Agumen

The average age of the people who BUY and own the Wii is higher, because parents buying it for their kids are older than young adults who buy the PS3 and 360. However the Neilsen ratings recently published show that in terms of those who actually play the games the Wii has the youngest audience, roughly 6-11, and the PS3 the oldest. That's just the biggest sector, I play the Wii and am 25. It's neither a good or bad thing, it just is what it is.

I'm happy The Conduit is T for Teen because mature games often subsitute violence and crude humor for a developed plot and characters. I'm also happy because more people can experience it.

As for the A.S.E, it looks awesome. Kinda like Samus' scanner. I'm not a huge shooter fan - you need to give me something to do other than shoot or I get bored. That's why Halo is not for me, but the likes of Fallout 3 and Metroid Prime are some of my favourite games ever. This trailer makes me believe that the Conduit may be a mixture of Goldeneye style action and Metroid Prime investigation. (Though I don't believe it will reach those AAA heights.) I don't need to explain to you guys how excited that makes me!

It is quite interesting to hear this guy frankly and honestly discuss all the criticism. I was openly calling the service OnLies, like a lot of other internet observers. But hearing the guy talk about it, it actually seems like a more humble and achievable service than I had previously imagined. I'm still skeptical, but now I'll keep my eyes open. However considering I live in Europe, I'll probably never see it anyway unless it dominates the US.

What I don't believe is that this will ever become the way to experience the latest games. It would take too much money in processing power on their side to deal with the amount of people all rushing to play the 'new Crysis' or equivalent; and the consumer would get a compressed image when, with new blockbuster games, graphical fidelity tends to be very important to gamers (with Crysis this was, in fact, the games selling point).

What I can see is this service having success in certain genres of less than bleeding edge pc games. Take Warcraft 3 or Civ 4 etc. (Excuse the examples, I'm a console gamer)

Either way, I wouldn't be quaking in my boots if I were Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo.

A system that's not receiving new software, receives no advertising at all, and is considered inferior to a better version on the market (PS3) is obviously not going to sell over the Wii, no matter what the price. Sony are trying to make the best of a really bad situation (being stuck with an overpriced box in a recession) by refocusing on the PS2 but this won't work. That said, those who haven't played the PS2's library of games should run out an grab one - possibly the best software library of all time, and easily blows any one console this gen out of the water. The very best games on the gamecube were a little better, in my humble opinion, but there were 5-10 times the number of AA or AAA games on the PS2.

The reason the UK remains immune is that the sterling is so damn weak that the Japanese companies are making far less money in yen per sale. So they just can't afford to drop the price. Sucks for the UK, but they've got bigger issues in their economy than PS prices at the mo'. Because the rest of Europe uses the euro it's pretty stable in comparison. If the Irish still used their own money it'd be worth next to nothing at this stage. Euro is pretty useful after all.

Yo, a proper sequel to de Wind Waker. Phantom Hourglass was shit and didn't tie into the first game at all. More and bigger islands, more storytelling, play as tetra, and have the story divided up into chapters, Mario Bros and RE4 style. ie. 1-2, 3-2 etc.

In each section you would have some task to do and something important would happen in the story; so much so that when you looked back on playing the game if someone asked, 'hey remember chapter 2-2' you'd be like oh yeah, the fire temple, where link ended up getting knocked unconcious and tetra had to blah blah blah.' Of course at any stage you can go do what you want in Zelda style.

The treasure chests would have meaningful tresures in them like weapons or blue tunics etc. and not just rupees. And you could find magic pearls that show you the history of the races of hyrule in cutscenes (as if you're looking into the pearl - think harry potter's memory system) that bring you up to speed on how everything became the way it is. Other than that more of the same Wind Wakery goodness.

For people like me who generally live in Europe for six months of the year, and america for the other, region locking is a total curse. I'm not an importer or a pirate, yet half the year I can't play the games I own. I have to have two copies of many of my favourite games (well, only two, I'm not stupid). The freeloader was the greatest product ever invented for me. Anyway, to all the clever people who create workarounds, thank you. Your work is much appreciated.

You cut through the bullshit and hit the nail on the head here. Last year was fantastic, this year sucks for us core gamers. Opposite was true for casuals.

This is a big problem. A smart company diversifies, but NEVER leaves any area of there consumer base feeling unsatisfied. And it's the consumers who get to decide if they're happy or not. Obviously, Nintendo's traditional fans are unhappy at the Christmas schedule, ergo Nintendo fucked up.

Nintendo have always been brilliant at the large sweeping innovations and effing crap at the mundane stuff like month by month schedule planning for different audiences that Microsoft is so good at.

My hope is simply that when Nintendo gets back to their traditional franchises, they don't try and dumb them down like they did Phantom Hourglass, the only Zelda game I ever played that I didn't like. They must realize they are now serving two SEPERATE audiences as thus need two seperate products.

I was surprised by Wii Sports Resort, both because I wasn't expecting it and I wasn't expecting it to look so good. It seems like much more than a cash in on the original's sucess thanks to the excellent use of Wii Motion Plus and three great choices so far for new sports to show it off. The sword fighting in particular looks fantastic.

I wasn't at all surpised by Wii Music or Animal Crossing, but I was surprised that that was the rest of Nintendo's Wii line-up. With their hardware way out in first, every piece of software they release this Christmas has the chance to be a major moneyspinner, yet they hype only Wii Music and AC:CF. Strange.

Lastly, I was surpised by the lack of small trailers for hardcore titles just to appease us fanboys. I remeber them doing the trailer thing with Twilight Princess and Metroid Prime 3, and it worked to appease the masses and build excitement. Sony did the same with God of War III, which gave nothing away, but was confirmation that they haven't forgot about its fans. It would have only taken a minute or two out of Nintendo's causal focused time and could have prevented the negative vibe that prevailed amongst the traditional Nintendo fan after the show.

Responses like this drive me up the wall.

When I come home from work, I go out and play football (that's probably soccer to you) for an hour or two with mates. I have a life. I go outdoors. All the time.

HOWEVER... when I come home, my hobby is videogaming. And part of the fun of that hobby is looking ahead at games you are interested in and learning about them to increase your excitement / anticipation. If it wasn't, an expo like E3 would have no presence on the web; people wouldn't care.

So therefore, when a company announces games that make people excited, they get on the net and celebrate. When a company disappoints some of its fans, of course they'll put their two cents online. It's their effing right; it's all part of the hobby.

To suggest that it means people have no life is absurd. Blindly assuming the games you want are coming without evidence, or defending a company soley based on its past performance seems illogical to me. If people giving their opinion makes you sick, I suggest you're the one in need of a breath of fresh air.

Fair play to Miyamoto. If a company is honest about their business, I've got no beef with them doing whatever it is they feel they need to do to sell product. It's when they fudge the issue that I get pissed off. Reggie saying that hardcore gamers should be happy just to get animal crossing was one of those moments. Firstly, don't tell me or anyone else what should make us happy, as customers we're entitled to our own opinions. Secondly, to deny that the show ignored their traditional customer was head-in-the-sand blind, as Miyamoto now confirms. At least somebody said it, I though maybe Nintendo had gone mad.