At least some people make some long replies. XD
Samurai X said:
There is a rumor floating around that says the Opera browser is free until June 2007 for the early Wii buyers. I don't know if that means free until June 2007 or before 2007.
Yea I also heard that somewhere. Not that it really bugs me, unless you GOT to have it to download games and for the message board and that sort of stuff.
Samurai X said:
Also think about it, I would rather spend $60 on 3 sets of controllers than $60 per game for the whole generation, I don't know about you guys but I buy way more than 3 games per generation. This is of course assuming that all games cost $50.
You got a great great great point there. And I never really thought of it that way. I got 24 PS2 games (I know I'll likely get more Wii games.... far more Wii games), if all of them games costed only $10 bucks more that would be me dishing out $240 more then what I had to pay. The 360 does have $60 games, that $10 dollar difference might not sound much (also tell that to the Wii people who are mad about the price of the Wiimote set). But over time it adds up, and if you start getting up there on number of games then that's a lot of money down the drain. I'll take the $60 Wiimote price of the $60 game price.
That is a great great great great great great great great point. If only all the people on GameSpot thought about that (threads after threads yapping about the controller price).
Samurai X said:
Also, I think I know why Nintendo chose not to launch all of their big guns with the Wii. Besides the fact that they don't want their titles stealing the thunder of other games I think they made a smart move. Think about it, Zelda to raise sales during the holidays, Mario for the summer game drought which will also sell some more Wii's and then SSBB for next Christmas, it's pretty smart when you think about it. Also, MP3 will also help whenever they decide to release it, I don't have a clue so I won't say anything.
I myself hope they don't put SSBB off till Christmas. I mean sure it'd jack the Wii sells up really really high around Christmas. But I'm still looking for a Q1 launch of SSBB. A year to battle you guys, a year to wait for SSBB, a year to see how it plays. Too long for my tastes.
TRIFORCE89 said:
The fact that the entire game world, and textures has been reversed does truly bother me though. ... All signs that will be in Hylian will be backwards!! O_O How am I supposed to read that? Link's a left. Always been a lefty. Should still be a lefty.
I can understand both sides of this. Link has been left handed since... well the start. He should still be a lefty. But on the other side most people are right handed, it just makes more sense that Link in TP is right handed. That's why I want TP to have left or right hand controls. You go into options and change the settings. If it had that then it'd be great. Someone like you Triffy would likely play left handed (I'm not sure if you're left or right, but even if you were right handed I'm sure you'd likely play with your left). But me since I'm right handed and I don't mind it I'd play with my right hand. Nintendo really should have an option for that (not only for all the LoZ fans out there, but also for all the left handed people out there).
Samurai X said:
Nobody can really know if it's a gimmick or not because you have to play it for a long time before you can call something a gimmick. I'm just saying that they're not the perfect controls that most people wanted, so if someone is mad because of that then they should get over it or buy the GC version, they shouldn't go out of their way to say it's a gimmick especially since they havn't tried it. I don't think it's a tack-on feature, I just feel that they wanted it to be simple. I guess what I'm trying to say is don't knock it until you try it. Also, less is more, think about it.
Note: The last game Nintendo published or made that people were calling a gimmick was Metroid Prime, now isn't that silly?
The way I look at it. It won't be a gimmick, it won't be some stupid thing that won't work out, it won't be some "Blah, that got old.", it won't be "Why should I play something like that?", it won't be "My arms hurt, this is stupid." (maybe a little at first, but I think we'll get used to it). Like you said up there, Nintendo is in it to make money. Sony and Microsoft can throw out billions of dollars into their systems and guess and see "This might work.". Microsoft is making a handheld. They didn't learn from the PSP, the DS blew it out of the water because Nintendo owns the handheld market. But Microsoft is going to get in there and make a handheld of their own. They know there isn't a snow flakes chance in hell that their handheld will come out on top. But they're doing it anyway. Nintendo doesn't have that sort of money to throw away, they don't have the sort of money to guess on everything. I'm pretty sure they know your arms won't hurt when playing the Wii, I'm pretty sure no one will say "Blah, that got old.", and so on. I don't think they would try what they're trying unless they know it'll work. Sure they want to change the way of gaming, but at the same time they don't want to go under. They wouldn't have made the Wii the way it is if it would have turned out stupid and costed them big time. They tested it out, they thought about it, they worked on it and so on. And it paid off, E3 came around, everyone loved it (GS had a poll, who won E3, almost 50% said Ninendo), any poll on GS that has the Wii in it (doesn't matter if it's a PS3 poll or not) takes the lead. The Wii is getting so much great feedback that it's crazy, really really crazy. On GS' forums, the PS3 forum had 10-15K post lead. Then the Wii events came around. Within 2 days it passed the PS3 forum, now it has a 3K post lead. In 2 days it came up with 15K posts. That's just how much people want the Wii (sure a lot of it was people going "OMG the price" but beind that you had ones that understood it).
I know I'm ranting. But, I have faith in Nitnendo that the Wii won't turn out crap. The ones that's making the games are falling all overthemself when it comes to the Wii. Most feedback from Wii games is positive feedback. And then you got all the people out there that wants the Wii. I don't think it'll fail, not unless Nintendo pulls something really really really stupid.
In other news, Robo has a Black DSLite. So, lets all track him down and the first to find him is the first to get his DSLite. XD
