What's interesting is that Nintendo decided to not give it HDTV support eventhough around 50% of Wii users claim to have a widescreen TV (theoretically HDTV or at least EDTV). But I don't want to bring that up again.

I was out with two of my friends who live far away but with whom I game often and one of them mentioned that the only reason he plays on his (original) Xbox is for the social aspect of Xbox Live. He's upgrading to the 360 because no other console has his friends on it (and/or the Wii has no real online). We all agreed that the Wii is a lot of fun but only with other people around. The Gamecube enticed me based on a lot of the party games they had: DK Bongo, etc. But if I ever had a crowd of people over, they weren't the kind that would want to play it.

I have to admit I got my money's worth with my Wii. I played it more in the first two months than any other console before it. I'm definitely picking up Galaxy this fall. But I'm hoping that there will be some "Aha!" moments with developers and we'll see some really cool inventive stuff in 2008.

To be fair that poll on the voting channel for widescreen TVs was 50% because of Europe. The US still had the majority with standard TVs.

I still consider HD gaming the most overhyped thing out there. I have enjoyed my PS2 games on my PS3 a lot more than any of the real HD games I have played on it. I rented MLB07 for PS3 and it really wasn't that much better of an experience over the PS2 version.

FPS games benefit the most from HD, but if the gameplay in Metroid Prime 3 is solid it really won't matter that the game is SD.

what kind of TV are you playing your HD gaming on? I can't understand how it could be over hyped

No kidding.

i mean, I enjoyed my games on my SD 35" TV, but good GOD did it make a difference playing 360 on my 47" LCD.

Shit, I went to play my Wii last night and it wouldn't turn on. I tried both my remotes and pressing the console power button. The light was in "stand-by" but it wouldn't turn on.

Shit! My heart started beating....After having to send my 360 in(video related not Red ring related) I'm just a tad skittish when it comes to console failure. I ended up pulling the power cord out, waiting a few moments, and plugging it back in. It came on after that.

Anyone else have this happen? It only happened this one time and I doubt it anything major, but who knows.....

nah, never heard of anything like that before.



but I did get to try out Alien Syndrome for the Wii yesterday

It's still 480p and widescreen, right? If so, I'm fine with that.

I've had my Wii lock-up once like that in standby. It scared me too, but hasn't happened since. It was several months ago now.

That's happened to me twice now, but each time I just unplug the system and everything works perfectly fine after that. I had to do that with my PS2 every once in awhile as well, so it didn't really worry me too much... and for the record that PS2 (launch system and everything) is still going strong.

Had the same thing happen twice, I think. Took the same method to resolve it, as well.

I'm still having the 3 minute black screen after booting things up.

Super Metroid with a side of Shinobi III. Oh yeah!

So can anyone tell me about Shinobi 3, and how it compares with the other Shinobis, and if it's worth getting?

wow, that game looks cool


thanks Pixy

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Ne...query=NINTENDO

Chris

50% of Wii users is still 50% of Wii users. I thought it was funny that Colombia (IIRC)had a higher % of widescreen TVs than the US. If you knocked out the US, the average would be above 60% I would imagine. There was a lot of heavy HDTV penetration with Wii gamers in Europe (mostly northern Europe) and Asia.

Also, 1 out of 5 people think money is more important than love.

I remember Revenge of Shinobi being better.

Bear in mind that widescreen != HDTV. While widescreen has a high penetration in the UK, for instance, not all of those televisions are HD.

Most people are lying. They would rather have money than love.

Chris

5 out of 5 people love money.

You know what I'd love? The ability to shoot VC games over to my DS (similar to what you could do with Animal Crossing and the GBA).

"Gold makes the world go round."
"Some people say love."
"Well, they're right, too. It is love. Love of gold."

"Money makes the world go 'round. Those who don't think so, don't have money".

Gene Simmons??