Obscurities- E3 Day 2 part 1
E3 Day 2- Nintendon’t
Well I don’t own a Wii and was planning on buying a DS, but I do play my friend’s Wii. It has a few decent games, and more coming out, Wario and Chocobo Dungeon come to mind. However, Nintendo’s E3 showing was a shit on the face of hardcore/intermediate gamers. Wii Sports 2 sword fighting and Animal Crossing sums up the only good things presented. They made a big deal out of mediocre games like Pokemon Rangers and Rayman. GTA for the DS is okay in concept, but I don’t know how well it work out, I suppose I can hope for the best.
Their biggest announcement as they put it is Wii Music, which in theory sounded great, until they stated that you just push buttons and it plays itself. It’s like Communist Guitar Hero, no skill, no gameplay, In Soviet Russia Sax plays you! This is a toy, they make these for little kids, to push buttons and pretend they are playing music, except slap in more instruments, multi-player and Nintendo music.
On top of that the rest of the presentation Nintendo was singing their own praises, including stating they are at the top of the software sales, which they are technically only through counting Wii-Sports in bundled format. Non-bundled software, Nintendo is equal to Sony in games sold and half of what the 360 has sold.
