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QFE. Big difference between spending $600 to get the hardware, and spending $600 to get the hardware and enough software to keep you entertained for a couple weeks. I do find it somewhat funny that some of the best games out for both PS3 and X360, are the very games that didn't cost big fists of cash to develop. The ones that are selling some of the best, and making some of the highest profits, are their low-cost arcade titles, while a lot of the big, ten million dollar budget titles are lucky to make back what was spent. Of course, a lot of those cheap arcade-style titles are also designed to be -fun- to play, and not be pure gloss with a few bangs to get blood pressure up.

I think one of the big problems with the design of the Wii, is that full power use is like, 45 watts, and standby/WiiConnect24 is 44 watts. It uses full drain, minus the fans, when idle, instead of stepping down the processor into a low drain mode.

I haven't noticed any issues, and had a launch Wii. And I have had WiiConnect24 enabled since getting a wireless router. I guess a game like MP3 is going to do the trick, in telling one way or another if I need to send off to replace.

Anyone else notice something odd about a lot of shops? In Canada, at least? A bunch of places that don't normally deal with games, but do keep them in with their electronics/computer/entertainment departments.. they seem to be completely ignoring Nintendo. They don't stock or advertise the game at all. An example that stood out for me today was London Drugs. They have pretty much the only flier I look through, because of it having its own tech section. In it, they had X360, PS2, PS3 and PSP advertised. But absolutely nothing for Wii. Which is just messed up, since you know.. they wouldn't really be able to keep anything in stock.

You missed the point. For development purposes, as far as the graphics go, Wii is literally just a pumped up Gamecube. But, so far, we've seen next to nothing that even matches Gamecube games for visual, or play, quality. It means, developers are failing at even making a decent Gamecube game. Wii has, by and large, a 6 year development cycle already under its belt as far as being able to actually WORK with the hardware goes. Developers already know how to create a baseline game that looks like a late Gamecube title in 8-9 months, but they haven't even pulled that much off. Instead, they're trying to market abortions like Cruis'n, which has graphics that look like an early PS1 title, as if it were something new and great. If you can't evolve the gameplay, at least polish the looks. If you can't do either, don't waste everyone's time and money.

The only really bad thing about Wii is that, thus far, almost all the best looking, best playing games on it.. are literally Gamecube games. And I don't mean ports. I mean actual, original GC game discs. Thank gods for the backwards compatibility!

I know you weren't saying that, I was just cutting to the chase. A lot of people think "OMG! That system has -nothing- at all to play on it! LOLZ!", but that's utter trash. Unless it's nGage. Then it really doesn't, does it? And I agree.. BC is a great tool this generation. Especially in favor of Nintendo and MS, because a lot of people may not have played the games last generation. Unfortunately, of the 3 in the market, only Nintendo got it right(due to the very way the hardware is designed). Having the entire back library of titles available, for a VERY good price(find a pawn shop or something, and you could probably pick 'em up for 5 bucks each.. or a game store trying to clear out titles, might have sales. One up here has one, 25 GC games for $260). Still some games I'm looking for, cheap. Like Zelda:tWW and MP2:Echoes. Eventually, I'll get an X360 and work on the catalog of Xbox 1 titles as well.

To say there is no game worth playing on any given established system, is foolish. But, it amounts to having to decide if it's worth the buy-in price to play it. I'm sure there's going to be tons of great games to play on PS3, but until there's some big changes at Sony, and an even bigger price drop, I personally won't be getting one, and neither will a lot of other people, for either or both of those reasons.

If they buy the new Cruis'n, they're buying worth than mediocre. They're buying a shot to the face and their wife being beaten. At best. http://kotaku.com/gaming/no-no-no/cruisn-is-the-worst+looking-wii-game-ever-292534.php

Or, at least for SM, you could just set the buttons to how you want. I find it does help out, because you can use a trigger for speedboost/run, A for shoot, B for jump, Z for select, and still leaves you with X, Y and a trigger, for aiming up/down and cancel.

The ZM ship is a pirate vessel. Nintendo says the Wrecked Ship is a federation ship. And the Wrecked Ship is supposed to have been there much longer. I say, the proof is in the security drones. They're the same, so it's the same ship.

Anyone else notice a refresh issue on super metroid? The flickering isn't steady, like it was on the SNES, when you take damage or are using an elevator. Edit, hours and hours later... You know, I just noticed something, that flies right in the face of Nintendo, when they say the Wrecked Ship in Super Metroid, isn't the same as the ship you down in Zero Mission. http://members.shaw.ca/SilverStar/Securitydroid.jpg It's the security droid, the same type you deal with several times in the pirate ship at the end of Zero Mission.

So, after I broke down and watched a little of those spoiler videos, the cover actually makes sense.. complete with the 3 Samus images on it. Dark Samus isn't Corrupt Samus. Samus was corrupted by the phazon, but if you watch the good ending of Echoes, you understand just what happened, and where things are going.

The difference is that there's a general embargo on all direct media from the game that isn't given directly by Nintendo, until sometime this week.

So. Because Bigfoot is too slow to, I'll go right ahead and make the massive spoiler post. First hour of MP3:Corruption. Don't watch if you don't want it spoiled. Ripped from Kotaku who ripped it from GoNintendo who ripped it from GamesRadar. http://www.youtube.com/user/TwinIonEngines

Oops, yeah. Mistake. 5 from Nintendo. Still, out of a list of 21 games, that's HUGE 3rd party support.

You know, a friend of mine earlier said there was nothing coming out for Wii that looks like it'd be worth playing, except for the titles from Nintendo. I went over to IGN, looked at the Wii release dates and listed off a small army of games that are worth playing, if not all quite worth owning. Here's the list I came up with, just by the end of this year. MP3: Corruption (Nintendo) Dewy's Adventure (Konami) Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (Aksys Games) MySims (EA) Mercury Meltdown Revolution (Ignition Entertainment) DDR: Hottest Party (Konami) Bleach: Shattered Blade (Sega) Zack & Wiki (Capcom) Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution (D3 Publisher) Battalion Wars II (Nintendo) Guitar Hero III (Red Octane) Fire Emblem (Nintendo) Geometry Wars Galaxies (Sierra) Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) DBZ: Budokai 3 (Atari) NiGHTS (Sega) Nitrobike (Ubisoft) Trauma Center: New Blood (Atlus) Bully: Scholarship Edition (Rockstar Games) Victorious Boxers: Revolution (XSEED games) Smash Bros (Nintendo) Notice that only 4 of those are from Nintendo. Anyone else want to share the games they think would be good, solid, non-party style games, that would be worth at least a good weekend rental, to show people the kind of quality that's set to roll out by the end of the year?

Is it just me, or were the latest videos on the Prime preview channel originally dated for the 19th.. and they just bumped them up to the 20th?

It wasn't exactly subtle. I'm sure we'll see at least one super-powered marine go postal and have a big, important inner dialog with Samus about how it's still just a human being and it's not their fault.. before we crank up the PED and blast the shit out of the poor bastard.

The focus on the marines so far, as well as the other hunters, would almost suggest they intend to create a more.. open, online game, as a spinoff to the core Metroid franchise. Something were MP:Hunters would have been a prototype of the game, but more fleshed out for online play. Maybe they plan on going after the Halo audience after all, when the Prime saga is complete?

I have a feeling you'll be flying around the same world at a few points, rather than simply taking elevators all over the place. Here's hoping for a 60 hour Metroid game!

Says it fixes up some bugs in the shop channel and some freezing errors with the internet. What they mean by that part, is that they plugged the potential FLV hole, which makes me think someone internally came up with a way to unlock the Wii through it.

Uh. There's already another system update. And oddly enough, it sounds like a solution to Azul's problem. o.o

What I'm worried about for Corruption is just.. how much exploration will there -really- be? Will each planet you visit be little more than a single region in each game, but called a planet to make people think it's bigger.. or will they actually be fairly fleshed out, at least half the size of the area of Metroid Prim 1? With Samus starting out fully powered up, I'm worried there won't be a whole lot of actual exploration and revisiting, since you won't have to go back later, to hunt for all the missiles and whatnot. Unless they pull something cheesy and cause her to overload sometime after the first area, so you lose all your missiles and energy tanks and have to go back to reclaim them. Again. Better that, than having to start fresh with no upgrades at all, I suppose..

Given the blueprint layout at the end.. That was the Mother Brain chamber. But, keep in mind, Prime is after the original/Zero Mission, which means Samus has already taken on an Aurora unit as Mother Brain. And since all the units are linked.. oshit.