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The Nintendo Wii is a home video game console released on November 19, 2006. The Wii's main selling point was the innovative use of motion controls that its signature Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers allowed for. It became the best selling home console of its respective generation of hardware.
Recent IGN hate for the Wii
You can't be bothered to look up their review? Alright then, copy/paste GO" @Symphony said:
" I'm pretty sure you can sum up IGN with this -- They gave BlazBlue a 9.4 but forgot to mention the bonus CD content was created by them and voiced by Chobot."Source please. I do feel the Wii suffers from a lot of shovelware and lack of good games. There are only so many ways you can give the people Mario. "
Taken right from their BlazBlue review.
This part is highlighted and boxed as to stand out in the review --
The initial run of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is actually pretty special, as there's no Standard Edition to be found. That's right: the first copies of BlazBlue will all be Limited Edition. You get the game in its fancy packaging, a two-disc soundtrack full of some fantastic music and a bonus DVD filled with helpful tutorial information -- all for the price of a standard retail game. This really blows other Limited Editions out of the water, considering how both pack-ins are not only "free" but are actually worth getting.
Eventually, BlazBlue will have a Standard Edition run which I will examine when the time comes. But for now, everyone buying BlazBlue gets a very nice package with some great character art on the outside. Inside the box is the aforementioned soundtrack, which spans an impressive 42 tracks across two discs. Composed by ARC System Works designer Daisuke Ishiwatari, these tunes are actually worth giving a listen.
Lastly, the bonus DVD is designed to be an introduction/tutorial to the BlazBlue universe. Although the menus and overall presentation might seem like they came straight out of Apple's iDVD software, the actual information presented is fantastic. Not only are all the game's basic battle systems explained, but BlazBlue experts are brought in to describe character-specific strategies and tips for beginners.
If you didn't already figure it out, I'll summarize my thoughts on this run of BlazBlue: buy it. You can read more about my feelings on the game itself below, but getting all this Limited Edition content for the price of a standard retail game is a steal.
See any mention that they're the ones that created the content? I sure don't.
I'm sorry What? I mean seriously how can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you claim that PC Hardcore Gaming was killing the industry in the 80s and Nintendo flooded the market with family friendly shovel-ware to save the games industry?" @Manatassi said:
For the vast majority of the gaming audience, they haven't played any Metroid Prime games. Neither have I. Putting all three of them together with better controls is a fantastic idea. I haven't played NSMBWii yet, but it's kinda hilarious that's the only game you bought for it, and then complain you are bored with it. Why do games you have not played killed the console for you? Isn't that the point of the Wii, to try new experiences? Mario Galaxy 2 sounds cool, but I am more excited for other Wii games next year. Heck, before I buy any 2010 games, I am going to buy the ones I missed this year." The fact that Metroid Prime Trillogy keeps coming up at the top of the wii exclusives lists this year says allot as its a rehash of 3 previously released games, two of which are getting pretty old at this point. This year was a Joke for the Wii. I bought ONE game (NSMB Wii) this year and nothing else could really tempt me. The crummy old standard def graphics and novelty "family games" and shovel-ware have just killed the Wii for me. Even my 11 year old son is bored with the damn thing. Every game we have rented has been a disappointment. The fact is as a man in his late twenties I guess the Wii just has nothing of interest for me anymore. Mario Galaxies 2 is the only title I'm even interested in this coming year so-far. The sad thing is that even my son has lost interest and he IS the target audience, well aside from the older female demographic. It seems at this point that the Wii is for people who just don't know any better. Nintendo better pull their collective heads out of their arses or they are looking at a repeat of the boom bust Atari days of the 80's. Ironically Nintendo were the ones who pulled the gaming industry out of the slump it was in back in the 80's and now they are following the same strategy that put the industry there in the first place. "
Nintendo is following the very same strategy they did with NES, not what Atari did. With the NES, Nintendo went away from the hardcore gamers (which at the time it was the PC crowd), and targeted at those who thought gaming was a dead art form. And they succeeded. Nintendo is doing that again today, and succeeded. You can't just change reality to your liking.
@ThePhenomenal1 said:" they're owned by viacom. they're in it for the money. "Actually they are owned by Fox (news corporation). "
What universe were you living in during the early 80s?
If you had a clue what you were talking about you would know that it was Atari along with Magnavox, Fairchild and the like who flooded the market with Shovel-ware becoming HUGELY popular as a family novelty toy (see where this is going). Atari in particular selling any competition clean out of the market. Atari flooded the market so much with repeated novelty titles and Shovel-ware that eventually the entire Games Industry collapsed as the home consoles novelty began to wear off and people simply stopped playing games as they had been fed poor quality title after poor quality title. Which led to the Atari Landfills full of copies of E.T as customers had just had enough of shit games with brand names.
Nintendo introduced the Nintendo Seal of Quality and invested heavily in research and development of fewer but higher quality titles a policy which they stuck with until the end of the N64 era. A policy which they have completely done away with for the Wii. The Nintendo Seal of Quality is now a joke with the same kinds of bullshit shovel-ware that infested the late 70s and early 80s being flooded back into the market sitting on Walmart / Asda shelves and attracting the uneducated buyer with words like "Party", "Brain Games", "Petz", " Carnival" etc etc. Its only going to take so many years of going home with garbage shovel-ware before even the dumbass Walmart mom is going to work out she is being taken for a ride.
PC gaming had nothing to do with the state of the Games industry during the 80s mostly being restricted to a few wealthy nerds until well into the 90s.
As for the Gaming being a dead art comment. Gaming barely Existed an art form in its infancy.It was a novelty toy for children, an image that has been hard to shake. Thanks largely to the efforts of Sony and much later Microsoft it has been shaken loose somewhat. However Nintendo has remained and always will do, a TOY company. Nintendo did not revive Games as a lost Art form in the 80s and certainly aren't helping the industry escape the stereotypes that have been layered upon it.
I grew up playing the NES and was a huge Fanboy of Nintendo all through the 80s and 90s. But crediting Nintendo with some kind of mystical status above reproach is idiotic. And putting the Wii in anything like proximity to the 360 and PS3 is absurd. The Wii is a novelty toy, a craze that has done extremely well for nintendo financially. Some great ideas have fed back into the Games industry from the Wii. None of this detracts from the fact that for myself and many others comparing many of the legions of waggle games out there to the games I have to play on the other consoles you might as well have handed me this:
When I asked for this:
Yes there are a few, and I stress FEW games that scratch that itch on the Wii. Its not enough. Unless Nintendo get a handle on the 3rd party waves of junk and start actually putting out some fucking games, I have to say they have lost my interest.
Edit: Oh and WTF does this sentence mean: " Why do games you have not played killed the console for you?"
" @Willy105 said:Ha ha ha ha!I'm sorry What? I mean seriously how can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you claim that PC Hardcore Gaming was killing the industry in the 80s and Nintendo flooded the market with family friendly shovel-ware to save the games industry?" @Manatassi said:
For the vast majority of the gaming audience, they haven't played any Metroid Prime games. Neither have I. Putting all three of them together with better controls is a fantastic idea. I haven't played NSMBWii yet, but it's kinda hilarious that's the only game you bought for it, and then complain you are bored with it. Why do games you have not played killed the console for you? Isn't that the point of the Wii, to try new experiences? Mario Galaxy 2 sounds cool, but I am more excited for other Wii games next year. Heck, before I buy any 2010 games, I am going to buy the ones I missed this year." The fact that Metroid Prime Trillogy keeps coming up at the top of the wii exclusives lists this year says allot as its a rehash of 3 previously released games, two of which are getting pretty old at this point. This year was a Joke for the Wii. I bought ONE game (NSMB Wii) this year and nothing else could really tempt me. The crummy old standard def graphics and novelty "family games" and shovel-ware have just killed the Wii for me. Even my 11 year old son is bored with the damn thing. Every game we have rented has been a disappointment. The fact is as a man in his late twenties I guess the Wii just has nothing of interest for me anymore. Mario Galaxies 2 is the only title I'm even interested in this coming year so-far. The sad thing is that even my son has lost interest and he IS the target audience, well aside from the older female demographic. It seems at this point that the Wii is for people who just don't know any better. Nintendo better pull their collective heads out of their arses or they are looking at a repeat of the boom bust Atari days of the 80's. Ironically Nintendo were the ones who pulled the gaming industry out of the slump it was in back in the 80's and now they are following the same strategy that put the industry there in the first place. "
Nintendo is following the very same strategy they did with NES, not what Atari did. With the NES, Nintendo went away from the hardcore gamers (which at the time it was the PC crowd), and targeted at those who thought gaming was a dead art form. And they succeeded. Nintendo is doing that again today, and succeeded. You can't just change reality to your liking.
@ThePhenomenal1 said:" they're owned by viacom. they're in it for the money. "Actually they are owned by Fox (news corporation). "
What universe were you living in during the early 80s?
If you had a clue what you were talking about you would know that it was Atari along with Magnavox, Fairchild and the like who flooded the market with Shovel-ware becoming HUGELY popular as a family novelty toy (see where this is going). Atari in particular selling any competition clean out of the market. Atari flooded the market so much with repeated novelty titles and Shovel-ware that eventually the entire Games Industry collapsed as the home consoles novelty began to wear off and people simply stopped playing games as they had been fed poor quality title after poor quality title. Which led to the Atari Landfills full of copies of E.T as customers had just had enough of shit games with brand names.
Nintendo introduced the Nintendo Seal of Quality and invested heavily in research and development of fewer but higher quality titles a policy which they stuck with until the end of the N64 era. A policy which they have completely done away with for the Wii. The Nintendo Seal of Quality is now a joke with the same kinds of bullshit shovel-ware that infested the late 70s and early 80s being flooded back into the market sitting on Walmart / Asda shelves and attracting the uneducated buyer with words like "Party", "Brain Games", "Petz", " Carnival" etc etc. Its only going to take so many years of going home with garbage shovel-ware before even the dumbass Walmart mom is going to work out she is being taken for a ride.
PC gaming had nothing to do with the state of the Games industry during the 80s mostly being restricted to a few wealthy nerds until well into the 90s.
As for the Gaming being a dead art comment. Gaming barely Existed an art form in its infancy.It was a novelty toy for children, an image that has been hard to shake. Thanks largely to the efforts of Sony and much later Microsoft it has been shaken loose somewhat. However Nintendo has remained and always will do, a TOY company. Nintendo did not revive Games as a lost Art form in the 80s and certainly aren't helping the industry escape the stereotypes that have been layered upon it.
I grew up playing the NES and was a huge Fanboy of Nintendo all through the 80s and 90s. But crediting Nintendo with some kind of mystical status above reproach is idiotic. And putting the Wii in anything like proximity to the 360 and PS3 is absurd. The Wii is a novelty toy, a craze that has done extremely well for nintendo financially. Some great ideas have fed back into the Games industry from the Wii. None of this detracts from the fact that for myself and many others comparing many of the legions of waggle games out there to the games I have to play on the other consoles you might as well have handed me this:
When I asked for this:
You just wrote all that for something I didn't even say! You are again changing reality to your liking.
I didn't say hardcore gaming was killing the industry. In fact, PC gaming was what survived of the old remnants of pre-Nintendo game industry. We ALL know how Atari flooded the market with shovelware. It's in the gaming textbooks and common knowledge. The fierce competition of the early game generations prompted the publishers to dish out dozen after dozen of titles just to show off they had the most games. The problem was, those games SUCKED.
The Seal of Quality was created to combat the game piracy that was common at the time. It may seem crazy now, but back then, unlicensed games were being sold on the same shelves as normal games! These games were hacks of other games, and had a problem of not working. The Nintendo Seal of Quality was a move to protect against those titles. A game with that seal was guaranteed to work on the system, and not be ripped off by a game that did not work.
As the problem started disappearing, they kept lowering dependence onthe seal, and progressively started using it less, such as shortening it to Official Nintendo Seal, and then to stop putting it huge on the front of the box and started putting it on the back, because they didn't need it anymore. It was all a marketing scheme. The game could still suck, but it was guaranteed to run.
Yes, gaming is an art form. I believe it is. Just because it has a stereotype, it doesn't make it any less art. The game industry has progressed a lot since it was a child's toy. The work of companies like Sony made gaming acceptable for teenagers, and Nintendo is now making it acceptable for adults. It's all slowly getting better. You don't have to keep hating it because of it.
Also, if you call the Wii a toy, you are calling the HD consoles baby toys. And what's worse, you a promoting another stereotype of "wealthy nerds". Which we should be starting to get rid off.
As for the last sentence, if you buy only one game for your 360 in a year, you are obviously going to start being bored by it.
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