Post by HNT on Sept 25, 2009 13:42:50 GMT -5
The Wii is somewhat promising, but it has not panned out to be as good as it could have been. I have several problems with it:
1) With the exception of some of the first party Nintendo games, it really doesn't have a lot of good games for it. Because of its hardware limitations, many of the most interesting games simply cannot be put on the Wii.
2) The motion controls, while they work well for several minigames, are a bit gimicky and do not really translate well for most more substantial games. Not to mention, most 3rd party developers don't know what to do with them.
3) It is too expensive. There was a time where it was clearly the cheapest of the three options. Now that the PS3 and 360 have been reduced in price (you can get the 360 Elite and PS3 for $299, and the cheapest 360 without a hard drive for $199) $250 is just too much to charge for a clearly outdated and underpowered system.
4) The Wii has virtually no online capabilites, which even if you don't play online, translates to more single player only games in general.
5) It is too kid oriented. Some of the best games out there are M rated games. Considering you are a horror fan, I can't see you being too averse to some blood in your games. The Wii has very few adult oriented games because its core market is children. I don't object to the idea of games without blood or violence at all, but some of the games that contain that material also happen to be the best designed games available right now.
In defense of the Wii, everything that I said comes from somebody who really enjoys videogames, and I am not the Wii's target audience. The whole focus of the Wii is to get people that don't generally play videogames to enjoy them. Since you fit that demographic, it may have plenty of things aimed to keep your interest.
All in all, it isn't a bad system and there are several games that I like on it. Once the next generation of consoles is released and I can pick up a used Wii online for next to nothing, I will do that and grab the games that I like for it. That is what I did with the Gamecube, and it was a smart move. If I had paid full price for it I'd have been pissed that there were only about a half dozen games for it that I wanted. Since I got it for $30 and about $5 per game, it was totally worth it. The same seems true of the Wii, at least for me
1) With the exception of some of the first party Nintendo games, it really doesn't have a lot of good games for it. Because of its hardware limitations, many of the most interesting games simply cannot be put on the Wii.
2) The motion controls, while they work well for several minigames, are a bit gimicky and do not really translate well for most more substantial games. Not to mention, most 3rd party developers don't know what to do with them.
3) It is too expensive. There was a time where it was clearly the cheapest of the three options. Now that the PS3 and 360 have been reduced in price (you can get the 360 Elite and PS3 for $299, and the cheapest 360 without a hard drive for $199) $250 is just too much to charge for a clearly outdated and underpowered system.
4) The Wii has virtually no online capabilites, which even if you don't play online, translates to more single player only games in general.
5) It is too kid oriented. Some of the best games out there are M rated games. Considering you are a horror fan, I can't see you being too averse to some blood in your games. The Wii has very few adult oriented games because its core market is children. I don't object to the idea of games without blood or violence at all, but some of the games that contain that material also happen to be the best designed games available right now.
In defense of the Wii, everything that I said comes from somebody who really enjoys videogames, and I am not the Wii's target audience. The whole focus of the Wii is to get people that don't generally play videogames to enjoy them. Since you fit that demographic, it may have plenty of things aimed to keep your interest.
All in all, it isn't a bad system and there are several games that I like on it. Once the next generation of consoles is released and I can pick up a used Wii online for next to nothing, I will do that and grab the games that I like for it. That is what I did with the Gamecube, and it was a smart move. If I had paid full price for it I'd have been pissed that there were only about a half dozen games for it that I wanted. Since I got it for $30 and about $5 per game, it was totally worth it. The same seems true of the Wii, at least for me