Wii Game Roundup Comments by Richard Leadbetter

>"Hehe, where's the interwebs ultimate wiitard smelly at today? Usually he'd have appeared by now to tell us we are all 14 and wank too much"

I'm sure he's here, lurking in the background ,watching....
Then he'll strike, like the jaws-like fanboy he is.

Edit: I see Im too late.

>It would still outsell the Xbox 360 and PS3 in Japan.

I personally think the ps3 is a temporary glitch.

.. it'll sell shit loads soon enough.

360 on the other hand... Mind you, that prolly accounts for all the worried 360 fankids posting in these forums like the above.. :-)

I'm still waiting on some sort of coherent statistic as to who, precisely, buys a Wii. Is it selling to the gaming faithful, or all these celebrated 'non-gamers' we keep hearing about? Is it even in the same commercial ballpark as the ps3 and 360? Where's the overlap?

All I know for certain is that it sure as hell isn't selling to me. Gamecube games + an under-utilised Wiimote do not a solid purchase make. IMO.

well fuck off then. :-)

Again, this review roundup has confirmed the Wii is not ready to entertain me.

But I'm no Wii-hater, ports and shit quirky stuff just don't appeal to me. I think eventually that it has to shine (fingers crossed for the PS3 also), but right now whenever I need some Nintendo love I dust off the Cube.

@Overlush


There's over 120m people in Japan and thus etc etcI just wonder who's REALLY going to be smiling when the dust settles...





A balanced view for a change - i.e not ranting even though I disagree :) The only point I was really trying to make - apart from the success of Nintendo both through hardware and software was that the Wii won't actually fail as was suggested by Damage. Sure it may come second ultimatley but it won't fail, especially when you look at the software sales (in Japan obviously)

I know that you point out 2% of the population have bought a wii - it would probably be significantly higher if Nintendo could manage to sort their production out. Obviously MS and Sony don't have these problems yet still sell significantly less units.

As regards who will be smilling when the dust settles, it depends on which market you look at I guess. In Japan itself the only guarantee is that Microsoft won't ever be smiling (unless they can get Sqaure to develop for them exclusivley)
PS3 will probably start to sell shed loads when FF and/or MGS. My guess is Sony will end up with a smile but it will be a raging bull smile - all broken teeth and blood and Nintendo will still be smiling the same smile that they have now.
Personally as it stands I know which comapany I'd rather be an executive at at this moment in time :)

Though not comparable to one another, I think Godfather is by far the best game on the console after Twiglight Princess.