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I hope some one looks and says wall of text....not reading. For me I just don't know how anyone would want anything but PS unless they are so dang hardcore they need every console, and that's all good if you are that hardcore. I just want what is the best for me and it has always been PS. Nintendo is great, but once the mid nineties hit it was all PS for me. Granted Sega Dreamcast and the Nintendo Wii were fun consoles, but overall they can't even compare to the amount of fun a Sonys PS console can crank out. When it comes to those rare gems like a Lost Odyessy/SM3DW I just watch a youtube lets play so I don't do something I consider absurd and pay 300 dollars to play 1 game, I didn't buy Neo Geo games in the early 90's for that same reason, and I'm not gonna do that now. I'm just not hardcore enough to buy that bait. Honestly I think it's foolish to support consoles with lacking software. I probably need to make more money or become a better brainwashed consumer. For some reason I can't. I have casual hardcore roots inner conflicts hahalolol!! Get me a doctor
That's sort of my overall argument. Not to you (stevedave) of course, but the general pro Wii U supporters. The fact that most people on these boards are full of supposed "hardcore" gamers.
They seem to believe that everyone "needs" to be hardcore and buy every gaming console in existence. If it has any negative to it they defend it by kinda doing what you say, well it has this 1 really good game or a very limited few. That's not my style. I used to be hardcore (80's/90's gamer) but now I'm more casual gamer with hardcore roots if I were to label my gamer status or whatever it's called.
If I come across excess money and feel my family would see a benefit in a Wii U, we'll get one to replace the original Wii. It's just that it has to do a lot more than have a handful of decent newer looking Wii games for it. For you it only takes Fire Emblem and your sold.
Well for me that's definitely a game that motivates me to buy a Wii U also, but it takes a lot more than 1 game of that caliber. Just in that genre so to speak. When I looked at the PS3 I knew for sure I wanted to play the FFX13 trilogy, and Valkyria Chronicles. I also picked up Oblivion on it even though I had the GOTY on my PC with Nvidia 3D Vision and got into it in 2005/6, but I struggle with the controls on it so I bought Skyrim for PC after I found that out firsthand, but I spent less than 9 dollars on it new. I get almost no buyers remorse because the games are insanely low priced. I can also pick up games like the original Grandia, about every retro FF, old REvils etc. on PS Store for 5.99,9.99, 19.99 etc. reasonable prices. I also have Xenogears and GT2 still laying around. I must have sold FF tactics and FF7, but I can re-buy them on PS store...cool. Ni No Kuni came out as a surprise to me also, how can you possibly go wrong with a Miyazaki studio Ghibli designed HD game? I also picked up Sega Sonic collection with SF1&2 PS1,2,3,4 for dirt cheap for some retro feels.
I even got the move bundle with my PS3 and my 12 year old daughter absolutely loves it so far always asking me to play on it far more than the Wii in her bedroom, she is very active and she really needs something like this in the house for nightime/weekends/winter months. She tells me when she gets angry this helps her calm down, by playing Move games haha, hey whatever works and is healthy I think is a good way to deal with it. So I bought her a ton more of them move games on Amazon this year for 5-20$ a piece it seemed with my Prime membership, they're all under the Christmas tree now heehee. It's just been such a great gaming console. Heck she was even watching 1993 Power Rangers (Sabertooth Tiger!) on Amazon Prime Season 1 before she went to bed telling me about Victor making monsters with Rita for the Power Rangers to fight/battle, but they always destroy the monsters at the end, and it made me laugh a bit. I just pretend I have never seen the show, so she can tell me about it like the kid who knows everything she is clue'ing me in cuz she thinks I haven't ever saw it, it's more fun that way. I get all of her opinions/insights on the show. She has a far better memory than me when it comes to character names I can always ask her the shows character names and she remembers them unlike me usually. I was trying to explain to her they wear silver covered masks over their mouths because they usually can't dub these shows for a crap, she doesn't get what I mean even though we watched Death Note 1 and 2 on Blu-Ray together with Japanese language and Jet Li's latest Badges of Fury in its native language on the PS3. Watch Spirited Away on it in 1080p plenty of times also with Universal Media Server app. Those are all amazing movies and they need to be experienced in 1080p at the least! I love the cameras they use, the art and the cinematography to those movies along with everything else. You can't play Blu-Rays on them Wii's.
In the end I can't hardly find many valid faults with this PS3, it does so much right, but the Wii is far more limited, and looking at the Wii U's overall sales and its less capable hardware I just have to be completely objective and say wait wait! What are the pro's and cons here? And at the end of the day I go they/Nintendo have YET to prove this Wii U is worth my money period. Also if the XBOX1 had some REALLY AMAZING games I would be looking to spend money on it as well. Anyhow I could find 5 games I would have a lot of fun with on a Nintendo Wii U and some classics etc. but it still doesn't push me over that point where I think, yeah I will get as much fun from a Wii U as I have gotten from my PS3. Therein lies the problem I don't necessarily look at a gaming console like a hardcore gamer. I go oh yeah Wii U... well what does it do better than my PS3? Like you said it has 1 really good RPG in the works, well that doesn't do it for me. I need a handful of RPG's same with the XBOX360 I really wanted to play that Lost Odyessey game, really bad but the FFXIII trilogy was far more tempting along with some of the other great RPG's on the PS3 platform. I just remember that FFXIII trilogy is on the XBOX360, but they don't have Valkyria Chronicles/Ni No Kuni/Star Ocean? they might not even have some of those classics on the XBOX store. I'm not sure though but seeing Square/Enix on anything but PS surprises me I doubt I knew XBOX360 had Square games on it when I picked up my PS3 I assumed they wouldn't. Anyhow GT>Forza imho. TLoU/Uncharted/Infamous/GodoW>GearsoW/Halo or whatever MS studios comes up with for my tastes.
For me I just don't know how anyone would want anything but PS unless they are so dang hardcore they need every console, and that's all good if you are that hardcore. I just want what is the best for me and it has always been PS. Nintendo is great, but once the mid nineties hit it was all PS for me. Granted Sega Dreamcast and the Nintendo Wii were fun consoles, but overall they can't even compare to the amount of fun a Sonys PS console can crank out. When it comes to those rare gems like a Lost Odyessy/SM3DW I just watch a youtube lets play so I don't do something I consider absurd and pay 300 dollars to play 1 game, I didn't buy Neo Geo games in the early 90's for that same reason, and I'm not gonna do that now. I'm just not hardcore enough to buy that bait. Honestly I think it's foolish to support consoles with lacking software. I probably need to make more money or become a better brainwashed consumer. For some reason I can't. I have casual hardcore roots inner conflicts hahalolol!! Get me a doctor
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