[quote name='Strell']Then what in the hell does this even matter around here? If all you're going to do is shit all over the people buying stuff at full price, why bring it up in the one single place where that isn't happening?
And then you turn around and start quoting magical CAG prices on 360/PS3 controllers? I'm looking for 360 controllers, and the best prices I see in stores are MAYBE $30, and that's being generous. Even online retailers hardly get to that price point. Show me some links for a $20 360 controller. I could use one that cheap.
You're just twisting a poor argument around at this point. People on here have sold Wiimote+Chuk combos for $30, and if you traded in Fairytale Fights from Best Buy into Gamestop this week, you could get WM+ for free.
Argument is weak, man. Even by weakness standards.[/QUOTE]
I bring it up here, because when we talk about the Wii, we're not just talking about how it relates to CAGs, we're talking about everybody. Basically, what I'm saying is, people aren't going to want to pay insane prices for accessories next generation. Nobody is going to want to dump another $200 on controllers, then another another $100 on a Wii Fitness board or whatever, etc. And I shouldn't say everybody, because what I really mean is most of the people who bought the Wii, who aren't gamers. Gamers are used to forking out hundreds of dollars every 5 years, but the extremely large audience that bought into the Wii isn't.
And a few weeks ago, I saw an entire display at Wal-Mart full of 360 Wireless Controllers for $19.99. I'm basing the price on that, as I have 6 360 controllers, and haven't bought one since last summer. And you can find SIXAXIS controllers for $30. (Used ones at least.) Dualshock 3s are the expensive ones now.
[quote name='Strell']This just keeps getting better.
I'm not comparing titles, nor number of quality titles, nor
anything. Primarily because at the end of the day, how in the
can you win that argument? You know what I want to play? A Boy and his Blob.
And Modern Warfare 2. Know why? Because they are quality games. It ends there for me, because examining it further is an exercise in madness. One that gamers are so piss poor at recognizing, because they continue to do it like it's golden word.
And if you want to pull this kind of personal anecdote kind of crap, what's to stop someone from being uninterested in the majority of HD titles? I personally don't like them. There's
plenty of shitty games with great graphics. Are you going to start calling my opinion nuts because I don't want to play
another rehashed Western shooter, boring RPG, or me-too sandbox game?[/QUOTE]
No, you can't win this argument. And I know where you're coming from. I'm known for liking to play games that no one else likes to play. It's all about personal preference. But you can't argue with sales. The 360 and PS3 are selling more games than the Wii. (And no, I don't have an sales numbers on hand to back this up, but it's pretty easy to tell which is selling more games. At least it is for me.)
And no, I won't call you nuts because of your opinion, but I will say that it doesn't agree with the majority. I
ing hate Final Fantasy, but that doesn't mean millions of other people don't want 15 more installments of the game.
[quote name='Strell']Piling on the whole "there is shovelware" thing just ices the cake. We've been down this road a billion damn times. And again, it's funny you'd bring this up in a space where we, as generally enlightened gamers, are smart enough to avoid the bullshit. No one around here wants My First Aquariumz - we'd rather play the better stuff. Telling us "bullshit exists" and then acting like we're in
favor of it is stupid.[/QUOTE]
I never said you were in favor of it. I just said that there's a lot of shovelware out there. And right now, it makes up a majority of Wii games.
[quote name='Strell']Why is it that people, upon saying this, are practically saying "All the good games on all previous, less-powerful systems no longer apply," but
never realize it?
You don't need more power to make a good game. You need
a good game. I have a great deal of fun on legacy systems, portables,
paper, and with cards.
It's like saying a painting is better because it uses more colors, and was painted with a bigger brush than the other guy's.[/QUOTE]
Obviously nobody is saying that old games suck. But if you want to compete in today's gaming market, you have to keep up with today's technology. Put it this way, as many good games as the SNES had, do you think it could keep up with the Wii, PS3 or 360? What about the PS1? Had more great games than you could possibly count, but it couldn't keep up with the consoles today.
[quote name='Strell']Anecdotal evidence. Look it up. You're bringing pies to a gunfight. [/QUOTE]
You're right, there's no possible evidence I could have to back that up. But all I'm saying is that, in my experience, almost everybody I know gets bored of their Wii after a few months. And that doesn't just include games. I know people who range from 6 to 78 who own a Wii. But that's just my experience. YMMV.
[quote name='Strell']You're really good at this changing your argument midway stuff. Which makes me wonder why I'm even bothering to mess around when I know I'm dealing with someone so intent of hitting below the belt.[/QUOTE]
You can 'get eaten' without failing. The Gamecube and Xbox didn't fail, but only sold about 1/7 of what the PS2 sold, and I'd consider that being 'eaten'.
And no, dallow. Anamorphic widescreen is the process of displaying widescreen video on a non-widescreen TV. Displaying 4:3 content on a 16:9 TV is just called stretching.
Besides, on SDTVs, pixels aren't even square to begin with, they're rectangular. They're only square on HDTVs. So it would just paste rectangular pixels instead of square ones, it would stretch the one pixel into two pixels, to make it seem rectangular.
