Wii-a-phobia continues to run rampant amongst the hardcore gaming community. There is a new hate-rant about the Wii written almost every day, and not just by random members of the Internet, but often by paid journalists as well. Despite all of this bad press, the Wii continues to be the darling of the mainstream gaming world (and cockroaches). More than a year after launch, the thing still sells out of stores faster that you can say "It's a fad."
So either way you look at it, the Wii console strikes a cord (ban pun intended). While a recent study cites "over 82% percent" of gamers polled believe the Wii hardware is "surprisingly stable," the gender identity of the console's controller is a different matter, as the first reports of the Wii Nunchuck's cord and analog stick turning pink are starting to surface on the Internets.
Did Nintendo rush these "confused" Nunchucks out with cheaper-that-usual components in order to meet the insane Christmas demand? Or is Nintendo actually run by Crab People, with these new "secret pink" nunchucks being just another attempt by the monsters to turn the world's male population homosexual, and stop all human reproduction?
[Via GoNintendo]
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7:55 AM on 12.30.2007
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This story, like so many other things in life, reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons. Here we go...
[it starts raining in the playground, and the kids’ gray uniforms are turning tie-dye]
Superintendent Chalmers: Skinner! Why aren’t these uniforms colorfast?!
Principal Skinner: I don’t understand it...I got them at the same place I buy Mother’s dresses, and — good Lord! Mother’s in the park! [runs off]
Chalmers: Now this, I gotta see. [follows Skinner]
Also, if you’re as much of a fan of The Simpsons and video games as I am, you’ll know that Superintendent Chalmers was once mistakenly referred to as “Super Nintendo Chalmers” by Ralph “I bent my Wookie” Wiggum.
But I'll get right on it.
Nope, you're right.
Thanks for the assist.
Pink thumb sticks... also interesting.
I'd say that Nintendo must've made them in a rush for the holiday demand, but I can't remember ever seeing a place sold out of them so that doesn't make sense.
Never trust Firefox's spell check system.
@Cunt:
LOL
The fact that people can become so emotional over nothing more than a freaking gaming console (the same goes for hi-def media) is proof-positive that the human gene pool is in desperate need of chlorine. Some people's priorities are SEVERELY out of whack. Getting all emotional over a gaming console is proof of that.
None of the three gaming consoles are going away any time soon. So, the fanboys need to just chill the hell out.
The only next gen system I have is the PS3. Why is that? Because I wanted some of the games on it (and I found a good deal on ebay). Folklore, Resistence, and a bunch of PSN download games I wanted swayed me to buy it. Specifically, Tekken DR pushed me over the edge. The other games just helped out.
The 360 is good, but the only game I feel I MUST play is Culdcept Saga (though I might be able to deal with Culdcept DS if it comes out soon enough). I'm not a HUGE FPS fan, either though if I was, this would be the system to buy.
The Wii is good as well (albeit I think it has a higher crap to not crap ratio than any other system in recent memory) but it's not my cup of tea for the most part. I'll probably play Mario Galaxy and Smash Brothers Brawl at my friend's place, but I don't see the need to own one myself at this point.
If you like the games, buy the system. Bottom line.
Oh, and that line (from a poster above) about the N64 being TWICE as powerful as the PS1 made me laugh. I remember back in the days when people argued that N64 was better because it was a 64 bit system (it wasn't) while PS1 was 32 bits. Misinformation never dies, no?
How many "bits" are we up to now I wonder?
pink nunchucks of death FTW
First, the Wii is already outpacing the PS2 to be the best selling console of all time. This includes both hardware sales and, at this point in time, the attach rate is also higher than the PS2's was.
Secondly, this happened without people needing to buy a new Wii a year later because the first one broke.
Thirdly, most of the Wii games are shit. Then again, look at the PS2's early library and you'll find a huge steaming load as well. You can counter and tell me all the great games PS2 has now, seven years after the fact, but practically every "great ps2 game" you mention will have been released at least two years into the system's life cycle.
It simply takes that long for a system to get good. Developers didn't count on the Wii doing so well. They had no resources devoted to it. Now, they're turning their effort to the Wii, since they can make several Wii games for the cost of one PS3 game. As such, the Wii will get more games, with more resources, hopefully resulting in better games.
Fourth, look at the DS. For its first year, most games were shit. Developers made mini game collections for the most part, or existing titles with tacked on DS controls, because they didn't know how to use the hardware. Now, developers realise they don't need to use all the DS's features in gimmicky ways to sell. It just needs to be good. The same will, hopefully, happen with the Wii, if Secret of Mana is correct and time does flow like a river and history does repeat.
*RJG: "Now, they're turning their effort to the Wii, since they can make several Wii games for the cost of one PS3 game. As such, the Wii will get more games, with more resources, hopefully resulting in better games."
Bull. Nintendo's trumpeting of low dev costs are what resulted in the multitude of crap in the first place. Nobody forces a developer to spend $30 million making a game, and so long as gimmicky crap sells, developers are certainly not going to spend any more on development than they have to. So long as Carnival Games tops the charts and Zak and Wiki bottoms out, then you can expect a ton more crap -- and it's entirely the Nintendo community's fault, because they actually believe this nonsense that all game companies desperately need to make budget games at full price to survive.
Competition drives up quality. Shallow fanboys justifying mediocrity and soccer moms buying every random piece of junk on the store shelf are what result in a deluge of crap.
I do not justify mediocrity, I loathe it. But as more developers release more titles on the Wii, the resulting glut will mean that developers will either have to a) make licensed titles to attract consumers or b) release cheap games so that they become impulse purchases or c) release good games that stand above the rest. The first two will always happen. The last one only really happens when there's enough consumer base.
Again, look at the PS2's library. With over one thousand games to choose from, I doubt anyone on here would bother with 9/10ths of them. The point is, those one out of ten good games that were released on the popular console turned out to be at least fun and at most awesome.
Saying that everything that will be released on the Wii will be shit because people will buy shit because it's a shitty system that's shit isn't a very good argument. Looking at past trends and seeing how install bases affect development resources and how those development resources affect quality is a good way of looking at what's to come.
Of course, the Wii could very well be a fad and in a year's time everyone will have "grown up" and bought a PS3 or some such, and Nintendo will go bankrupt and everyone will laugh. But in the same time frame, developers could actually release some titles worth a damn.
We'll see in a year.