The WII shortage fiasco

[Soukyan]

I was pointing out that that is how Nintendo is using it.

How do you know this?

Speculation on both sides here are likely wrong to a degree.

I intuit it. Yes, speculation to be sure, but I see no reason for Nintendo to stick with the Wii hardware as is for the next 7 years. That's just bad business unless they have some other super-powered console up their sleeves that they intend to target another audience with. Just my thoughts, but I really think that the Wii name will stick around and the hardware will get revisions, i.e. Wii Deux, Wii Thrii, etc.

[CharlieMopps]

Wow! This threads still going? I gave up trying to get a WII a while ago... Got my wife an exercycle instead. I was in Gamestop on friday and BAM! they had a WII... but I was so pissed about the whole driving around looking thing... I just laughed. She's almost done with NWN2 so I picked up the expansion instead. I figure if I can somehow get the mouse and keyboard up on the handlebars of the Exercycle it will be nearly the same damn thing.

[HaemishM]

I think Schild has the least hate out of most people in these disputes. At least the dude actually plays most of the games on these platforms,

Except he's proud of not having turned his Wii on in months. Which means he DOESN'T PLAY ANY WII GAMES, yet still bags on them anyway. He hasn't even played Metroid for fuck's sake, which is an epic fail. It's fine if you hate the system for what it is, but stop talking shit about it when you refuse to even play the best games on the system.

What you said about good games being everywhere though is more of what I'd like to see. I don't know why any self respecting gamer would hate any of these new platforms really. There's at least some value in all of them for everyone, and if you've got nothing but bullshit fanboi reasons to trash one of them, you're fucking yourself in the end. If you even like games, that is.

The only reason I've hated on any of the new platforms is because they were and are too goddamn expensive for the things they offer. I want the PS3 to fail because they had the arrogance to tell me (and other gamers) that if I was a serious gamer, I'd spend $600 on a Blu-Ray player that plays 5 games, 4 of which I gave no shits about. I had the same complaints about the 360 when it came out, because I think $400 for a console is too much, especially when it bricks as much as the 360 has. The only reason I want a 360 is because there are now TONS of good games on the system. The PS3... not so much. There still aren't even 100 games on the system, AND they've removed backwards compatibility to make the price more palatable. That makes the price more reasonable, but it diminishes the value even more.

I hate arrogance from companies like Sony and Microsoft, especially when it translates into overpriced shit. It's the same arrogance that makes EA Sports charge $50/$60 for a new version of Madden that is last year's engine with this year's roster. Unfortunately, it's the same arrogance that has relegated the Wii's online multiplay to friend's code bullshit and some barely there functionality.