Backhanded compliments are condescending. This isn't new nintendo, this is 2d mario and the nintendo from decades ago.
Hardcore is a buzzword for sex and violence to cover up the fact that gaming is the nerdiest sh!t on the planet. No one has explained to me how a game as easy as GTA (unlimited lives) is hardcore. I have shmups for wii that would make you cry they're so hard.
I own an xbox for geometry wars and irkuga. You play irkuga (xba) and you tell me if any...
"3. Anyone doing this on the PS3 section's gamer zone will be banned before they can refresh the page. Which brings me to my question: Who's modding the Wii section, STEVIE F*CKIN WONDER!? 7_7"
What if we posted blogs just to coordinate us leaving to a better forum as articles? Every time the wii population gets bigger here we can post again. It works for the jews.
You know odds are 20:1 viral marketing, gullible morons, and incompetent mods are ruining t...
2d mario isn't hardcore? Did you start gaming on ps1?
They have a wii punchout. Do you know how hard that game is?
Oh yeah, hardcore means sociopathic murder and sex. They typically focus on a bunch of roided out and sweaty men trapped in a war zone with no women in sight. From the look of most hardcore games I think you guys like big muscles more than women.
Wii is actually the only system that really doesn't blow up on you. RROD/YLOD FTW
"but praising the wii controls is just hilarious. I tried CoD (the WW2 one) on the Wii and it was a gimmick, the same goes for Metroid."
Then you suck at aiming them. I played FPS on pc since doom II and wiimote is almost as good. You have no hand-eye coordination but for those of us who do you sound like a moron. Just because you suck at video games doesn't mean we do.
"to each his own"
Then quit writing this trash in our section. Metroid is a gamecube game but GTA isn't a ps2 game with updated graphics or halo isn't an xbox game with better lighting huh?
"Oh and Metroid, yeah nice Gamecube game with gimmick controls"
Dual analog is trash for aiming and that's why "core" gamers need auto and sticky aiming. Real hardcore, keep playing on ezmode guys.
And young women. Believe it or not they play the wii now. I know, it's hard to believe. Maybe if you talk to more of them you'll understand.
How could someone disagree with this? Half were facts and the other parts were contradictory statements about <720p being garbage and yet wanting a dvd player when DVD format can't go above 480p. Even better, the dvd player is a wii that costs 10x more than a standalone dvd player and yet he would buy a wii for this.
"It's how internet publications work - information in brevity. You know as well as I do that you can't hold peoples attention for much longer than that."
Not with total flamebait at least. Top 11 gaming fails - calculated for neutral response.
"dvd playback has already been proven but nintendo has it locked out, why I don't know"
The license to play DVDs (MPEG2 data format) costs about 10 dollars a wii and they wanted it priced cheap.
Gamefly charts are horrible. In most cases these actually represent lost sales since they're rentals (unless they're trying then buying).
There's no point in considering them. Even if you ignore my last point Mario 5 is number 8 overall. That says volumes about the type of gamers who use gamefly. 10 million people own Mario 5 and so have no reason to use it! This is not a representative sample of all console owners, even for xbox or ps3!
Exactly! A browser...well, gotta pay for programmers. DVD, divx, CD or mp3 playback...gotta pay for programmers and the license for each format. Large hard drive...gotta pay for that and to assemble it. Navigation menu with extensive features and customizable online....more programmers. HD, well now we need better hardware, more expensive dev kits, more expensive cables...
If the wii had one of these things they'd still call it inferior because the other systems have more. ...
That still speaks to the xbox market.
Half the people on here evil are complete morons, teenagers or preteens, or viral marketers. I honestly try and figure out the percentage that makes up the last group.
You are illegally decoding the movies. That license costs money. This is why they didn't release or update the wii for it. Everyone who can afford a wii for 200+ dollars can buy a 20 dollar DVD player and is overwhelmingly likely to own one.
Clearly I'm wrong. Nintendo is just being lazy. Patents don't exist for data encoding and I'm just a fanboy.
We need more articles like this. However, no one should ever ask why the ps3 goes on the internet but won't let you use the browser to watch hulu. It only does everything (that doesn't threaten traditional multimedia distribution by letting you watch TV whenever you like).
Nintendo should lose money or charge the customer for DVD playback. PS3 should blo...
It's illegal as you don't own a license to play the DVDs so I'd wager yeah, it does void the warranty.
Some people question whether constantly loading from disk may cause the system to fail earlier as it wasn't designed for it.
Also, if your system shuts down while installing homebrew you're screwed (rare). Or if you don't know what you're doing (relatively more common). Or if you play a game from another region without updating your firmware first.
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Netflix had an exclusive contract with xbox at the beginning and ps3 just got netflix a couple months ago, showing nintendo just took longer in discussions. They have a deal with the BBC from a while back to put their player on wii so this isn't new or catch up to them. In japan you can order food on the wii.
"Another thing, weren't they a "games are the most important things" kind of company?"
Which is why this is optional and doesn't increase ...
"While Wii games are all DVD format and movie playback is only limited by software, it's baffling why Nintendo has chosen to not add this feature to their system."
It costs money to buy the license to play the video encoding (MPEG2) for DVD movies. It would have raised the price of the system. Netflix is optional for payment.
The entire idea behind the wii was making it cheaper and more accessible. This was one way of doing it. They realized everyone wh...
I hope to god it happens and the following period of weak investment prompt a return to titles focused on gameplay, particularly 2d platformers and shumps. I want arcade games again.
These people think they can handle a storyline themselves with no work at all so they waste time on graphics and features. But then the product they produce is built entirely around a cinematic model where the story is elevated as the purpose of the game! There's a reason Fallout 1 and 2 had much ...