I had read an article yesterday from a Yahoo! blogger who claimed the Wii was just a fad. (He forgot to mention that it’s a sold out console that’s tough to find on the shelf.)
One of the reasons he said it was a fad was because most people played only Wii Sports and nothing else (which, is that a bad habit?) and that the true measure of a system is in how many games it offers. (Although I saw at a swap meet a system that boasted 5000 games in one cartridge that didn’t hold true to the quality test.)
I, for one, think that there needs to be more games available on the Wii. The nice thing about my PS2 is that I can find quite a bit of games. BUT what I found myself doing was buying a couple of games for $10-$20 but not saving up for an actually good game (a couple of Black and Bruised/Starsky and Hutch instead of Metal Gear Solid 3 (yes, feel free to mock my short-sightedness))
So with a giant selection of games, I’m wondering how many truly are stellar. I have a Wii, my brother has a PS3, but neither of us have an XBOX 360. Since it’s so foreign to us, and yet Yahoo! says XBOX will dominate the Wii fad, I’m wondering how many stellar games can be picked out.
Below is a collection of screenshots from popular XBOX360 FPS games, at least according to a Google search.
Try to identify which game is represented by each screenshot.
Click for a zoomed in view.
I will post the answers later. I’m wondering if it will be a battle of
Quantity
over
Quality
Semi-related posts:
This article seemed relevant. From the article: “Last week was Nintendo’s best since the Wii’s launch, with 350,000 sold in the United States alone. In comparison, Microsoft sold about that many Xbox 360s last month.”
I’ve read the same comments on the Wii. But alot of the people I’ve read it from seem to be the same sort of people who can’t fathom why anyone would be playing on a system that isn’t the absolute cutting edge of graphic processing power. They don’t seem to understand (or care) that someone might be interested in new type of game play over shiny pixels.
Of course, these are frequently XBox fanboys (ugh) who won’t admit there’s anything even halfway acceptable about any other console, and that the PS3 is a complete and total financial failure. Part of why I try to follow what I’ve designated as Rule #1 on the internet: Don’t read the comments. It’s never worth the trouble.
I love this part:
“‘I’ve never seen anything like this,’ says Michael Pachter, a videogame industry analyst with Wedbush Morgan Securities”
Yeah.
They are also true about stalking the UPS driver.