Re: Npd numbers for april 08 omg!!!!!!

This is my first post and thought I would throw my 2cents into it.
I have both the Wii and a PS3. The PS3 does get more use however, partly because of movies but I just have more games on it. I DO enjoy the Wii ALOT. I love when I hear someone talk shit that the Wii is not considered "next-gen" and that its games suck. I tell them"So, your machine(PS3 or 360) is getting its ass handed to them by an inferior product. That they are making ALOT of money."
We all know that the profit is in software, not hardware. Yet the Wii IS making money off hardware and software. It is a different type of gaming but it is still gaming if you ask me.
I do wish the Wii had better graphics, but they are not that bad at all. Dying in 1080P IS WAY better than dying in 480i. Anyone who compares them to be equall is wrong, Try putting the settings on a PS3 game to 480i and there is NO WAY you could say it is equall to 1080P.
I love my PS3 and playing online(for free) and having a good time with my freinds. I have played COD4 on both consoles(360) and they look the same to me, and I would consider myself a PS3 fanboy but I also try to be fair in my decsions.I just HATE the controller. I feel that if MS had put in an HDDVD drive in the 360, then it would of been a bloodier format war and the PS3 MAY have lost.

I grew up with Atari to and yes they should be considered the inovators but the NES is what EVERYBODY had, imagine online gaming back ten with your freinds, that would have been really cool.
My point is the Wii is a great machine, the PS3 is a great machine and the 360, gulp a great machine. However i REALLY do not care for the 360 in any way.

I honestly not trying to "sell" the Wii to anyone or trying to be aggressive by "attacking" Sony fanboys, I just get flamed when I hear people attacking a product I like because is having phenomenal sales and on the other hand, those same people rub in our faces when their product is doing great too. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, so I become defensive the same way they do.

As for online I am one of the first to admit that the Nintendo's online strategy can be below par but in their defense I think is a byproduct of today's society. Nintendo's main crowd are young kids so I'm sure they are afraid that a sick pedophile might try to get to children via their online system. BTW, technically, XBOX Live is not really a "first" the first console to offer online was the Dreamcast (which I had to sell against my will ). The Dreamcast was ahead of its time and personally its the best console of all time.

Some people day they don't play Nintendo because they are "mature" and the games are childish. Well I can tell you that the Wii (from a parent's perspective) can be more "mature" then PS3 and XBOX360. Why? I'll explain my reasoning. Take a game like GTA, sure you go around committing GTA's, murder, battery, and others shoot, GTA 3 even had hidden x-rated content hidden in it. However, the mechanics of the game are by playing with a controller pressing buttons sitting down. Now take a game like The Godfather: Blackhand Edition for Wii. In case any of you haven't played this game you commit all the offenses a mobster would commit, racketeering, murder, assault, GTA, etc but what I think it makes this game more "mature" than GTA is the mechanics. In Godfather: BE you simulate the moves with the Wiimote, you actually move the hands simulating strangulation, you actually "grab" a person and simulate the movements of smashing their head against a counter or the wall, you also "swing a bat" breaking people's head open so as a parent would be even more concern of my kids actually "acting out" the beating and murder of a person versus just sitting on the couch pressing button. Not that I would allow my kids to play either instance.

I personally think Wii is better overall because Nintendo has done two things that, as a parent, I think are very important:
1.- Nintendo has finally made my kids, and myself, get off the couch and get some exercise while playing video games. Sitting for long periods of time is so bad for our backs (I tell you by experience, I have back problems) that I think is great that finally some company is thinking on the consumer's well being instead of just making sales for the sake of the company.

2.- Nintendo has brought families together again. Is not like in my family we don't do stuff together, but when at home, I'm sure is the same can be said about most families, everyone does their own thing. Kids playing in their room/video games, wife watching TV, me playing video games or other. With the Wii we are almost interacting with each other most of the time. My wife is not much of a gamer but ever since I downloaded Dr. Mario (yeah, you can download games too like in XBOX Arcade), I'm the one telling her to stop playing, she won't leave me alone, lol. All of us workout together on Wii Fit, thing we can't do at the gym because my kids are too young. My wife and I actually throw "Wii Parties" where our friends come a play Wii with us let me tell you, some of those crazy games like Wario Ware and Wii Play can be so easily converted into "mature" games, I don't need an M label to tell me that, only my imagination and be ingenious. You can't do most of these stuff (if any) with XBOX or PS3. And many more things.

So again, IMO, for young people and gamers with individualistic needs XBOX and PS3 are great products of great quality that satisfy their needs. For gamers and families with "collective" needs, I think Wii is not only a great product but the best product of its type today. And in this case the masses and the industry agree too, after all, correct me if I'm wrong but the Wii has being the best selling console almost every (if not every) month since its launch 18 months ago. I think that says a lot by itself, no argument needed.

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This is my first post...

Welcome to DVDTown crx, as you can see we never go bored here.

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I just get flamed when I hear people attacking a product I like because is having phenomenal sales

As I said, I never attacked your "product". Nor did anyone flame you. But saying Blu-ray capability is a "gimmick" for the PS3 is your opinion, however some of us bought the PS3 especially for this particular technology, therefore it is not a gimmick to us. And I'm sure people like myself have helped move their consoles, even though we don't play any stupid console games. Understand already?

But to you, anyone who buys the PS3 for Blu-ray playback and defends it's capability for Blu-ray playback is an instant "Sony fanboy". Gosh, you really need help IMO.

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[Post edited by Skyhawk on Jun 4, 2008]

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I just get flamed when I hear people attacking a product I like because is having phenomenal sales and on the other hand, those same people rub in our faces when their product is doing great too.

Skyhawk, you "forgot" to quote the rest of my sentence. I'm flamed by the double standard of those people. BTW, I never mentioned your name in this thread nor called you a Sony "fanboy", I didn't know until now that you own a PS3 so if the shoe fits, wear it! lol. You sound like the kid who tells his mom he got hit by his brother but doesn't tell her that he hit him first. lol.

BTW, you are right, incorporating the BD drive on the PS3 was not a gimmick, the real gimmick was making the PS3 Blu-ray player a video game machine. It is a fact that Sony neglected the PS3 as a video machine this last year because they were too busy fighting the HD format war. I've read so many post from PS3 owners complaining that the good games were coming out sporadically, and a lot of PS3 owners bought it as a "cheap BD that also played games". Even you claimed that you don't play with your Wii (no pun intended) because it doesn't support BD or DVD. Such comment could be interpreted as if the Wii had BD you would get more use out of it than your PS3.

BTW, why you keep on "beating the dead 'gimmick' horse"? I didn't mentioned it again until now.

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Such comment could be interpreted as if the Wii had BD you would get more use out of it than your PS3.

Interpret this:

If the Wii had Blu-ray playback capabilities equal to the PS3, I wouldn't even own a PS3, but instead a Wii.

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Skyhawk, you "forgot" to quote the rest of my sentence. I'm flamed by the double standard of those people. BTW, I never mentioned your name in this thread nor called you a Sony "fanboy", I didn't know until now that you own a PS3 so if the shoe fits, wear it! lol. You sound like the kid who tells his mom he got hit by his brother but doesn't tell her that he hit him first. lol.

Wii lite, I laughed so freaken hard at this. Too Funny! Tim would be proud of you. Sorry to name drop Tim.

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BTW, you are right, incorporating the BD drive on the PS3 was not a gimmick, the real gimmick was making the PS3 Blu-ray player a video game machine. It is a fact that Sony neglected the PS3 as a video machine this last year because they were too busy fighting the HD format war. I've read so many post from PS3 owners complaining that the good games were coming out sporadically, and a lot of PS3 owners bought it as a "cheap BD that also played games".

You are totally right! Here's some ads that were on-line.


This one shouldn't have never been posted, if It was a gaming console only.

Do any of you have the May 2008 numbers??

may numbers come out the third thursday of june.

Go CELTICS!!!!!