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" I kind of feel that you pulled some of those facts out of thin air...I swear I've heard Nintendo has been strugling with attach rates (the number of game sold per console sold) but maybe I've misinformed.  Anyway I would say from a sales stand point Nintendo won, yes obviously...although that really doesn't matter to me at all, I still get far better quality games and more of the genres that I am looking for on the 360 and PS3.  The motion control stuff is kind of silly to me, sure it is fun to play Wii drunk with a few friend because it is simple as hell, but when I got a day off work with nothing better to do but play games I don't want to swing a remote back and forth for five hours (this applies to Natal and Sony's thing too).  I hate to break it to you but this is just a toy, even Nintendo devs know that and include classic controls on anything worth respecting.  I bet that the next Nintendo console has a better classic controler along with a more advanced motion one, you just can't run a respectable system without some sort of classic control scheme. "

" Theirs only a handful of good games...so no.. "

" Let's see. In the last year I've used my PS2 more then my Wii. That should tell you something right there. The only thing that Nintendo has succeeded at is getting non-gamers to play videogames to a certain extent. Overall I'm very disappointed with the Wii and it hasn't been the  great innovative console I thought it would be. "

" Yeah yeah it's great that the other consoles are following suit with the motion controls and all that but at the end of the day, my Wii is still collecting dust. So...whatevs. "

" Yah we get it Nintendo won based on sales. Also yah thanks for introducing motion controls. IMO 360 and PS3 is for the core gamers. The Wii is just a platform for minigames. Yes I have a Wii but the damn thing collects dust because the last games I bought for that thing was Super Smash Bros Brawl and Metroid Prime 3. On the games side of things Nintendo finished dead last. "

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@Seppli said:

" @oldschool: My argument still stands. Nintendo did fail their core audience. They tapped into the market of succermoms (fitness) and drunks (minigames). Nothing Nintendo offers, has any appeal to me. This generation, Nintendo has lost me. I care about what I want. I don't give two shits about their sales. They don't mean nothing to me.That's my perspective on this matter. Nintendo lost me. Nintendo lost the core audience. Nintendo doesn't get us. Simple as that.Belitteling my opinion by calling me immature, shows a great deal of disrespect. For that, sir, I spit on you! "

What could Nintendo do to win you back Seppli? If new Mario and Metroid titles don't excite you, then it's doubtful that anything they could do ever will.I can understand if you don't like fitness games or mini-game collections. But if other people do then isn't that cool? If the older generation are finally getting into games isn't that something to celebrate? I think it's cool that people are waking up to the potential of games. "

By investing all that money into some serious research and developement.  Freeing the game developers community of all technological boundries. Gaming limited only by the imagination and the craftsmanship of the devs.I want to see them invest into futuristic technologies like 'ONlive'. Building a supercomputer network for some serious cloud computing. Investing their money into a better gaming future. "

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@Afroman269 said:

" Yah we get it Nintendo won based on sales. Also yah thanks for introducing motion controls. IMO 360 and PS3 is for the core gamers. The Wii is just a platform for minigames. Yes I have a Wii but the damn thing collects dust because the last games I bought for that thing was Super Smash Bros Brawl and Metroid Prime 3. On the games side of things Nintendo finished dead last. "

Why is that the only thing people talk about.  It is a broken record.  But I am gald you agree with my blog points.

For the love of SpongeBob can people read - NO VALUE JUDGEMENT.  I make no claims as to whether it is good, bad or indifferent.  It is good that there is innovation, but the outcome of that innovation is personal opinion.  My only opinion is about how it will be applied and marketed.

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To me it looks like you are only giving a slanted view to all of this. Why don't you mention anything about how for every solid wii game there are at least 15 shit wii games are released as well? My opinion is that you wouldn't include that because your not exactly a core gamer if you don't really enjoy playing games for the 360 or PS3. All your proving is that the Wii has won this generation yet the average core gamer doesn't give a shit about this thread because the games they want to play are on a 360 or PS3. "

" I don't know which is sadder: console bashing threads or console defense threads. "