that they won't even sell in the US - or watch TV shows they refuse to broadcast on my local cable channel - then, yeah, I'm surprised it's so small a group.
Information just wants to be free (apologies to my brother-in-law who's in AFTRA and SAG).
I agree, they should be hocking games like GTA: Ethnic Rampage, The Sims Do the same Things Again, Need For Speed Underground Hot Pursuit 12, Tony Hawk's Segway Rebel, Star Wars: Make George Lucas Even Richer Through Ludicrous Amounts of Licensed Merchandise, and Final Fantasy XXVIII: 3. You know, the kinds of games that HAVEN'T been franchised to death.
Those are the pre-launch titles. The current titles for those Wii games are:
GTA - Emerald City Wii Sims (aka Sims for the Wii) Need for Wii Speed Tony Hawk's Re8e1 Sk8r Star Wars: Saber Training Lego Star Wars: Wii Adventures Final Fantasy XXL: Wii Chronicles
Not everyone is like you and cares about ultra-high-res splash scenes, or your "emotional" graphics.
Many of us care a lot more about the game play, and since most of America still uses 480p standard TVs (some even have analog TV sets), all the high-end stuff is a waste of time. Technically, if you have an HDTV that's less than 40 inches, it really isn't that different anyway.
as I understand it, due to the low dev costs, it's a lot easier to port the HD 1070p titles which ship with graphics levels for 480p, 720i/p, and 1080i/p for the PS3 and 360. So it can be as short as three months to port to the Wii.
When I look at some of the pipeline product announcements, I see a few PS3 or 360 games have an earlier release date for the Wii port than they do for the other console. There's still a lag, of course.
As long as they have enough Wiimotes to plug them into. From what I've been seeing, getting additional Wiimotes appears to be a bit of a problem right now.;)
If you buy WiiPlay, you get a bundled Wiimote, plus the games - for the same price as the Wiimote by itself!
It needs adventure games, it needs more epic games along the lines of Zelda, and it needs some RPGs besides Zelda.
I agree. While so far all the games I've bought for my Wii are ones I've rated 4 or 5 out of 5 (surprises even me), I really wish there were more RPGs. I'm looking forward to Wii Sims (aka Sims for the Wii), but that's not in the same category.
Have to agree, Rayman Raving Rabbids is my top choice for Wii games I've got - my son prefers Zelda and Trauma Center more, but I just love it's insane silliness. And the dancing!
I see all the shelves full of Wii games but theres no Wii's or Wiimotes to be found.
No, they're selling them like hotcakes and they've ramped up production, but people keep wanting them. Maybe it's the stacks of unsold PS3 consoles in the stores that make you think this, though.
In fact, recent market metrics published in today's Wall Street Journal (uber-expensive subscription required) indicate that demand has not really slackened much since product launch for the Wii, although demand for the PS3 is sub-par.
That said, once you get a Wii, it's pretty easy to find the games for it now. I've got Elebits myself - which I regard as a game to play when I just want a quick game I don't need to have bunches to think about in. Kind of oriented for casual gamers, IMHO. I give it 4 stars out of 5, personally.
Um, have you forgotten Sims: The Urbz or the upcoming Sims for the Wii (which I call Wii Sims)? Quite frankly, if you combine all Sims and Sims 2 sales, it's the number one game series worldwide.
Besides, Will Wright is focussed on getting Spore out for the PC and the Wii right now.
Not disagreeing over the Sims 2 - better on the PC than any of the platforms, but the Sims for the Wii stuff I've seen looks as good as Sims: The Urbz which rocked.
I'm surprised you could find three good PS3 games, though. Unless you're a sports fan or FPS, in which case it's easier. I did say non-cross-platform, however. That's why I listed the Sims stuff last, it's cross-platform like Lego: Star Wars and other such.
Well, if the retailers are marking it down, isn't that called supply and demand? Analysts show that PS3 stocks in stores aren't going out the doors, while they can barely keep the Wii in stock for more than a couple of hours max at almost any store.
To me, that's the market sending Sony a price signal to cut their MSRP to $299 USD. Or at least cut it $100.
Nobody in the US cares about 1080p HDMI, though, that's at most 2 percent of the actual market - few even have 720p HDTV nowadays, and most still have digital or analog 480i or 480p standard TV sets. Based on recent Wall Street Journal (expensive subscription required, I read my home print copy) articles.
Really? I've found the following all to be good: Zelda, Rayman's Raving Rabbids, Excite Truck, Wii Sports (bundled), Elebits, and Trauma Center: Second Opinion.
Plus my new copy of Sims 2: Pets for the GameCube runs with wonderful graphics and close to nil load times and no glitches, unlike my prior Sims 2 games on the GameCube. I'm looking forward to Sims for the Wii (which I call Wii Sims), quite frankly.
I'm sure I'll buy a FRP at some point, but for now I'm good.
But, hey, I agree Red Steel isn't that great as a FPS, so I didn't buy it after I saw some of the reviews.
I was very excited by the PS3's release. I've been a PS and PS2 owner and extremely happy with both. I contemplated waiting in line to get a PS3, but decided against it. I'm now glad I did. Currently, there's only 1 game I want to play, R:FoM.
I've got a PS1 and PS2 as well as a GC and 360 - bought the Wii for the games.
Unfortunately, since I'm not a sports fan or FPS gamer, I should have skipped the 360, as I only got it for one game, Fable (great game!) - All the rest are cross-platform games on that console.
I would wait it out a bit longer until the platform gets at least three excellent games you want to play. In my experience, shelling out a lot of cash - even if you can - will cause more regrets than waiting.
But Resistance: Fall of Man does look sweet. Wait till the price drops and there are three games you want to play, IMHO.
Those who count the WPA and Microsoft counts of validity of licensed MSFT OS installs and believe them
AND
Those who live in the Real World and know that most of the supposed fake installs are legitimate licensees that are not considered valid by WGA but are actually valid and legal licenses.
Eventually, I plan to buy a Wii, but I won't buy a PS3. Even with a discount, they are too expensive.
Oh, come on, at some point they'll sell PS3 units for $200 USD. Just think of all the Blu-Ray movies you're missing out on like... um... sorry, can't think of any.
I mean, seriously, hiring someone to contribute to Wiki and pretend they're an objective source when they're actually paying to publish your FUD and distorted views, is akin to spam from zombie computers.
We mostly use open source software in our shop, but a number of us have Windows boxen - or dual boot Linux/Win boxen - so that we can use Microsoft Office.
At home, a lot of us use Open Office - even on our Windows PCs.
It really depends on how your work is organized. For a small shop, changing over is fine, if you're mostly just using DOC and XLS formats, but not coding for Access (MDB) or doing add-ons for Word and Excel. But if your DBMS is something like MySQL, and you just need to be able to read and write to the DOC and XLS formats, then you should be fine. But this is something that some people regard as highly volatile, so you'd need to have the backing of both your shop and your boss in particular.
Actually it's called Sims Stories, designed to work on non-WinVista laptops and not worry about graphics problems, and there are three versions - check it out at the The Sims website. But there's also Sims 2: Seasons in a couple of months.
Soon expect to see Sims 2: Spore and Sims 2: Curling, as well as the blockbuster Sims 2: World of Warcraft.
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that they won't even sell in the US - or watch TV shows they refuse to broadcast on my local cable channel - then, yeah, I'm surprised it's so small a group.
Information just wants to be free (apologies to my brother-in-law who's in AFTRA and SAG).
oops, sorry, messed up the tags.
I agree, they should be hocking games like GTA: Ethnic Rampage, The Sims Do the same Things Again, Need For Speed Underground Hot Pursuit 12, Tony Hawk's Segway Rebel, Star Wars: Make George Lucas Even Richer Through Ludicrous Amounts of Licensed Merchandise, and Final Fantasy XXVIII: 3. You know, the kinds of games that HAVEN'T been franchised to death.
Those are the pre-launch titles. The current titles for those Wii games are:
GTA - Emerald City
Wii Sims (aka Sims for the Wii)
Need for Wii Speed
Tony Hawk's Re8e1 Sk8r
Star Wars: Saber Training
Lego Star Wars: Wii Adventures
Final Fantasy XXL: Wii Chronicles
Not everyone is like you and cares about ultra-high-res splash scenes, or your "emotional" graphics.
Many of us care a lot more about the game play, and since most of America still uses 480p standard TVs (some even have analog TV sets), all the high-end stuff is a waste of time. Technically, if you have an HDTV that's less than 40 inches, it really isn't that different anyway.
as I understand it, due to the low dev costs, it's a lot easier to port the HD 1070p titles which ship with graphics levels for 480p, 720i/p, and 1080i/p for the PS3 and 360. So it can be as short as three months to port to the Wii.
When I look at some of the pipeline product announcements, I see a few PS3 or 360 games have an earlier release date for the Wii port than they do for the other console. There's still a lag, of course.
It's a lot easier than it used to be. I picked up a second Wiimote after a few weeks of asking.
As long as they have enough Wiimotes to plug them into. From what I've been seeing, getting additional Wiimotes appears to be a bit of a problem right now. ;)
If you buy WiiPlay, you get a bundled Wiimote, plus the games - for the same price as the Wiimote by itself!
It needs adventure games, it needs more epic games along the lines of Zelda, and it needs some RPGs besides Zelda.
I agree. While so far all the games I've bought for my Wii are ones I've rated 4 or 5 out of 5 (surprises even me), I really wish there were more RPGs. I'm looking forward to Wii Sims (aka Sims for the Wii), but that's not in the same category.
Have to agree, Rayman Raving Rabbids is my top choice for Wii games I've got - my son prefers Zelda and Trauma Center more, but I just love it's insane silliness. And the dancing!
I see all the shelves full of Wii games but theres no Wii's or Wiimotes to be found.
No, they're selling them like hotcakes and they've ramped up production, but people keep wanting them. Maybe it's the stacks of unsold PS3 consoles in the stores that make you think this, though.
In fact, recent market metrics published in today's Wall Street Journal (uber-expensive subscription required) indicate that demand has not really slackened much since product launch for the Wii, although demand for the PS3 is sub-par.
That said, once you get a Wii, it's pretty easy to find the games for it now. I've got Elebits myself - which I regard as a game to play when I just want a quick game I don't need to have bunches to think about in. Kind of oriented for casual gamers, IMHO. I give it 4 stars out of 5, personally.
Um, have you forgotten Sims: The Urbz or the upcoming Sims for the Wii (which I call Wii Sims)? Quite frankly, if you combine all Sims and Sims 2 sales, it's the number one game series worldwide.
Besides, Will Wright is focussed on getting Spore out for the PC and the Wii right now.
Why is the EU being forced to pay twice as much for the same product? The Wall Street Journal (expensive online subscription required) reports today that not only is the street retail price of the PS3 in Japan half that of the MSRP for the EU, but apparently adult entertainment providers are avoiding Blu-Ray and going to HD-DVD worldwide, making the doubled price highly questionable, even as PS3 consoles are piling up on store shelves in Japan and the US, due to lack of demand.
Not disagreeing over the Sims 2 - better on the PC than any of the platforms, but the Sims for the Wii stuff I've seen looks as good as Sims: The Urbz which rocked.
I'm surprised you could find three good PS3 games, though. Unless you're a sports fan or FPS, in which case it's easier. I did say non-cross-platform, however. That's why I listed the Sims stuff last, it's cross-platform like Lego: Star Wars and other such.
Well, if the retailers are marking it down, isn't that called supply and demand? Analysts show that PS3 stocks in stores aren't going out the doors, while they can barely keep the Wii in stock for more than a couple of hours max at almost any store.
To me, that's the market sending Sony a price signal to cut their MSRP to $299 USD. Or at least cut it $100.
Nobody in the US cares about 1080p HDMI, though, that's at most 2 percent of the actual market - few even have 720p HDTV nowadays, and most still have digital or analog 480i or 480p standard TV sets. Based on recent Wall Street Journal (expensive subscription required, I read my home print copy) articles.
Really? I've found the following all to be good: Zelda, Rayman's Raving Rabbids, Excite Truck, Wii Sports (bundled), Elebits, and Trauma Center: Second Opinion.
Plus my new copy of Sims 2: Pets for the GameCube runs with wonderful graphics and close to nil load times and no glitches, unlike my prior Sims 2 games on the GameCube. I'm looking forward to Sims for the Wii (which I call Wii Sims), quite frankly.
I'm sure I'll buy a FRP at some point, but for now I'm good.
But, hey, I agree Red Steel isn't that great as a FPS, so I didn't buy it after I saw some of the reviews.
why aren't they dropping it in the US?
Still waiting for $299 USD.
Err... Why didn't you just snap up a used/refurbed Xbox then?
At the time, my son convinced me there would be more games for it, so even though I wondered about that, I went along and bought one.
Never again. Now, if it can't pass the Three Good Games rule, I won't buy it. No matter how good the cross-platform games are.
I was very excited by the PS3's release. I've been a PS and PS2 owner and extremely happy with both. I contemplated waiting in line to get a PS3, but decided against it. I'm now glad I did. Currently, there's only 1 game I want to play, R:FoM.
I've got a PS1 and PS2 as well as a GC and 360 - bought the Wii for the games.
Unfortunately, since I'm not a sports fan or FPS gamer, I should have skipped the 360, as I only got it for one game, Fable (great game!) - All the rest are cross-platform games on that console.
I would wait it out a bit longer until the platform gets at least three excellent games you want to play. In my experience, shelling out a lot of cash - even if you can - will cause more regrets than waiting.
But Resistance: Fall of Man does look sweet. Wait till the price drops and there are three games you want to play, IMHO.
Those who count the WPA and Microsoft counts of validity of licensed MSFT OS installs and believe them
AND
Those who live in the Real World and know that most of the supposed fake installs are legitimate licensees that are not considered valid by WGA but are actually valid and legal licenses.
Eventually, I plan to buy a Wii, but I won't buy a PS3. Even with a discount, they are too expensive.
... um ... sorry, can't think of any.
Oh, come on, at some point they'll sell PS3 units for $200 USD. Just think of all the Blu-Ray movies you're missing out on like
and hope they have paid their fire insurance bill recently.
I mean, seriously, hiring someone to contribute to Wiki and pretend they're an objective source when they're actually paying to publish your FUD and distorted views, is akin to spam from zombie computers.
Can they do it? Apparently.
Should they do it? No.
and thank the Gods that my space suit is armored.
And the policies therein.
We mostly use open source software in our shop, but a number of us have Windows boxen - or dual boot Linux/Win boxen - so that we can use Microsoft Office.
At home, a lot of us use Open Office - even on our Windows PCs.
It really depends on how your work is organized. For a small shop, changing over is fine, if you're mostly just using DOC and XLS formats, but not coding for Access (MDB) or doing add-ons for Word and Excel. But if your DBMS is something like MySQL, and you just need to be able to read and write to the DOC and XLS formats, then you should be fine. But this is something that some people regard as highly volatile, so you'd need to have the backing of both your shop and your boss in particular.
Actually it's called Sims Stories, designed to work on non-WinVista laptops and not worry about graphics problems, and there are three versions - check it out at the The Sims website. But there's also Sims 2: Seasons in a couple of months.
Soon expect to see Sims 2: Spore and Sims 2: Curling, as well as the blockbuster Sims 2: World of Warcraft.