Nintendo Wii's pitiful online gaming service

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: randay
if nintendo wants to go in that direction then they are doing a great job. and by that direction i mean a gaming system for very young children. however, even children can be competitive, and some skills just cant be developed without a competitive atmosphere. sometimes its all a game has to do to become a great game, just have good mechanics for people to compete with.

as far as being a great little console for very young children they are doing a great job, but its gonna turn off a lot of 2nd+ generation console gamers. like me.

I'm a first gen gamer and I love the Wii, as do many others my age. As I have said before the vocal minority, like yourself, lambaste the Wii in one or many of the following ways:

- It's a waggle fest/controls are a gimmick
- It's a GC2, nothing more
- Online sucks
- It's for very young children/kids/I'm an adult, honest, what? 15 is not grown up? But I shoot things, with blood!!

You see the counter point is this; The online is NOT comparable with the competing consoles offering, but in reality it doesn't matter. It's NOT competing on that. The device is selling nearly half a million units a month WITHOUT this holy grail of online splatterhouse type of game. While N produce games for entertainment, regardless of age group, the other consoles are producing efforts that still promote solitary play of games aimed at boys aged 14-22.

The Wii promotes interaction and social exchange when it's on. A PS3 with CoD4 promotes a darkened room, a headset, violence, profanity and four hour stretches of gameplay. Try sitting down in your front room with your GF every night, hogging the TV with that while she wants to watch ANTM. Not going to happen. In reality, the Wii is for Adults. You couldn't be more wrong when you claim it is for very young children.

The bold part pretty much proves my point. being this is your first console, youve never had much experience with the things wii is lacking and dont fully understand what it can bring to the table.

you cannot say that i am completely wrong about it being for young children since many aspects of what little online gameplay it supports is molded and designed around protecting children from the dangers of being online with strangers.

:facepalm:

The bolded part pretty much owns you.


Couldn't find my N64 to snap. My first console played pong, boy.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: randay
if nintendo wants to go in that direction then they are doing a great job. and by that direction i mean a gaming system for very young children. however, even children can be competitive, and some skills just cant be developed without a competitive atmosphere. sometimes its all a game has to do to become a great game, just have good mechanics for people to compete with.

as far as being a great little console for very young children they are doing a great job, but its gonna turn off a lot of 2nd+ generation console gamers. like me.

I'm a first gen gamer and I love the Wii, as do many others my age. As I have said before the vocal minority, like yourself, lambaste the Wii in one or many of the following ways:

- It's a waggle fest/controls are a gimmick
- It's a GC2, nothing more
- Online sucks
- It's for very young children/kids/I'm an adult, honest, what? 15 is not grown up? But I shoot things, with blood!!

You see the counter point is this; The online is NOT comparable with the competing consoles offering, but in reality it doesn't matter. It's NOT competing on that. The device is selling nearly half a million units a month WITHOUT this holy grail of online splatterhouse type of game. While N produce games for entertainment, regardless of age group, the other consoles are producing efforts that still promote solitary play of games aimed at boys aged 14-22.

The Wii promotes interaction and social exchange when it's on. A PS3 with CoD4 promotes a darkened room, a headset, violence, profanity and four hour stretches of gameplay. Try sitting down in your front room with your GF every night, hogging the TV with that while she wants to watch ANTM. Not going to happen. In reality, the Wii is for Adults. You couldn't be more wrong when you claim it is for very young children.

The bold part pretty much proves my point. being this is your first console, youve never had much experience with the things wii is lacking and dont fully understand what it can bring to the table.

you cannot say that i am completely wrong about it being for young children since many aspects of what little online gameplay it supports is molded and designed around protecting children from the dangers of being online with strangers.

:facepalm:

The bolded part pretty much owns you.


Couldn't find my N64 to snap. My first console played pong, boy.

We are using the term generation in different ways. im probably using it wrong. what i mean is people who are new to consoles vs. people who arent.

Anyway, im done with you. I dont feel the need to "debate" with someone who feels the need to add ", boy." to the end of his "debates". have fun, man.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: randay
if nintendo wants to go in that direction then they are doing a great job. and by that direction i mean a gaming system for very young children. however, even children can be competitive, and some skills just cant be developed without a competitive atmosphere. sometimes its all a game has to do to become a great game, just have good mechanics for people to compete with.

as far as being a great little console for very young children they are doing a great job, but its gonna turn off a lot of 2nd+ generation console gamers. like me.

I'm a first gen gamer and I love the Wii, as do many others my age. As I have said before the vocal minority, like yourself, lambaste the Wii in one or many of the following ways:

- It's a waggle fest/controls are a gimmick
- It's a GC2, nothing more
- Online sucks
- It's for very young children/kids/I'm an adult, honest, what? 15 is not grown up? But I shoot things, with blood!!

You see the counter point is this; The online is NOT comparable with the competing consoles offering, but in reality it doesn't matter. It's NOT competing on that. The device is selling nearly half a million units a month WITHOUT this holy grail of online splatterhouse type of game. While N produce games for entertainment, regardless of age group, the other consoles are producing efforts that still promote solitary play of games aimed at boys aged 14-22.

The Wii promotes interaction and social exchange when it's on. A PS3 with CoD4 promotes a darkened room, a headset, violence, profanity and four hour stretches of gameplay. Try sitting down in your front room with your GF every night, hogging the TV with that while she wants to watch ANTM. Not going to happen. In reality, the Wii is for Adults. You couldn't be more wrong when you claim it is for very young children.

The bold part pretty much proves my point. being this is your first console, youve never had much experience with the things wii is lacking and dont fully understand what it can bring to the table.

you cannot say that i am completely wrong about it being for young children since many aspects of what little online gameplay it supports is molded and designed around protecting children from the dangers of being online with strangers.

:facepalm:

The bolded part pretty much owns you.


Couldn't find my N64 to snap. My first console played pong, boy.

We are using the term generation in different ways. im probably using it wrong. what i mean is people who are new to consoles vs. people who arent.

Anyway, im done with you. I dont feel the need to "debate" with someone who feels the need to add ", boy." to the end of his "debates". have fun, man.

The term boy was only as condescending as the part of your post I bolded, but yeah, we're off topic now.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

I think you're on the money. Glad someone can debate properly. :thumbsup:

haha someone agrees with him and they are proper debaters.

I agreed with him. Are you sure you read the thread, or too busy trolling to add value?