Sea of Joy

[whereismymind]

Systems always go through dry spells. There are times when nothing good is being released. The PS2, Game cube and even the 360 are going through one right now. You'll forget about your system for a couple months until the next Mario game comes out.

I thought that the Xbox 360 would have a cure for that with the Xbox-live arcade. I thought they would have a constant stream of decent small games that could keep you busy, but I was proven wrong. Sure there where some fun games like geometry wars but not enough to keep you occupied while you wait for a real game.

The PS3 and Wii are doing the same thing. They'll have an online arcade with games "from developers with a bigger imagination than budget" that you can download, but if they follow in the same steps as the 360, it will still leave us with boring dry spells where we wait for something good.

Now this is when I get to the point of the thread. The ability to download a large library of games from any previous system for the Nintendo Wii will make it so that there are no dry spells. Nobodies played all the good NES/SNES/N64/Turbo Grafix/Sega Master System games, so during the dry spells, instead of waiting for the next good game, you can play the older games which are still classics.

Think of it like this, you will probably get bored with your 360. You will probably get bored with your PS3 but you will not get bored of your Wii. Because of the constant stream of classic games there's no way the Wii will get boring.

And before anyone brings up "I can always play those old games on emulators" let me say something. The games you will be able download can't cost that much money for Nintendo to convert to the Wii, so they will most likely be very cheap. Besides it will be nice to play the games like they where meant to, on a full sized TV with a controller.

I’ve sold my Xbox because I grew tired of it. I’ve forgotten about my Game Cube and my PS2 because of lack of games. But the Wii will have a constant flow of downloadable games that are good. It will not gather dusts like my other systems because of this.

[soso0901]

Systems always go through dry spells. There are times when nothing good is being released. The PS2, Game cube and even the 360 are going through one right now.

I'm not sure what you mean by "dry spell". Xbox just had Hitman come out last week, and Table Tennis came out 2 weeks ago. PS2 also just had Hitman, and GTA: Liberty Cities came out like today. Unless you get bored with games in like 2 days, I'd think these would be enough to keep you entertained. I agree that the Gamecube doesn't have any cool new releases, but I also think that it's kind of on it's last legs with the Wii's release looming in the near future.

[whereismymind]

By Dry spell I mean nothing special coming out. I forgot about Table Tennis, that's a good game but Hitman isn't really anything special in my opinion. It's fun but I can beat games like that in a couple days and forget about them.

Liberty cities is just another GTA game. Played it on the PSP and it didn't feel like it was that great.

We could argue if the games are special but that's beside the point. If you think the 360 isn't lacking in good games right now that's your opinion, but it will eventually.

I guess it's different for me. I grew tired of my PS2 and GC because there aren't any games that really make my head turn anymore. They do still have a few games coming out however that are going to be good.

I like when games leave an impression on me and lately the only game I've played that's done that would have to be Table Tennis.

I guess my original post may of been hard to understand but what I was trying to say is that all the systems are going to have some great games on realease and afterwards. But there will be periods where there will be very few games that I could qualify as "special". And it's these periods that turn me away from gaming.

What I was saying is that because the Wii has the downloadable services, once I get bored of the currently released games I can go through the archives of games for download and play them until another good game comes out.

[LuckyCharms]

i'm just been playing dreamcast and gamecube (Resdint Evil!! part 1 and four!) yes i spelled it wrong :(

thinking of hooking the xbox in the van becasue its just making dust and when it takes long to go to a place and come back home ican be playing a game while in the van so hey :D

i got a PS1 on ebay and it should come in 2 days or tomorow i think icant wait because theres a game i wanna beat if you want the name tell me its a rare game.

i forgot what i'm talking about what is this thread? :ahhh: