JimWood27

@chrisgrant sure, the 360 had a great year but that doesn't speak to the notion of everyone painting the Wii dead. November Wii numbers did not drop at all compared to '09 even though Kinect launched that very same month. YoY numbers are down, no doubt, but it is still tracking much higher than the PS2 during the same period and I dont recall people digging that console's grave at that point.

It's all about what people want and what people want is for the Wii to die so they talk like it is. are sales declining? of course they are, bound to happen when they have sold millions and millions more than the competition. new sales may be declining but 'dying' implies that it will no longer exist and that is ludicrous.

and making everything 'relative' only lets you reset the goalposts so you can prop up certain things and denigrate others while hard numbers may paint a different picture. but I realize Nintendo is not Apple or Microsoft so that may be too much to ask anymore.

@adv2k169 that makes two us, my friend. Joystiq has been particularly guilty lately of what you say. people complain that Wii has no good games but then actively ignore one when it comes out in the hopes it comes to another platform.

I have an idea: stop whining that a game isn't on PSN or XBLA and buy the Wii version. A lot of gamers have both a Wii and another platform so there aren't any excuses. Games like this don't fail only because 'soccer moms and old people' dont buy them, they also fail because people who consider themselves gamers refuse to buy a Wii game despite it being good.

that one rule about the thing that is really bad if you do it

@Ludwig Kietzmann good to hear, man, good to hear. I also have a 360 so its not like i want 2 hours of Nintendo talk but I dont think the console should always get short shrift because there are some inventive, unique experiences on the console. Keep up the good work, then.

@Ludwig Kietzmann you did talk about Sin & Punishment (and I was glad you did) and I didn't realize you only got the one copy. Just seems that someone else is always reviewing the Wii games so the discussion is relegated to the hope that one or more of you play them as well, and that doesnt always seem to be the case. I realize its difficult to make that happen and just hope that they are not being actively ignored.

so no one is playing Other M from the podcast? big surprise, hardly any Nintendo talk anymore

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