seriously consle wars are so stupid. All of them are good, all of them have there pros and cons, 360 has gears and halo, ps3 has uncharted and GT5,wii has brawl and zelda…

Seriously, everyone is getting so fed up about this over nothing

Ps3 seemed bad to me at the beggining and since the price dropped it is good now.

wii may seem gimicky but if you buy the classic nintendo franchise games and forget the crap it is good

360 has no blu ray but it has gamerscore and achivements

THEY ARE ALL GOOD!!!! WHY CARE ABOUT CONSLE WARS!!!

Type O Negative’s My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend and Spoonman by Soundgarden would be cool also and why not “By the Grace of God” by The Hellacopters?

“Jesus Crysler Drives a Dodge” by The Screaming Blue Messiahs makes my list just because of the name…

(something somewhat off topic: could it be possible to refine the SG archives, to show only the headlines of the articles by month, instead of the headlines + first few paragraphs, it would make searching for an article a ton more easier…thanks)

A: new to gaming, and dont want to spend the hours needed to enter one of the advanced or competitive games like CoD4 or H3.

B: Can’t afford a PS3 or 360.

C: Drunk

The Wii does indeed emphasize funcationality over glitz, but what will happen when Nintendo lands a new gamer. Will the continue to play Warioware for days on end or will they want to play short bursts of more competitive games like the ones mentioned above.

The Wii is a “light” gaming machine. Targeted at a very specific audience. The games reflect that. The mentality “deal with want you got” as seen in the Mii section shouldnt be there in gaming. it should be “look at all I got” With the other big boys being only 100-150 over the Wii, I don’t know how long this Wii fad will keep pushing. And I’m curious as to how Nintendo will do next-gen.

But what Nintendo have done is the same as they did with the NES, take gaming into the public eye, more so than PlayStation ever did. I have people at work who have called me a geek for many years going to each others houses to play Wii Sports, and that in itself is a major achievement. They have offered to the consumer something entirely new and unique, which is more than can be said for Sony or Microsoft.

And as for there being no good games, they may not be as many, but it really is NOT as simple as porting over titles from the 360 and PS3. For the games to succeed, they need to be made from the ground up on Wii, and take full advantage of what the console has to offer. It’s a unique position in a console race where one console is actually offerring something completely unlike its competitors, and for developers to make money from the Wii, they actually need to develop FOR the Wii.

Great post by the way, good to see something a little different on the front page.

Nintendo will replace it, but I keep speed dialing Microsoft by mistake.. strangest thing.

Of course I didn’t realize it until I put $20 on the thing for WiiWare titles. After spending 20 minutes adding $20 to the thing that is.. Christ almight.. streamline Nintendo! Believe it or not, my credit card info doesn’t change as often as I’d like to purchase something from you.

It’s a fun console with some great games, but developers aren’t taking advantage of it. They haven’t made many good games for it, and the good 3rd party games like Zack and Wiki and Trauma Center are incredibly niche. They need to realize there are a lot of owners of the system and a very good amount of hardcore gamers. They complain they don’t sell as well as first-party games, well that may have something to do with the fact that so far they’re either niche or crap.

I mean, it does what it needs to do, be fun. It does have good games and i enjoy it. I enjoy it equally with my 360 and it gives me all the games the 360 cant have (ie mario, metroid, zelda, etc.)

Twilight Princess
Elebits
Super Paper Mario
Mario Strikers
Metroid Prime 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Batallion Wars
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Trauma Center: New Blood
Medal of Honor Heroes 2
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
No More Heroes
Brawl
Mario Kart Wii
Boom Blox

There are some upcoming games that look very good too, like Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Mushroom Men, and De Blob. Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw a new Star Fox, F-Zero, Pikmin, Kid Icarus, and Animal Crossing confirmed soon. There are some excellent looking, and innovative WiiWare titles coming out. World of Goo especially looks good.

The Wii’s only issues are really the atrocious online service (excluding the VC and Nintendo Channel services) and the lack of a hard drive.

The VC has a great library, it just needs bigger updates.