" I'm Superman! King fucking Kong! I can pick you up and throw you a million miles. I'm number one. Number fucking one."

Another day, another video game affiliated douchebag trashing the Wii. Dishing out the usual tired cliches that most people throw out to put Nintendo's system down. "It's for old people and little kids!", "The graphics sukz!", "The controls are shit!". Gamers have been slinging that retarded slop around for awhile... I just didn't expect people in the industry to publicly echo the same ignorant drivel.

Mr.Wanat, who if you read Colette's piece on the front page, is working on Wanted: Weapons of Fate. A game who's demo ironically left me feeling with the same sentiments of how the graphics suck and the controls are shit. Weird how that works. The most disheartening quote uttered by him though was how he compares the Wii to the "f*cking Sega Genesis" Not because of the actual quote mind you but because most Dtoiders thought it was an insult to the Genesis. An insult to the Genesis? Thinking that's an insult to the Genesis is an insult to the Wii. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the Wii blowing away the competition? Isn't it a huge runaway success for Nintendo?

Yet here comes Peter, Paul and Mary telling us how the Wii sucks. The Wii sucks? No YOU suck. Let's run down a few things about the Wii to refresh gamers memory of it. The Wii has the most exclusives of all the consoles...combined. The Wii's Virtual Console is a godsend for retro and regular gamers alike. The Wii unlike the PS3 and 360 has always had 100% compatibility with its prior console, the Gamecube, which was a kick ass system in its own right with more than few games that were just plain awesome. It's funny how people cry out "The PS3 doesn't have backward compatibility" or "I can't play my Xbox game on the 360" and Nintendo's Wii had that from day one.

The Wii was made as a game console. Not a multi-media set up, no DVDs or Blu-ray can be played on them. You know what can? Games. Go watch your Next Flicks movies on your 360. I like using my console to actually play games. The Wii is the cheapest of all the consoles. In an age where our economy is flip flopping all over the place that is more than appealing. Let's not forget that their games are cheaper as well.

The whining of Nintendo leaving their hardcore fans in the dust is just bullshit. Their 1st party output is like a machine compared to their competition. This misconception that the Wii is garbage is a crock. What is amusing to me is how people always throw the line third party games don't flourish on the system. That's not the Wii's fault. That's your fault. The people who own Wiis and complain yet don't buy the fantastic games like Zack & Wiki. They complain but when a solid third party game enters the horizon they don't buy it. Too busy playing the latest derivative shooter on their other consoles.

OMG old people and and kids like the system!! It's pushing the casual game agenda into the forefront and assaulting my hardcore video gaming tendencies! Grow up. Your "hardcore games" aren't going anywhere. And as for these kids and old people gravitating to the system? Good. The more that people get into gaming, the better.

If third party developers just make cheap waggle games for the masses and they eat it up, that's also not the Wii's fault. That's a sound business strategy by them. But for these others complaining about the Wii's deficiencies as a deterrent for creating great quality games on it sounds just plain retarded. Fanboyish almost. Get off your asses and cater to a systems strengths instead of whining and complaining about why it's not like the others.

Before I wrap up let me revisit that one comment that spurred this rant from me:

compares the Wii to the "f*cking Sega Genesis" (which is an insult to the Genesis if you ask me).

I love you Collette but this once I have to disagree with you. Comparing the Wii to the Genesis by that dolt shouldn't be taken as an insult to the Genesis. It should be taken as a compliment. When the others dethrone the Wii as number one then we'll talk of it as an insult.

The Wii sucks? No nonbelievers... YOU suck.