Ubisoft: Wii is, like, totally driven by girls

They need an excuse now?

LOL yea I agree with you fish...do they really...asshole publishers, why do they do this?

I thought it would be Wii cheer 2,4,6,8.

Who do we apprecia-8?

I'd hit it.

"'Broads don't belong in broadcasting'? Is that the kind of professional courtesy you teach your news department?"

I don't know how many time I've told those boys, never call chicks broads.

Weird, usually you'd use your own Wii instead of the 'gals' Wii...

HIYO!!!

You'd be surprised what some people find to be fun *wink wink.
Anyway, I don't have a Wii (as in the console). I kind of want to just go and buy it off my friends for ultra-cheap, because they haven't touched it since the day they bought it. But that would probably just make them hate me.
At least where I live though (Thailand), Wii is definitely not driven by girls.

Haha Foxworthy? I haven't heard/seen his routines in a couple of years...Guess he's too busy with that damn 5th Grader show.

Could be the warts.

You argue a point long beaten into the dirt by all other nostalgic gamers. It isn't that they don't listen, it's that they can't even comprehend it. To them, poor graphics and a good game are mutually exclusive.

Often I wonder if they refuse to read novels due to the lack of pictures. Maybe I should invest in pop-up books.

Wow, way to miss his point entirely NoHitHair.

I don't see how he missed the point...

T_m was ranting about how casual gamers don't spend as much time researching games and are more likely to impulse buy a game that looks good in the store, and that it's up to more experienced gamers to steer them in the right direction. He also noted that casual gamers are more likely to enjoy these impulse, casual games because their expectations aren't set as high without researching what else is out there, and used graphics as a small anecdote towards that at the end.

NoHitHair decided to use that small anecdote at the end as a vehicle to drive his scthick about how graphics don't matter in games and all these kids just don't understand, which is a totally different discussion entirely.

nah, NoHitHair was using the argument about them simply being too retarded to tell the difference

i wasn't ranting... :-(

If they're letting women drive now then yeah, it's probably best to stay off the roads.

That was a joke, please don't ban me...

That was a joke?

Nice, I like big butts...and I cannot lie. :D

Beware the song...about...Big Butts...*gasp*...he plays it while he beats you up! *Cough*

"As long as the titles are GOOD. Quality is key. "

Yes, well, Ubisoft in particular doesn't understand this.

But hey, if they actually tried to make good games on the Wii it would add to the development budget which in turn would mean less of a development budget for PS360 games that they do put effort into.

Yeah, I just hate seeing people NEW to gaming getting hosed and turned off by shovelware. They don't know to check reviews to ascertain quality. Games like Peggle or Rock Band have shown that casuals and traditionals can enjoy quality games at the same time. More of this is what we need. Less Petz, Bratz or Hell's Kitchen.

But the thing is that they're not getting turned off by the shovelware. They love the shovelware, and it's cheap to make on top of that, which just means more cheap shovelware and more profits for everyone.

It's the same reason we have 100 American Idol and Dancing with the Stars knockoffs on TV while much deeper serial shows are slowly dying off.

Except that with few exceptions, the shovelware isn't selling. Ubisoft was lamenting about how their Petz and Imagine games don't sell a whole lot about a year or so ago and just the other day, we had 2K whining about it, too.

Shovelware is designed to make a profit from having obscenely low production costs. They don't need to sell more than a few thousand copies to make a profit on it. Do like Ubisoft does and swap out the graphics throughout 5 otherwise identical titles and you multiply your sales by that much. The business model has been around for years. There's just no stopping it because an otherwise insignificant number of people will purchase those games for whatever reason.
With FEW exceptions do these low cost games actually sell. It's basically marketing by boxart, which explains Carnival Games and Game Party.

That said, my mom thoroughly enjoyed Game Party, so I can't in full conscience say that new gamers don't LOVE shovelware. They are quite aware, though, of the difference in quality between pump 'n' dump trash like Game Party and Wii Sports or Wii Music.

But when the overwhelming majority of the kind of games you like are garbage and you want to, y'know...actually buy games for you system...what are you gonna do?

it does

I said "better;" by that I acknowledged that it has one, but that it's a bit weak.

try again