I'm waiting for Zhuping to say something about this post's title. Anyway I'm sure many of you were ecstatic when the Wii was going to be released way back in 2006 (Wow it's nearly 3 years already?). Anyway, I'm sure many of us, for the most part, were waiting for the release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and maybe a chance to play some of the other innovative games like Wii Sports.No one anticipated that the Wii would be such a weak system, hardware wise. (All of you Nintendo Fan boys out there; before you bash me, you should know that I am a huge Nintendo fan who only owns Nintendo Systems.) The system barely had a hard drive; 512 MB isn't nearly enough, I would have liked 2 GB or at least for the Wii to have made it to the 1 GB mark. We're not in the 1990s! Even today USB Flash Drives with at least 1 GB of memory are extremely cheap and becoming cheaper. But thank god Nintendo still allowed for external memory in the form of SD cards and even added compatibility in their latest Wii Update 4.0.
That's not the only problem that I have with the Wii, there is also the graphics. Originally I had no problem with the graphics, hoping that the innovative game play would be enough to make up for it completely. But it's almost 3 years into the Wii and I'm starting to believe this is another Gamecube at the end of it's life. The developers don't seem to be mastering the use of the Wii remote and many are not attempting to develop games that have realistic use of the controller. I own the best Wii games, and that is not saying much considering that there are only a few top Wii games above the 8.0 score rating on IGN.com. Besides those few top games such as Twilight Princess, Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Fit, Metroid Prime 3, Rock Band 2, etc. there is an overwhelming number of horrible titles for the Wii. Most of these horrible titles are targeted towards young children and are made with very low budgets. Many of these titles use graphics that are worse than the N64's and have generic titles like "Saturday Night Super Party Fun Elephant Bowling Extreme" (That's just an example, but I'm sure it's not too far off). Honestly, is this the kind of system that you wanted? I was looking at the games being released in January and February and most of those titles were horrible low budget games that achieved a 1.0-5.0 out of 10 on IGN. Seriously, where are all of those great publishers hiding? But these horrible games aren't really Nintendo's fault. The only possible explanation is that these publishers are taking advantage of the weak system specs, slapping on Wii remote functionality, and calling it a day.
The future of the Wii is inevitable. It will continue to be the #1 console, making the most money from games such as Wii Fit and all of those low budget games, unless you the gamers decide to stop buying those garbage titles, which may eventually happen in the long run. But I am starting to think that although there is still hope, Nintendo is taking too many shortcuts by recycling old games like Pikmin and Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and adding Wii remote functionality. Honestly, these were good games, but do we need to re-release them to prove that they are still fun with Wii Remote functionality? Nintendo should not concentrate on quick games and re-releases, it should put it's effort into making a new Pikmin and Donkey Kong title.
I think all we need is a new Zelda to make us forget of all of the horrible games that were released this year. I have some hope in Nintendo, and I'm looking forward to the new games that are in production such as The Conduit. Although the casual is doing very well right now, let's hope that the hardcore makes a comeback to the Wii. I know that we will never receive great titles like Resident Evil 5, Halo, or Soul Calibur 4 on the Wii but hopefully other developers, like the one that developed MadWorld, will begin to revive the hardcore on this small white console.
Stay tuned for my other Wii related rants to come!
This is true. But it's not nintendo fault it's the 3rd party companies. Over the 3 years, companies are afraid of what to expect with the wii. So they continue to make party games to be on the safe side. It's all about continue this money and squels. I hade sum developers, but the wii is powerful enough to render graphics like Mario galaxy Conduit uses bumpmaps and speculater highlights to detail it's polygons. Companies feel long productions are too risky for the wii. Well let's find out at E3 WOOT WOOT WOOT!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I read an IGN E3 prediction article. Hopefully Nintendo is going to pull through like they usually do and push out some great games. But you really can't deny that Nintendo didn't seem to be concentrating on the hardcore back in 2008. Maybe they've been hiding things though. Like you said, we will see in the coming month at E3 and if not, my rant is going to get a lot worse, ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteWow this just goes to show you how pissed Nabil is about his broken Wii. (Again Zhuping might joke about what I said too)
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