Mario & sonic Olympics on the wii

[juddie]

spent all day trying to buy it yesterday, sold out everywhere.

poor.

[flammableBen]

The Wii has suffered from super popularity + nintendo a bit. It's struggling for must buy games. You had it bundled with Wii Sports, which is fucking brilliant. Then Zelda came out, which is supposed to be pretty good. Then it all went mediocre minigame madness for a bit. Now we've had Metroid Prime III and U R Mr Gay. Yet the only games to look forward too are still the classic Nintendo franchises, as in Wii Mario Kart.

Yeah there's been the occasional good random jobby like excite truck. And some of the aforementioned party/minigames games are pretty good. But it's still lacking anybody really doing anything with it.

I'm a bit disappointed from a non-owner expecting lots point of view. I'd still buy one if I could afford it. Just, I was hoping for a bit more. Maybe it will come later. I think they'll be some top games available for the Wii in a year or two. When people get bored of control gimmicks and decide to actually think about what they're doing.

As I'm on an essay. The xbox360 and ps3 aren't doing much better in games terms. You've got some ace shit on xbox live arcade (including Space Giraffe), and also Bioshock. But nobody is really pushing anything that could be considered a classic game.

The PS3 is even worse.

This generation of consoles have pretty much gone down the big budgets for safe money route. Good fun original games which don't relly on million dollar graphics and sound are pretty rare. The problem being that none of the big game studios (EA etc.) have a reason to change. They can pump out the same shit and people will still buy it and go wow look at those pretty pictures.

Computer/Video gaming is going through a horrible bloated mid-life crisis. Where it's gone from bedroom industry to multimillion budgets in little over a decade. There's always going to be blips, and we're on one.

I'm optimistic about games becoming digitally distributed. Maybe it'll give the bedroom indie developers a chance again.

I've just written a full on dissertation and I apologise.

[Batch]

spent all day trying to buy it yesterday, sold out everywhere.

poor.

Rare as rocking horse poop.  I blame Nintendo squarely for this. I can understand hardware supply issues, but disk duplication is somewhat  quicker and simpler affair.  And don't get me started on the shitty club nintendo star points shop which is always out of star cards. It's a virtual shop - how can these be in limited supply FFS.


Having said that the Wii has done pretty well. It's not about serious gaming. It's about family fun, or having a laugh with your mates post pub. Looking forward to Mario Kart mind.

Now the HD-DVD/Blueray war seems to be over, with Toshiba rumoured to be submitting to Blueray this week, the PS3 will be a no brainer for me. Blueray playback, streaming from my PC and the occasional serious gameplay. It'll take the X-Box 360 crown in the next year or two.

[Samdy Gray]

Now the HD-DVD/Blueray war seems to be over, with Toshiba rumoured to be submitting to Blueray this week, the PS3 will be a no brainer for me. Blueray playback, streaming from my PC and the occasional serious gameplay. It'll take the X-Box 360 crown in the next year or two.

Indeed. I'm thinking of trading in the 360 for a PS3 now before Toshiba actually make the announcement, because when they do the second hand value of Xbox's will go < and the price of new PS3's will go >.

[DV]

It'll take the X-Box 360 crown in the next year or two.

which crown would that be?

xbox are shit and are arent even selling as many as the Playstation 2!!

Wii is out selling them all.

Dont want a games console to play DVDs so dont give a flying fuck about all this blue-ray rubbish.

[Cookie]

Good fun original games which don't relly on million dollar graphics and sound are pretty rare.

The PS2 had a few gems, ICO, Okami and Shadow of Colloseus (although this does have amazing graphics) to name 3, but on the whole Sport Sim '08 from EA is what we get.

generally the good quirky games have limited marketing budget outside of Nippon so it's difficult to find out about them.

[Cookie]

Good fun original games which don't relly on million dollar graphics and sound are pretty rare.

The PS2 had a few gems, ICO, Okami and Shadow of Colloseus (although this does have amazing graphics) to name 3, but on the whole Sport Sim '08 from EA is what we get.

generally the good quirky games have limited marketing budget outside of Nippon so it's difficult to find out about them.

[Simon Pieman]

I think the gaming industry as a whole has been fairly shit over the last few years

[Barry Scott]

I don't own any consoles, but i certainly love the way that, in essence, the X-Box 360 is a dressed down PC and the PS3 is toned down super computer.

One has a P4 and the other has an advanced cell processor developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony, which is now used as the industry standard chip for the most powerful super computers in the world. There's a black hole research lab in american which actually use 8 PS3s as their super computer for research into black holes.

Just found that fascinating when i read about it on ZDnet, so thought i'd drop that riveting little nugget in for no reason other than to post something.

[Batch]

Now the HD-DVD/Blueray war seems to be over, with Toshiba rumoured to be submitting to Blueray this week, the PS3 will be a no brainer for me. Blueray playback, streaming from my PC and the occasional serious gameplay. It'll take the X-Box 360 crown in the next year or two.

Indeed. I'm thinking of trading in the 360 for a PS3 now before Toshiba actually make the announcement, because when they do the second hand value of Xbox's will go < and the price of new PS3's will go >.

Too late Sam, HD DVD is dead to Toshiba!

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2008_02/pr1903.htm

Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses

19 February, 2008

Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content

TOKYO--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.

HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress.

"We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop," said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. "While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality."

Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies.

Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand.

This decision will not impact on Toshiba's commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries.

Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.

[Samdy Gray]

Ah bugger  :x

[STFC_Chris]

Mario and Sonic is in stock on the Asda website and Sendit.com now. 4% Quidco at Sendit as well, which knocks a quid or so off.

http://www.asda-entertainment.co.uk/asda/8677781.product

http://www.sendit.com/game/item/6000000004192

[Batch]

Mario and Sonic is in stock on the Asda website and Sendit.com now. 4% Quidco at Sendit as well, which knocks a quid or so off.

http://www.asda-entertainment.co.uk/asda/8677781.product

http://www.sendit.com/game/item/6000000004192

Thanks, good spot!

[juddie]

all over that my friend, cheers!

[Arriba]

i had a go on a wii and think its fun but its limited and i'd tire of it.
i love my ps3.it upscales normal dvds aswell as being a blue ray player.the games aint nowhere near peeked yet and are set to improve greatly.roll on gta4
its deffo the pick of the consoles imo.