Can't try that game

[Something Amyss]

Yes, it provides incentive to buy a console, but there is nothing that would make me get one.

Since Zelda titles are major console movers, I don't think they'll miss you at all.

There's that whole "risk/reward" thing. They can move a ton of consoles by keeping Zelda exclusive or pander to an uncertain base that may not care.

 

[GrandmaFunk]

And anyone who buys a wii between now and the release of the next generation of consoles is old and doesnt know what a console generation is.

or rather: is old enough to know exactly what a console generation is, and why buying one toward the end of it's lifecycle is better than buying one on release.

ps: it's 2011, "old" ppl know more about gaming than young ppl do, we've been into it for 20+ years afterall

 

[Siyano_v1legacy]

It isn't really grammar that was my problem. Many of the words are placed badly and a good bit of it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sure, I know what he was talking about, that wasn't hard to figure out. But when words are placed so badly it can easily confuse people and send the wrong message, which is why it's bad. Simple grammar problems often don't have that problem.

If he knows English well, then he should be ashamed because he should be able to at least put the right words in the right spots. Even people with bad grammar usually do that.

Anyway, I'll tell you what I suck at. Math. I don't know everything about anything, but math is what I suck at the most. Math and directions. I also can't tell you where the hell I'm going. And yes, lacking in both of those is not a good thing.

Well I'm sorry for my grammar, I lack writing in english, I always try my best to make myself understandable and please note that english is not my first language!

Well I guess it all about choosing which console and because of its exclusive, too bad WII does not have enough of them for me to spend more than 50$ for it.
Can you say they lose a sale.

I'll try to answer Zach concern about my question
I think my first idea is to create a console that will have some restrictiveness such as, "Can only play for certain time", "Prevent the use of online" or such.
But I don't think it feasible or that the company will take the hassle to cater to the few people that don't buy their console because of the price vs the number of game they want on it

 

[ElPatron]

I kind of had the same feeling with my PS2.

However, everything I think really hard on it I remember that even with few games of my own, I borrowed a lot of them and I don't regret it.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Oldest problem in gaming.

Honestly, it'd be great if this didn't happen, but that's highly unrealistic. Exclusives exist for a reason, and they've been used as a weapon by just about everyone that has a gaming platform of any description at one point or another.

Of course, a game like Zelda was built around the abilities of the Wii.

If they had designed it with cross-platform design in mind it probably would have been designed differently.

Having a very specific target system has it's advantages in the end result. Cross-platform titles inevitably either work best on a specific system, contain design compromises, or both.

 

[isometry]

Look at it this way: graphics on the Wii are already a bit out of date, so it will be just as good to play Skyward Sword 5 years from now when Nintendo re-releases it on a platform you might own.

I sure wish Nintendo would release an official Wii/Gamecube emulator for PC and let us buy games for it. The technology is obviously there, and if we could buy Nintendo games on Steam I think N would make a ton of money. Looking at where Sega has ended up, I'm hopeful that Nintendo's post-N64 catalog might end up legally available on PC in the next decade.