Whats Wrong With Wii

This is going to be a brief musing on what i think would improv the wii. I knowi just ranted about sony presuming that the 'hard core gamer' wants a media hub and i dont think that is the case and I may have used the words "How many people use their ps2 as a DVD player?" How ever I do think that the Wii could have done with having a DVD player in it. My thinking behind this is that the Wii is so compact and it looks so much prettier than my DVD player, it would be nice. It would also give the Wii another chance in the day to glow blue.

My second thought for this week on how to improve the Wii is to change the virtual console a little bit. I think its a really cool idea having all these old games ready to downlaod and I have dowloaded a few but I think that Nintendo are putting too much faith in people wanting to experoence retro joy, which for me is not the case. For example I know i loved Ocarina Of Time but I never want to spend 40hours of my life playing it again. What they should be using the virtual console for is new content. The Wii continualy shows that it can make mini games fun again so why not stick some on the virtual console. Its working for Microsoft so why cant Nintendo do it? Also I think that the virtual console or at least a channel should be available that allows players to demo games, for old style gamers that are used to button pushin, getting their heads around the fact that movement is the new way to play can be hard to get their head around. To solve this all Nintendo need to do is stick a demo on each week for that games release so people can test out the wiimote with that particular game and se if they like it and if it works. This has been working for the PS3 its various demos are getting a stupid amount of downloads.

Also this week it finally filtered down to me the n ews of Resident Evil 4 on the Wii, this seems to say cash in to me. Who are Capcom trying to sell this game too, any Nintendo fan who has a Wii probably had a Gamecube and who had a Gamecube with out Resident Evil 4? (I know that was a whole lot of presumption but stay with me here.) I love this game but it makes me a little sad that developers are already porting games from the Gamecube onto the Wii and its this young, it adds to the thoughts that I have been having that developers dont believe that the Wii is going to be a success and are tossing out lazy ports and lazy versions of games. This thinking started when I started playing Sonic and the Secret Ring and I realised that instea of FMV sequences to tell the story they had gone for a comic strip look (which is also being used in Eledees) and then they rub salt in the wound by letting you unlock gorgeous CGI sequences which make you think I wonder how i would feel about this game if this is what was telling me the story.

These are my thoughts for this week.