Official Wii thread

Check IGN's video blogs, most of the editors agree that Wii won the show. Also check the blogs at IGN, they usually have the impression that the Wii won.

Right, so if they all agreed at IGN that the Wii won, why did it only get 3 of the awards and I want quotes, prove what you're saying for once don't just make claims. The only reason anyone would be impressed with the Wii is because expectations would be at ground level.

"Winning the show" might have been a bit biased on my part, but I posted this in a hurry since I had to watch some television in a hurry. However, it is clear that a lot of the video game editors are showing interest.

Ok fine, I'll find you all the quotes.

I'll start with the easy one, Matt Cassamassina, since he's the editor for IGN N64 -> Cube -> Wii

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/708/708558p1.html

"Nintendo hasn't always blown us away at E3. There have been some years we'd like to forget and we'd be willing to bet that folks from the Big N itself would agree with our sentiments. But as far as success stories go, E3 2006 belonged to the company. It had the hardware, the games, and the attitude, and we aren't merely stating so because we're the Nintendo editors. Just click on our Day 3 show wrap and you'll see that nearly every IGN editor queried is in agreement that the Big N took this year's event.

Really, how could it not? The Wii-mote performed exactly as Nintendo promised, opening up a new avenue for simpler, more intuitive games. Wii Sports Baseball was both graphically primitive and mechanically basic. And yet, the process of swinging a virtual bat with the Wii-mote was undeniably fun and entertaining in a manner completely impossible with a traditional controller. In a matter of minutes, using Nintendo's new pointer seemed almost second nature, as a round or two with its astonishing new platformer, Super Mario Galaxy, easily demonstrated. The company's revolutionary remote and by association the Wii console earned my pick for hardware of the show, besting Sony's far more powerful, but relatively uneventful PlayStation 3. "

OK, now moving on to IGN comics editor Hil-IGN

http://blogs.ign.com/Hil-IGN/ (he says "Wii wins")

OK, now moving on to the video blog I was talking about

http://media.games.ign.com/articles/693 ... ids_1.html

Watch day 3. The majority says Nintendo won, not just the Nintendo editors. For those of you who won't bother to play the video, which will be the majority, the editors who say this are: Doug Perry (editor for XBOX), the Wii editors, Chris Carle says it's a tie between Nintendo and Xbox, Erik Brudvig IGN guides editor, David Clayman (editor in chief) says that Nintendo showed that the controller works.

Moving on to Gamespot awards.

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6151435/p-10.html

The key here is not the quantity of awards, but Wii won best hardware, and this comment is important:
"While not completely flawless, the Wii-mote performed well enough to turn several GameSpot editors into believers. With fully functional hardware, it's no surprise that the Wii was the hit of the show. Attendees queued up in four-hour lines just to get into the Wii display area, and waited in even more lines to try out various games in development. "

More postive comments from Gamespot editors:
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6151046/p-2.html
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6151046/p-3.html

Some aren't too crazy about it, but the general impression is very positive.

The video of the line, if you haven't seen it yet:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/profile/v ... TGo5bsMsz4

Peter Moore recommending the Wii:
http://revolution.ign.com/articles/707/707831p1.html

The reason why Wii did not sweep the individual awards is because they had 27 playable games, but a lot of them were not complete, only showing little portions of the game. Furthermore, a lot of the booth's games such as Duck Hunt, Tennis, and what not were only demos trying to show the capability of the Wii controller. Only a few of them were launch titles (around 8?). Hey, at least it's better than PS3 and 0 playable demos. Anyhow, they succeeded in what they set out to do, which was to show the potential of the controller, and a lot of people agreed, as you can see by those lines. BTW, even if you went inside, there were queues of 50+ people per game for the big franchises. In other words, there were tons of people playing inside the booth, Nintendo wasn't purposely limiting the amount of the booth to make it seem like there were only a few people. How do I know? I have a friend who went to E3. Since you won't believe me, I'll show you a pic that's likely not available elsewhere:

http://static.flickr.com/46/147231120_c ... 73.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/51/147230687_6 ... 31.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/48/147230723_7 ... 4a.jpg?v=0

(Notice there's that same booth person on both pics...I could post more if you still don't believe me.)

That's interesting... I don't understand why they'd give it such a great review, but only throw 3 awards to it ... 2 for the controller alone. To be completely honest though, any game that's hanging its hat on Super Smash Bros won't get my respect. The control is a gimmick, people will get over it eventually I'd imagine. Thanks for actually backing up your claims though.

Did you read any of the links jae? lol

Yes, why?

11 links in one thread.. it just looked more like a ben bailey politics post than one about nintendo wii.

That sort of puts it into perspective. Bangs post has more "under the hood" than the console in question...

yeah I thought it was a bit extensive, but I figured since I asked for it I should at least read. Though I don't really buy his explanation for the lack of awards.

Well, I didn't want to get destroyed in another flame war like before, so I sort of overdid it.

I read in the newspaper today that the Wii won't cost more than $330 AUD. That's fucking awesome. I might even pre-order mine.

i am bumping this thread because im typing this on the Wii internet browser thingy...

yes, im proud

Did you plug in a keyboard to do it?

METROID PRIME THREE CORRUPTION OF COMPLETE AWSUMNESS NEXT WEEK.

I've never been anticipating a game more. I don't know if it can top God of War II, but it'll be close for game of the year.

nope Wii-Moted it. I am loving it as just a casual thing right now and not for "hard core" games. I got Wii-Sports (ive done the Fitness thing everyday) WiiPlay, Big Brain, then Resident Evil 4 (I needed blood). Then for VC I downloaded Super Mario 64, Super Mario World and ExciteBike. Oh and my gf got me NBA Live 2003 for the gamecube for laughs.