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Originally Posted by CyCo PL
That's what worries me about the Wii. I don't think we're going to see much better than what's already out, just more of the same. Maybe sequels, maybe new franchises of minigame compilation discs, but the Wii doesn't really have the capacity to bring something truly new and mindblowing to the table. Once you've owned a Wii for six months, the control scheme isn't really that special. It comes down to the games' originality and innovation. The Wii got off to a great start, but how many variations of "point the controller at the screen, tilt it around, and shake the nunchuck" can you come up with? What I'm saying is, the console just feels like a Gamecube with a new controller. The graphics are nothing new, the overall look and feel of the games is nothing new in retrospect to the last generation of games. I'm not saying it's a bad console, but it's technically what the Gamecube should have been.
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I think the Wii has already brought something new and mind blowing to the table and I think the numbers more than prove it. I'm not a fanboy, but I will give credit where it's due and Nintendo more than deserves it for the Wii-mote. Where the other two were obsessively concerned with horsepower and how pretty they could make things--and don't get me wrong, that certainly has it's place--Nintendo was trying to shake things up a bit.
Sequels abound on the horizon, sure, but Nintendo has always been about established franchises. So, while we can surely lament the fact that Nintendo probably won't have a whole lot of great original content, it's really not fair to dismiss them entirely because of it.
As for graphics--and I've said this before--games that are pretty are nice, but if the gameplay sucks then who cares? If the Wii can deliver great gameplay, then I don't really care what it looks like, pretty is just icing on the cake. And who knows? The vast majority of gamers all shit on the Gamecube until RE4 came along....
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Wii owners who don't own any other next-gen console (like myself) will eventually see games come out on the PS3 and 360 that the Wii just won't be able to do. With the PS3's Blu-ray disc with a capacity of 50 gigs, and the 360's HD-DVD holding 30 gigs, they'll eventually be able to produce enormous, epic games that the Wii's 5 gig disc won't even be able to touch. Both of the big consoles are still technically in baby steps regarding the high capacity storage media, so it may be a little while before people notice how dated the Wii truly is, but I think games like GTA4 will show that the Wii is not really competition for the PS3 and 360. It's an accessory.
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Microsoft has already said that HD-DVD gaming on the 360 is out of the question. And if I recall correctly, Sony may be using Blu-Ray, they aren't using it to capacity. That is to say--and again, if I remember right--that Resistance is a 16 GB game on a 25 GB disc and a lot of that is redundancy and duplicate information to compensate for the slow read speeds.