The Conduit Comments by Christian Donlan

@SuperBas: You only own 1 console at a time? What? I agree that a 360 will do you better than a Wii these days, but..why not have both?


@beemoh
The discusion was not about Wii Fit versus Zelda, but rather open voice chat/online like 360/ps3 versus the rather sucky and limited system the Wii use (with friend codes etc).

The reason for this is to not scare the poor mothers and childs away from the console. And by implementing better online-features you would no doubt see the sales numbers go down in the "family-gamers" group, while a few "of us (adults who like games)" would be very happy about it.

New resolution: To try to ignore fanboy tards who post in threads like these.. Right.. back on topic..


Wii speak in an FPS game? not likely.. You can see the daily mail planning their "wii game swore to my child" storyline already.. probably with a picture of anne diamond looking grumpy

Seems to have promising features and set construction ideas. Looking forward to giving this a twirl myself.

@Krelle:

>The discusion was not about Wii Fit versus Zelda, but rather open voice chat/online like 360/ps3 versus the rather sucky and limited system the Wii use (with friend codes etc).

Two halves of the same coin, though- no amount of 'proper' games (of which Zelda would be an example) is going to make the Wii Fit peasants revolt. Likewise, letting The Conduit use a 360/PS3esque online system isn't going to suddenly turn every basically online-free Wii Fit Next-Gen-Brown and cause the balance boards to grow spikes and become unusable.

If it's two groups that don't affect each other, then Nintendo can cater for both and turn a greater profit- it's the industry's failure to cater for more than one demographic at a time that caused it to stagnate in such a way that Nintendo felt the need to jack-knife away from their previous output so vigorously.

This is why I bought up the music label analogy- Miley Cyrus' output doesn't affect the sales of [more credible niche darling] and vice versa. The music labels have become so big because they did both, not just concentrated on the bigger one.

beemoh:
You dont seem to understand. Or Im just stupid. Could be both! :)

Anyway. You want "hardcore" games. I want "hardcore" games.
You want voice chat, I want voice chat.

The "hardcore games" was never a part of the discussion, so lets just agree that more and better games would be flockin great.

But the VOICE CHAT, and the rather open ONLINE ui(like 360/ps3), that someone claimd Nintendo should implement, thats where we need to put ourselves in Nintendos position.
It wont take many "Underage porn sent over Wii!-headlines", or 15 years shouting "cockface fucker" to someones 2year old son, to totally sink the Wii when it comes to how moms and families look at the console.
Lets be honest here. "We" are not a big enough group to please, to risk loosing the new "casual market".

My english is not in top form, sorry. But the above is more or less what I wanted to say. The main thing is put yourself in Nintendos position, and not the the "hardcore camp".