The Conduit will not convince Halo players to buy a Wii if they haven't got on already. Halo players like Halo, hence why they have a 360. A generic FPS will do little to make them garner interest in another console. WiiMotionPlus isn't a system seller either, regardless of whether or not it's bundled with Tiger Woods. This proves that "Hamburger Reg" is now delusional.

Either delusional or doing some PR.

>we win over the Halo audience with something like The Conduit

I have a problem with this statement. Not least is it a load of bollocks, but isn't The Conduit third-party, and Halo MS-GameStudios?

"We have near-term, mid-term and long-term opportunities," he claims. "The near-term opportunity is the consumer who owns a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 and has been bad-mouthing Wii to their friends. We can annoy that consumer even more with talking idot crap like this."

I love that he points out the Wii's only online FPS as a reason 360 owners will get a Wii.

Does he not realize that both the PS3 and 360 have dozens of quality online FPS games?

Nope even when I owned a wii I didn't buy the extra silly peripherals.

Oh and Modern warfare 2> Anything that is "hardcore" on the wii.

You'll never catch me, Reggie! Wheeehehehehehe--ooh, ice cream!

@sickNasty
Don't forget RPGs and fighters that aren't forced to hold back because of the controller.

I actually fired up my Wii for the first time in months (the DS one my heart and all my time) in order to play Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, and lord almighty, I'm certainly glad I did. That game is ZOMG RETROMAZING!

The Conduit is the next Halo killer, there you have it. Confirmed by Reggie. What a smug bastard. I have no interest in the wii, Im sorry that console is not for me. 3 of my close friends have a wii and that still will not persuade me to buying one. If anything I would buy a 360.


PS3 KICKS ASS!

The only thing that got me to dig out the wii after a whole year of collecting dust in the basement was Muramasa and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. They should have promoted those games during their press conference.

Exactamundo, what is Nintendo's plan to draw in the hardcore gamers who already have a Wii and have not purchased a game in two years?

Nintendo, leave the hardcore gamers alone. You can not get to us, we are too powerful.

Core gamers will just say it's 'gay' or 'more of the same' (because that new Halo looks like a totally original experience, right?), but I'm pretty impressed with what Nintendo's got coming up. New 2d Mario, Galaxy 2, and Metroid Other M alone are enough to almost double my Wii collection. And Punch-Out means my Wii's been busy lately.

"Not if they think it looks a bit rubbish. "

Looks are not everything Jim, Little King´s story is amongst the best games i ever played and it does not look good as a ps360 game.

Reggie is a great businessman. The problem is that he doesn't understand the gamers that play things like COD4, Bioshock, etc. I was watching Reggie talk about how Nintendo will capture the hardcore gamer with The Conduit and Deep Space: Extraction, and I thought to myself that Reggie either:

A) Doesn't understand core gamers

...or...

B) Does understand core gamers and knows that they won't be satisfied with those games, but still has to put on the company face and act like they will be satisfied.

There's too many things wrong with what he said. Hell is coming.

Let me ask a question:

Aside from the very very purdy graphics, what do the 360 or PS3 offer in the way of games that hasn't already been done on the previous consoles? I'm not saying that the newer games for those systems are bad. There are quite a few that are good, but do any of them really do anything differently compared to their older brethren? When I see most FPS games on the 360 or PS3, I think, "Golly, those graphics sure look pretty good, but is that it?"

This is what pisses me off about the 360 and the PS3: Beyond making everything look better, it's still all the same! In fact, the only reason I considered getting a 360 recently was because of Red Faction Guerrilla, and that's because I can actually interact with the environment! That's what I've been wanting to see in games with their higher processing power: More freedom for the player to interact with the environment and do things you couldn't do in the older consoles.

But I hardly see any of that on the PS3 or the 360. And that's why I'm really excited for the new Silent Hill, where the game is designed around letting the player interact with the game's world in ways that's not possible on the the other consoles. I'm not defending Nintendo, far from it. They have done things to piss me off, but on the other hand, the other two haven't done much to wow me with their graphical horsepower, especially when you don't do anything with it!

Anyways, what this boils down to is thus: I got a Wii, I got plenty of good games for the system. I got games that take advantage of the controls, and more traditional games that work just fine with the Wii Controls. So why buy a more expensive console with more expensive games, when I can get the same experience on a cheaper console, with cheaper games. If the only difference in the gameplay experience is graphics, then that's something I'll gladly sacrifice as long as I'm still having fun. Which is probably why my PSP and DS collection is extremely large right now.

why is it that they release 1 or 2 games of a particular genre then talk about how they are capturing that type of gamer. Unless the conduit is 1000 hours, that's a very ignorant statement to make.

"...The near-term opportunity is the consumer who owns a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 and has been bad-mouthing Wii to their friends. We can reach that consumer with games like The Conduit or Tiger Woods with Wii Motion Plus."

"Once those people buy into Wii, they'll go buy Mario Kart or Wii Fit Plus."

Tiger Woods? Wii Fit Plus?, i'd sure love to know what old Reg smokes to come up with this level of insanity in his quotes. I think Nintendo has wooed the shot term (read: Casuals) long enough, problem is they won't stop until they actually start losing money with them, but by that moment, when they turn to their core audience for support they will already have been absorbed by either MS or Sony (which might have happened already). It's gonna be a sad, sad end for Nintendo, but certainly not an undeserved one.

there are many things stinking up nintendo, but reggie is a big flaming pile of corpse puke. i try not to yell at my wii too much, i can't blame it for having bat shit insane cash whores for creators.

@edgydude

too right, just what I was thinking. I know that I for one have let my wii gather dust in favour of my 360, and I even camped out for the damn waggle box. really though it's not surprising, as nintendo has been slowly circling the drain since gamecube, despite what their bankbooks say today.

I think the Grinder is going to be a better reason to get a Wii than the Conduit, personally.

Funny how quickly Nintendo became the Devil again once they were no longer the scrappy underdog fighting out from under Sony and MS domination...

Reggie isn't gonna capture anyone with those games. But Wii FPS controls > Dual analog anyday.

@Vanor: Granted, it's true, besides pretty as hell graphics nothing is truly different. But here's a good question too, what have third parties done for the Wii lately that's good? i'll quote the lovely Colette Bennett here when she said even though the Wii doesn't have half the horsepower, that that is still no excuse to make ugly games. FYI i also own a Wii, and besides first party games, most else somehow ends below par (with notable exceptions), and i'm not talking graphics here, let's break things into points:

1)Horrible graphics (even for last gen level): Again, the main offenders are games like DR:CTYD from Capcom, i still can't believe they used the same engine as RE4:WE, i just can't, and if they did, they just did a crappy use of it, Smash Bros Brawl is a perfect example of awesome graphics that aren't HD.

2)Go core or go casual, but not both unless you do it right: I'll unleash the ire of many here, but an example of this is Madworld, yes, Madworld, how come? Madworld was marketed as a hardcore brawler for the Wii complete with gushing blood and limbs a-flying, so far so good, but if that is the case, then why the hell it takes a group of enemies around 30 secs to decide to launch a punch against you?, if you want to make casuals feel as cool as regular gamers, make a casual difficulty level and let people choose, don't force the rest of us to go through the whole damn game to actually unlock the real 'normal' difficulty level (which seems is now known as 'Hard' difficulty).

3) Stop resurrecting old IPs, resurrect GOOD old IPs or at the very least fix the original problems they had, example given: You know, i'd give my left nut to see MGS3 on the Wii, there are plenty of good IPs that can be properly brought to the Wii, so please stop bringing crap. As a counter example of this point i'll mention Rygar, not even the tiny details such as the arm sticking through the golden disc armor were fixed, just tacked some waggle and release, which brings me to my next point.

4)Cut the damn waggle over use: If anyone played RE4 Wii they'll know that not only it feels just as good as the original on GC or PS2, it actually feels even better on the Wii, why? because motion controls actually are properly used, not just tacked on as gimmicks or so poorly and unprecisely implemented that they are hindrances instead.

5)Stop releasing half-baked bug-filled games: Deadly Creatures and Tomb Raider Underworld are perfect examples here, anyone that played DC will attest to the level of bugs that happen when horned lizards appear, from epileptic seizures from said lizards to bugs so bad that you have to restart the whole chapter to fix it (not even loading a save will work, you have to restart the chapter). TR is even worse as the Wii version had a notorious bug on the Thailand ruins level where a missing lever prevented you from going further. I'll admit this is not limited to the Wii, but when you are taking risks on a console, it improves the odds for you not to release defective games.

I'm having some hopes with coming releases, but i'm also considering getting a 360, i'm just to damn tired of waiting for a decent third party release, next gen, i'm waiting at least a year before choosing a console, if it's certainly true that pretty graphics don't make up for gameplay, it's also true that bad graphics with crappy gameplay is much worse.

@ Vanor everyone else has addressed the main points in your post but I'm amazed no one has picked up on this one:

'I got a Wii, I got plenty of good games for the system. I got games that take advantage of the controls, and more traditional games that work just fine with the Wii Controls. So why buy a more expensive console with more expensive games, when I can get the same experience on a cheaper console, with cheaper games.'

Err, the 360 is cheaper than the Wii and I don't know what country you live in but the games cost the same. True the PS3 is more expensive but it can also do a lot more. Also your points about pushing games with motion control is being addressed if you paid ANY attention to E3. So not only will the PS3 and 360 have more horsepower they'll have more accurate motion control too.

Don't get me wrong I like my Wii, if only for games like No More Heroes, Zelfa, Super Mario Galaxy and Trauma Centre but many of your points smack of fanboyism. Why can't the love be spread between all the consoles?