig a Wii. It’ll be like the Nintendo DS: I played the shit out of Zookeeper (and I fucking RULED) and then I neglect it. At least I’ll be doing some sports. That’s the only excuse I can find for buying the Wii. Oh and Ophelia demanded one. I think. She was mumbling something. ;-)
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i got a PSP last week, fairly impressed with it. Although the power button is in a stupid place—i accidentally switched it off at one point.
my Superscope was awesome until it broke after like a week
I have no interest in the Wii, and don’t see (yet) what the PS3 offers me over the XBox 360.
Biggest problem with the 360 thus far is that Madden blows. Slow, awkward, the franchise mode is a step back, gameplay doesn’t work right (this year I quit playing because every game was prolonged by pointless and unavoidable cut-scenes of the linemen getting ready, etc.)—nice graphics, though.
If the PS3 can provide me Madden with great graphics and the gameplay I’m used to, I’ll buy one next summer.
I’ll probably get a Wii next year. The thing is fully compatible with Gamecube games, right?
yep
Apparently on Wii Madden to chuck a pass downfield you actually swing the Wii remote like it’s a pigskin. Broken TVs ahoy!
the wii is really, really fun
360 is the one if you are not a wii fanboy
ps3 is offering nothing that 360 doesn’t have besides slightly better graphics and one or two exclusive titles (metal gear and?)
If I wasn’t up to my eyeballs in babies, I’d get a Wii. As soon as the 360 ships with a built-in HDDVD player (or BluRay?), I think that would be the next one to get. PS3 seems like a crazy boondoggle. Maybe in a year or so, when some the services are online, and the programmers get the hang of writing for yet another wacky Sony-only architecture, the games will nose ahead of the 360. But for now, there seems to be little difference. Plus, the 360 has Rockstar’s Table Tennis! Why no Wii version?
Fuck new video game systems. Too expensive and not enough decent games. I guarantee there’ll be another crash in about three years.
The Wii really does look wonderful—my friend Indy, a die-hard RPG and shooter connoisseur, has been raving about the bowling game, for Chrissakes. But sometime around the debut of the Gamecube (whose back catalog still tempts me from time to time), I made the personal conclusion that buying a system was basically plunking down money in order to have a less satisfying life, since games by and large suck away time from things I’d rather be doing, except that I lack the willpower to resist the easy fix of games when they’re in the house. :(
More “social” games have a stronger pull, I’ll admit—if the Wii gets a Guitar Heroes type game, it might really get tough to resist if I weren’t broke all the time..
I’m not all that sure the wave-a-stick thing sells me; we just dont have the livingroom space for pretending at golf/bowling/being Link. But I see you can buy regular controlers for the thing too.
Seeing as I think we’re only interested in Twilight Princess at this point tho, Nick’s gonna get the GC versh. So no Wii for now. Maybe in a while.
I guarantee there’ll be another crash in about three years.
not unless you think china, japan, the EU, australia, canada AND the states are all headed for some kind of simultaneous depression! Too much spare time and spare change going around makes a populace idle and demanding of entertainment.
anyway, the wii seems to have the most to offer for the average joe.
the 360 isn’t bad for people who want HD and PC-like no-holds-barred network competition/coop.
the PS3 is for people who have more money than sense.
for non-gamers such as me, the wii is a hell of a good time.
one or two exclusive titles (metal gear and?)
Virtua Fighter 5, Final Fantasy XIII, Devil May Cry 4...looks as though potential system selling stuff like Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto 4 will be getting a 360 release.
the PS3 is for people who have more money than sense
The people the video game industry has been making money out of since 1978, basically.
haha Dom you’d like to have money
Fuck new video game systems. Too expensive and not enough decent games. I guarantee there’ll be another crash in about three years.
too expensive? the wii ain’t that expensive.
haha.
oh yeah, and the DOA movie is coming out next month.
xp
we just dont have the livingroom space for pretending at golf/bowling/being Link.
As I understand it most (all?) games can be played by sitting on your arse and using flicks of the wrist.
or as some would demonstrate it:
I have no interest in the Wii, and don’t see (yet) what the PS3 offers me over the XBox 360.
Not so much, Jon.
Yeah, that Wii remote is something else. What will Nintendo think of next? Maybe some sort of gun with which you could shoot at ducks inside the television?
Front if you want, but you know it’ll be fun.
I just got commitment from the girl to buy core system when I find it, leaving me to cover the remaining 150 for zelda, xtra wiimote w/chuk, 2000 wii points and tax.
I just gotta beat FFXII first.
I predict the VIRTUAL BOY is going to be the top system in ’07!
yeah JW has a habit of repeating things he learns the week or so prior, regardless of context. I like that about him though, reminds me of me.
Anyway:
What will Nintendo think of next?
They might think of another scheme wherein developers are given the chance to finally stretch their talent at minimal upfront $$$ while offering the highest revenue potential for any platform per unit sold, on a console which they themselves make a profit on from launch day forward, yada yada fucking yada.
Anyway if anybody else has $500–700 to throw away for the chance to play such classics as FPS: Apocalypse In The Future, FPS: Apocalypse In The Future, or FPS: Apocalypse In The Future, let me know how fun that shit is, maybe I’ll eat ramen for a month and join you.
b-b-but Star Wars: Battlefront III takes place a long, long time ago.
Isn’t the problem with the Ninetendo consoles that they just seem so... kiddie compared with the Playstations?
If I were to buy any of these (which I’m not) I’d go for the one that is likely to get the best range, the biggest games and the most staying power and I bet that’ll be the PS3.
I’ll have a wii
in a wiik and two days!
Checked out the Wii at a local EB games when I stopped by the local zombie mall to get measured for a coat. Excite Truck seems like a fun drunk party thing, assuming you can race two cars at once.
ExciteTruck has a split-screen 2-player.
Played Wii last night, am in LOVE. The Zelda sword-swings aren’t anything more than a wiggle of the remote, but that is still way more satisfying/hilarious than button-mash + button-mash. Also, when they come out with a Wii Fly Fishing game, I will be the first in line to buy.
Also I don’t think I’m alone in assuming FPS: Apocalypse In The Future is going to be way more fun on Wii, for 1/2—1/3 the price.
i might buy a XBOX 360 JUST so i can play retro Sensible Soccer online as the good gamelord intended. altho this may not be necessary if the SS.de forum comes back up.
fucking can’t wait for wii
Isn’t the problem with the Ninetendo consoles that they just seem so... kiddie compared with the Playstations?
nintendo’s a seven year-old, xbox and playstation are 15—take yr pick.
I ended up doing a lot of jabs playing Twilight Princess, not necessarily because the enemies called for it, just because LOL I R jabbing w/ my hand!
likely to get the best range, the biggest games and the most staying power and I bet that’ll be the PS3
meh:
not at $700 a pop, and the company still losing money at that price, and developers shying away. a year or two from now somebody will write an article and the title will be “blu-ray killed the playstation star.” And I’ll get that fucking song stuck in my head, just like I did to myself just now.
My main problem with the Wii is that most of the games look like gimmicky rubbish, and in the areas where it was supposed to excel (ie FPS) the limits of the controller are already becoming apparent. The only thing its got going for it is a Game Cube game. Whoop dee doo.
Nintendo: why didn’t you bring out a proper console? Why have you gone down the Russell T. Davies route of destroying something good by remaking it for women and gays?
because Nintendo is actually Japanese for ‘quiche stilettos’, you clod.
you dudez can just play xbox is the idea right?
a proper console
“you dudez can just play xbox is the idea right?”
So the people who actually play games buy an Xbox and spend several hundred pounds on games and accessories. The Women and Gays who don’t play games buy the Wii, play Wii sports for 5 minutes, then go off and talk about shoes or something.
Excellent plan.
The Women and Gays, still hoping for that breakout single to pitch them into the limelight
Also: Why bring out a version of ‘Brain training’ when science have proved that women’s brains cannot be trained? Surely some kind of parking/spacial awareness simulator would be more beneficial?
sub-darramouss at best
How I wish lack of driving skills was gender based...
Though Immanent Gaze deserve video games too.
I wanna see how the control schema for Super Smash Bros works with this thing.
Well your sub-Alexius II at best—and i had him strangled.
I tell you, back in my day we’d have dealt with tykes like you by having your eyes torn from your head. These days...pah! it’s political correctness gone mad!
Maybe that’s the wrong cognitive bias, but thinking that the system you bought is the best choice in spite of evidence is like Psych 101 dudes? (Although, I figure the XBOX360 is pretty good!) SEE: the ILG saga of me and my PSP
I tell you, back in my day we’d have dealt with tykes like you by having your eyes torn from your head.
bah, get a better gimmick
I don’t know...you’d need a hell of a lot cognative balance to think the Wii was a good idea after your remote had gone through the tele, the autoupdate had bricked your system and you’d realised that all you had to play were shit minigames or crippled versions of 360/PS3 games that would probably work better with a decent controller.
there’s no way you could break yr tv screen with that remote—you could break the remote tho.
anyway i’m gonna get this shits and i haven’t owned a system since the nes (extensive snes and genesis @ friends houses).
also there’s this
I’ll be so happy when pop industrial/product design trends get beyond the “candy-coated” approach.
I can’t tell if trolling newcomer is Darramouss and/or Nude Spock.
What kind of retard pays $700 on a fricking game console? There’s like no argument here; unless the PS3 forms Voltron and then cleans your house and I haven’t been told about it, wtf are you doing. It really doesn’t have any greater game reach than the X-Box seems to and it’s nearly 2x the price.
I’m looking vaguely forward to “breaking my tv” playing MIME MADDEN, btw. But that is because I am both a Women and a Gay.
Surely if you are both a woman AND gay I would have thought something macho like Gears Of War would have been more up your alley? (as, presumably, would smoking a pipe and wearing a tweed jacket?)
No, i am neither your ‘Darramouss’ nor your ‘Nude Spock’. I am me—the one and only Andronicus Comnenus.
Results 1—10 of about 23,700 for Andronicus Comnenus. (0.31 seconds)
Yeah? how many of them:
-Slept with most of the female members of their family
-Did away with their troublesome nephew, and most of the nobility
-Directly led to the downfall of one of History’s greatest empires
I’m the one and only, baby.
ban nude spock
true, most roman emperors never had gmail addresses or friendster accounts with vaguely child-pred-looking photos
xp
Well we didn’t have Gmail back in my day, obviously. Its only in the retired tyrants home that i’m allowed near a new-fangled computerbox.
Do you actually have some evidence for any of your claims? If its because i don’t like the Wii i think its a little unfair—it does, after all, only mean i am a sane rational human being.
Honestley, you’re lucky i’m in a good mood. Otherwise you’d all be a bit ‘Renier of Montferrat’ by now.
2/10
2/10? Which are you: A woman, or a gay?
Hey nude spock, did you get bored with trying to circumvent my blog’s spam filter? Some troll you are. You have no game.
That secondary Wii controller looks awful. Everyone else gives you form-fitted grips, Nintendo gives you the option of a Super Nintendo controller.
Why do all the display Wiis in Best Buy/Gamestop/etc. have no controllers? What’s the point?
(xp) That’s why you’re a reject. Never had no game, no shows, no movies. ILX, that’s it.
Darramouss was better, and he wasn’t even trying.
I think the Super Nintendo style pad is for people who want more of a throwback design. The Wavebird is also 100% compatible, I imagine most people will wind up going for that instead.
Does the classic controller have a Z trigger or whatever?
Why do all the display Wiis in Best Buy/Gamestop/etc. have no controllers? What’s the point?
the one at EB has it where you leave your ID at the desk, and you get the controller to play with
Only for women and gays with proper ID.
well, yes, but women and gays have been allowed to drive for at least 3 years now
Actually, i’m rather entertained by nude spock’s ability to pop up in a thread on any subject and be a douche. Does he show up on the football or cricket or cooking threads with the same approach?
I think those two little buttons just inward of the R & L buttons on the classic controller are BOTH Z buttons!
oh sweet, i just realized that this thing can be used to play Odama, assuming it hasn’t gone out of print and $80 on ebay by then
The classic controller is ok.
Larry, is it better or worse than gamecubes
The weird hand dongles on gamecube/PS2/xbox controllers (PS2 & xbox more than gamecube though, but none as much as N64 controller [wtf were they thinking?]) sometimes give me hand-cramps, Wii classic controller looks like it will be less cramp/sweat producing.
It still looks too wide, though. Mostly because of the room given for the analog sticks on the bottom.
^ still the best controller ever, in terms of comfort and practicality.
Larry, is it better or worse than gamecubes
It’s worse and also not wireless.
^ still the best controller ever, in terms of comfort and practicality.
— step hen faps (curtis.stephen...), November 29th, 2006.
otm!
though i’d say the 6-button “arcade pad” for the genesis/megadrive was pretty close.
the worst thing about the genesis 6 button controller were people who had only one of those and insisted on using it when they played you in mortal kombat or whatever
the worst thing about the genesis 6 button controller were people who had only one of those and insisted on using it when they played you in mortal kombat or whatever
holy shit isn’t that the truth
yeah, endless drag was playing SF2/Killer Instinct/MK with the regular sega/SNES controllers
the worst thing about the genesis 6 button controller were people who had only one of those and insisted on using it when they played you in mortal kombat or whatever
— jw (jo...), November 29th, 2006.
hahahahahahahaha i WAS that person
Nah the worst thing is when you totally play fair and give your guest the better/least fucked up controller and they’re still convinced that you’re cheating somehow, like one friend that thought I had somehow rigged it so I could take more hits than him in Halo.
not much to see, but it’s a start:
Okay, I’m definitely going to get one of these soon as I’ve just come into a little money. Is it £179.99 across the board for Wii + Wii Sports and one controller? Or is there anywhere in the UK that does a better deal? I think buying extra controllers is what’s going to rinse me.
Oh great so the only alternative to the controller for WOMEN, GAYS and probably SPASTICS is some kind of bastardisation of the worst bits of the SNES controller and the Dual Shock. Well done guys.
Predictable spastics reference, -10 points.
No love for SNES controller, -10 points.
Oh dear.
The Snes controller was alright in a time before games companies had discovered ergonomics (certainly better than Sega’s Saturn/DC strategy of adding buttons to something resembling a dinner plate)—but to release something like it in the present day is just silly. Especially if you’re going to copy Sony’s uncomfortable and practically unusable analog stick placement.
Predictable reference to Spastics? It’s not my fault that Nintendo and chums feel compelled to include them in most of the promotional material:
Yeah, i want to play games looking like that man. I’m sure he has LOTS of friends :|
in your head, is there a studio audience laughing at and applauding everything you say and do?
He has his own personal Excelsior department in there.
“in your head, is there a studio audience laughing at and applauding everything you say and do?”
nah, In my head there’s a forum of pathetic infantile 30-somethings. Rather than applauding they simply post ‘grebt’ at everything i say and do, before making a rubbish joke about kittens.
banned from ile, ip banned from the site.
i find it strangely easy to ignore the guy
oh no you di int!!
xpost
anyway, surely PS3 price will drop three months after launch when they realise people be baulking at the cost, and three months after that there might be some decent games.
That’s because he was utter rubbish. I thought ILX trolls had more class. xposts
ha
“That’s because he was utter rubbish. I thought ILX trolls had more class. xposts”
Using dismissive posts in place of actual retorts -10 points
Being a bit podgy and looking like a pedophile -10 points
What utter rubbish i thought geeky 80s fan children had more class :(
WDYLL?
I am trying to convince my mum-in-law that we could have lotsa happy good fun family times with a Wii, and thus procure one with her funds. I am sick of her pwning me & the fiance at Triv Pursuit and my Wii lust must be satiated soon before I get an aneurysm or something. I have not been this stoked on a thing since SNEs.
there’s no way you could break yr tv screen with that remote—you could break the remote tho.
This “I smashed my telly with a wii controller” meme is catching on.
Bleah. Big whiff from the Onion on that one. I’m going to assume that Chris D. didn’t write it.
WILMINGTON, N.C.—A young man accused of robbing a fellow college student of two new PlayStation 3 video game consoles was shot and killed—possibly while holding a game controller—by officers sent to arrest him.
Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, Sheriff Sid Causey said.
Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed when he got up from playing a Tiger Woods golf game but may have been holding a controller when he went to the door as officers bashed it in. Strickland’s dog also was shot to death.
The sheriff said Strickland was shot by members of a specially trained team who went to help university officers serve arrest warrants. Causey said officers considered the arrest a high-risk situation.
“Anytime that someone beats a person severely and commits an armed robbery, I certainly would consider him a risk and a danger,” Causey said.
The sheriff said the robbery victim waited in line for three days to buy the units for $641 each at a Wal-Mart. He was unloading them at his campus apartment when one man beat him to the ground while another took the consoles, Causey said.
The Associated Press
srsly
Let’s not forget about the greedy dude getting beat down. That was karma for buying 2 PS3s
remember the SuperScope?
He’s supposed to be Koopa, and those guys behind him are supposed to be Goombas. That movie is so fucking weird.
i know! the movie is really creative in its interpretation of the game. sadly, it’s also terrible.
i enjoyed its reinforcing of negative italian-american stereotypes.
“stereotypes”
I love the “sequel set-up” ending. Yeah, riiiight.