[quote name='Strell']I brought it up because it's a weak point you're foisting on the conversation, and it always has been.
If someone has the time to finish a supposed 60 hour game in a week, they need something else to
do.
If I could manage that, I wouldn't have the backlog I have now, which includes great games for all sorts of systems. And this is why it is not that valid to sit there and proclaim "the drought = dead" for a system.
Now if someone ONLY has one system, then we're talking a little more on the level here. But I imagine anyone at CAG probably has more than one system at home, and if they are paying attention at all, they've got more than a few games in shrink wrap just begging to be played.
If you're going to play this card, what stops someone from saying "Well Gears of War can only be beaten in 8 hours?" Not a whole lot, except that some people keep playing it through a few times because it's still a fun game, and there's nothing wrong with playing it a second or third time through. I realize there's multiplayer but it doesn't seem to have the same draw that some other online games have, since everyone will inevitably go back to playing Halo 2.
Look, if you can manage an Xbox for 100, then it is obviously the better deal. But that's assuming you get it, which is like saying "If I found 600 dollars on the ground, would it be worth it to get a PS3, or should I just buy a 360 and some games?"
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But the thing is, I'm NOT looking at this from a CAG point of view... I'm looking at this in the light Nintendo put it in. They want people who have never gamed to buy their console, they want people who aren't hardcore gamers at all (and probably don't own other systems) and probably don't have a backlog to buy their system.
The mom's and the dad's and the friends who haven't gamed in years who are buying this system who only have the one release date list to look through. Then you get into "Those people won't plow through Zelda at all" but I even wonder if those people will buy Zelda? They seem more the Wii Sports / Excitetruck crowd, maybe Monkey Ball.
I mean, I don't know the OP's situation, but many many gamers don't have a backlog at all. I know alot of people who game and they buy one game at a time, beat it, and move to the next... a backlog dosen't exist for the majority of buyers.
We've gone waaaaaaay off the course of things
I say we should just bury the hatchet now before some of the more unruly CAG's break up our friendly discussion. Besides, don't you have a Wii to play with