Is the Wii Failing?

[otawara]

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/is-the-wii-failing-to-meet-its-potential-/1281752

In my opinion, its not. It's just that the Wii is a lot more mini game friendly and stupid motion controlled game friendly than the PS3 or 360.

Video Game journalism is highly prejudiced. Even people who are 'proffesionals' are mostly geared towards more violent games or RPGs, which the Wii lacks A LOT in.  

[Sharkbutt The Orgiastic]

No, it's not. The Wii is fine. End of discussion.  

[Man On The Hill]

A lot of people complain about the wii graphics and music. I don't mind them at all.  

[wariodude128]

If the Wii is failing, then the Playstation 3 is drowning in a pool of its own arrogance and unsold systems. If being family friendly is failing, then the Wii is failing so badly that it's selling more systems than the XBox360 and Playstation 3 combined. If only Nintendo would stick with its hard core base of fans and not try to get people who don't play games to play. Then they would not be failing. The fan base won't get any bigger, but at least they will have a healthy cult following and non gamers will never know the enjoyment of playing a real videogame.

I'm done with my sarcastic rant now. The only part that wasn't sarcastic was the PS3 drowning bit. If you agree with what I sarcastically said, please quote.  

[teh emoogle boy]

It's the system that some people want to see fail.  

[Caramel Kisses]

It's not the Wii itself, but the games the article is talking about.
While we Nintendo lovers can spot gems such as No More Heroes and our Nintendo favorites,
the so-called core fans of Microsoft and Sony only see whats advertised,
the kiddie tie-ins, and rubbish like Imagine: Party Babyz and Petz Crazy Monkeyz.

Frankly, crap like that peeves me too.
But it ropes in the small children, I suppose.
Hey, it's business.
*shrug*  

[Meta_Fish]

I feel that the games aren't quit living up to what they really could be; the ideas we all had when we first really thought about motion sensitivity, but it's far from failing.  

[KeyBlader1]

No way the Wii is failing. Xbox is having to copy the Mii idea just to keep up with nintendo, so how is that failing?  

[Super Cheesio]

The Wii is selling moar than the PS2. 'Nuff said.  

[Owwin]

The wii, isn't failing, but the article is asking if it is failing to live up to it's potential. I think it is. Like the article says. You have to shovel through a lot of shovelware to get to the prizes. Nintendo is sort of at fault I think. Nintendo's games are a "beacon of quality", but the company allows too much crap through. In my opinion Nintendo's only mistake this generation is handing out the Golden Seal too freely. I say that if you want your game to have that beautiful starburst you better damn well earn it.  

[Dude-LAP]

The Wii is not failing. It's just slowing down a bit. I think that it has peaked, but it has a lot of potential. It's still a great system that I use frequently. But the quality of new games coming out isn't that good. I'm waiting for The Conduit to come out, but other than that, I'm not looking forward to any new titles.  

[Xilo The Odd]

the Wii is the big step towrds VR. though i doubt it'll ever happen.  

[Waynebrizzle]

Yeah, there's a lot of s**t being put on the consoles by Ubisoft and other companies just out to make a buck. But you know, it's as easy as not buying the games. This is what game reviewers are SUPPOSED to be doing; drawing the line between good casual games and bad, and not just reviewing everything that's casual poorly. Still, I don't think it's very hard to tell if Imagine Babyz is a bad game or not. Nintendo, Retro, and some other devs (Grasshopper, High Voltage, Platinum games and as an extension Sega) have shown the Wii's potential time and time again. It's all the other developers that are messing things up.  

[5ir Psycho 5exy]

It doesn't take a site to tell me that the Wii has a ridiculously high crap-to-gold ratio. It's just like the GameCube, the '64, the SNES, and even the NES to an extent. Shovelware on Nintendo consoles is old news, and should be something we're used to by now. I almost wonder if it's some kind of sick, twisted marketing strategy, making the good games look that much better by comparison.  

[Owwin]

Waynebrizzle

Yeah, there's a lot of s**t being put on the consoles by Ubisoft and other companies just out to make a buck. But you know, it's as easy as not buying the games. This is what game reviewers are SUPPOSED to be doing; drawing the line between good casual games and bad, and not just reviewing everything that's casual poorly. Still, I don't think it's very hard to tell if Imagine Babyz is a bad game or not. Nintendo, Retro, and some other devs (Grasshopper, High Voltage, Platinum games and as an extension Sega) have shown the Wii's potential time and time again. It's all the other developers that are messing things up.

It is a multifaceted problem. The reviewer and good developers need to start informing the consumer what games are truly gems, so the consumer stops buying the bad products, the consumers and reviewers need to tell the developers to knock off the s**t, and stop allowing shovelware on the console. The developers and consumers need to tell the reviewers to do their jobs right or drink ******** cyanide!