Little Big MadWorld
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You mention, Shamus, that you own all three consoles... which I think is pertinent. Because the PS3, 360, and Wii have had comparative successes in marketing themselves to manufactured gamer niches, plenty of gamers are multi-console these days.
I own a Wii for when 'casual' friends come over and want to race karts after a few beers, and I own a 360 for more graphically intensive single-player stuff. If these consoles provided equivalent gaming experiences, I would probably just get the one and leave it at that.
The stratification of this generation of consoles has probably been good to overall sales for the medium in general.
I own a Wii for when 'casual' friends come over and want to race karts after a few beers, and I own a 360 for more graphically intensive single-player stuff. If these consoles provided equivalent gaming experiences, I would probably just get the one and leave it at that.
The stratification of this generation of consoles has probably been good to overall sales for the medium in general.
This article smells of strawman. I don't know a single person who has come even close to considering their 'lifestyle' when dropping $200+ on a game system. People over the age of 10, in my experience, don't want consoles--they want games, and consoles merely come as a necessary part of the deal in order to make the games work. I could feasibly see some 15-year-old boy buying a PS3 because he'd be embarrassed to have his classmates know he has a Wii, but that doesn't seem a terribly common thing to happen, and any 15 year old is most likely to need to have a (hopefully more rational) parent drop the cash anyway.
So, we see you've bought into the hype of the fanboys. Not even of the console marketers, but the fanboys! Is the purpose of this article to say that you shouldn't listen to fanboys? On the scale of 0 to Insightful, that lesson ranks about an obvious-point-two.
So, we see you've bought into the hype of the fanboys. Not even of the console marketers, but the fanboys! Is the purpose of this article to say that you shouldn't listen to fanboys? On the scale of 0 to Insightful, that lesson ranks about an obvious-point-two.
I would like to see that too however that would be one hell of a thick game. First you have to consider how many assets you have in your typical rpg, then give everybody the ability to modify it. It would be like Oblivion with multiple personality disorder. I had a poll for this:Indigo_Dingo said:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.117204#2219489
I won't pretend to have read any of these comments, but
Neither am I, and I am genuineously disturbed by the amount of people who do.
No I haven't because as I never bother with consoles.Kaisharga said:
Also I am still baffled why people on the internet keep insisting on writing my name with a capital "X" on the end.
P.S.: Ok so I did a quick wikipedia search and I am now confused about your post. From what I get Virtual Console doesn't allow you to, say, play a PS 2 game on your Wii, and neither oes XBox Live Arcade, so how exactly do any of them compare to having an emulator on a PC and being able to play PS 1, PS 2, Xbox, NES, SNES and Nintendo 64 games all on the same machine?
There are several programs that will launch many of those emulators and more. They might not be straight up legal, though, seeing as you happily included PS2 and XBOX emulators, I'm betting you don't concern yourself too thouroughly with all that. There are emulators for all three systems, if you're really looking.Jenx said:
On the original point, though, with nintendo turning back to its core gamer base in the next few months, and MS and Sony trying to imitate the regretfully dismal motion sensing tech, the next few years, if things keep going this way, are going to show us a bit a reverse-around. We'll see fewer core-based games for the heavier platforms, and a few more games that return to roots for the Wii.
Though I wouldn't mind seeing an actual controller for the wii. The classic controller is all well and good, but having it as an attachment is a bit of a nuisance. An actual controller would go miles to promoting the wii as a gaming platfofrm again.