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[general tbag]

dam the wii is lookin to be the must have for the next gen. with ubi soft announcement, and alot of other companies rampin up production on the wii, with the virtual console, , looks like nintendo gonna make some ground this next gen. hoprfully the full spec list/ release date is announced. i have a feelin it gonna be one of those last minute announcements, b4 they hit the store.

[p2501]

ubi soft? huh? link dammit link!

[general tbag]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=18764 yea ubisoft is givin alot of love for the wii at launch, no less than 7 games by the sounds of it, also next prince of persia is wii bound.

[p2501]

sweet, now if we can get a damn release date and some preorder SKU's i'll be happy.

[bassman]

I've heard alot about the 360 and PS3, but nothing about thw Wii. I figured Nintendo was basically dead at this point....

[general tbag]

with nintendos back catalog of games, it gonna be pretty interesting. right now microsoft is relying on third party support for the 360 market place. the ps3 is just all up in the air.

[p2501]

i'm sticking with my initial analysis. the wii is going to kill everything this christmas. the xbox will do very well, both interms of console sales and new users on XBL. Sony on the otherhand. i've been seeing vultures circling their US headquarters alot lately.

[general tbag]

ahaha yea alot of sony fanboys r jumping ship, that 599 price tag is a major turn off.

[p2501]

between the price, the issues with the cell processors. and game houses complaining about un realistic released dates. the ps3 is going to be a debacle.

[CoinReturn]

I agree about the Wii. There is a certain charm about Nintendo devolped games. Zelda and Mario, there are no other franchises like them. One is an epic fantasy tale that never fails to impress, the other is the best platformer ever, with nearly perfect controls and challenge though its series. I'll be lined up outside day 1 to get Wii.

[DeadJonas190]

I figured Nintendo was basically dead at this point.... They would have been long dead by now if their handhelds weren't such good sellers. The lack of 3rd party support on the past 2 systems would definatly have killed them, but having handheld hardware that is highly profitable and the world-wide best selling handheld units they have stayed alive. The Ubi Soft announcement made me more excited about the Wii. Luckily I am first on the call list for Wii preorders at my work. With a price tag of no more than $250 I am pretty sure it will outsell Sony if Nintendo can produce enough units.

[general tbag]

They would have been long dead by now if their handhelds weren't such good sellers. The lack of 3rd party support on the past 2 systems would definatly have killed them, but having handheld hardware that is highly profitable and the world-wide best selling handheld units they have stayed alive. ummm that 5-6 billion they had prior also helped to.

[Danny]

I figured Nintendo was basically dead at this point.... ....i smell a ps2 fanboy me ive got a 360 ,and i dont want a ps3 cus theres no decent games for it that id want to buy a whole console package for, but i want a wii cus it looks like a hell of a lot of fun, id love to see an evil dead game for the wii thatd be one notch of fun.

[bassman]

....i smell a ps2 fanboy Get your sniffer fixed. I've never owned nor played a PS2. I quit playing video games after my XBOX quit reading discs. I've never liked playstations, actually. The look of the games are too....how can I put this....choppy. There's squares within everything and to me, it doesn't look as good as, say the XBOX. I just figured Nintendo was on the downfall because they're the ones that tried sticking with cartridges as long as possible. But I've never really played the Game Cube, so I was really speaking from the past.

[DeadJonas190]

ummm that 5-6 billion they had prior also helped to. Sure it helped, there is no denying that. Nintendo is one of the only game companies that makes a profit on their hardware units, so that is also a huge help to keeping them going without the third party support that is desperatly needed in the videogaming world. The XBOX never was profitable for Microsoft as they made their money on accessories and games and the 360 will not be profitable for them until 2008. I am not exactly sure on when the PS2 became profitable for Sony, but I know that when it came out at $299.99 they were losing $18 or more a system and were charging $35 for memory cards and controlers to make up for the loss. The only system out of these next gen systems I am not going to own any time soon is the PS3. I refuse to pay that much money for a gaming system just because Sony wants to push the Blu-Ray format years before most people will own a TV able to use it to it's full potential. That plus the many problems I have had in the past with Sony gaming products and their customer service, I really don't plan on spending more money on Sony products at those exorbitant prices.