Wii is a Limited Console Says Microsoft

doesnt he mean its a limited multimedia device? as a console i think it does what it says on the tin.

I own a Wii and a 360 (got rid of the PS3) and I have to admit given the features the Wii has like the online voting, weather, news and Mii channels and the fact that it does have games I actually want to play its great to have a Wii60 combo.

Given that there arent a huge amount of games I want on the Wii it certainly has more than the PS3 I used to own. I have Res Evil 4, Umbrella Chronicles and the Wii Zapper might get Metroid Prime 3 at some point. Also have owned and played Zelda on the Wii which was superb as well.

Microsoft need to stop the digging at the Wii then prasing it, the Wii definently has non-gamers hooked and new-comers to gaming hooked so what I think Microsoft are trying to say is that they hope these new gamers will then look to get an Xbox 360 as well at some point for gaming.

Funny isnt it, a year ago, Sony and MS both saying Wii`s in diff market and its great at what it is, now there are saying it is console and its limited.

Wii is limited in respect of controls, Devs need to use the wiir emote and nunchuck in new and exceiting ways which they arent, and as such is limiting the volume of good games avalible, but if some care and attention some style and art and some love and kindness was placed into the consoles games then they too would see nintendo style sales.

The future is simply PS3 or 360 & Wii, Wii pull out for partys for fun and games with family and freinds and occasional hardcore Zelda / Metroid / Mario sessions the PS3 and 360 will be the Dominant Consoles for `GAMING`, the Wii will be what it is a family entertainment unit, the competition this time round is the 360 and PS3 as everyone will own a Wii eventually, and if you dont own one by 2010 kelloggs will be giving them away in special packs of Cornflakes and Frosties.

to SS nowhere does he dig the Wii, he points out that Wii & 360 should live together not one or the other, and its a veiw pretty much all harcore gamers are adopting, infact yourself i believe own a Wii and a 360, (after selling your PS3 in what will be the Year of the PS3?) so you back up his comments nicely.

Limited console? A phrase about pots and kettles springs to mind. The 360 is massively limited by the foolish decision to stick with DVD (in order, as we now know, to rush it to market to get one up on Sony). Wii does what it says it does, and does it well enough to be the console of choice for kids, families and parties. PS3 will be the console for the true gamers, and the 360 will die due to limitations, poor design, and overall just being t**tty.

Look at that man's evil smug face. I wouldn't buy a newspaper from him, let alone a console. He's so obviously pure evil. Obviously.

To whom is it the year of the PS3? What around 3 titles that are big names? Whilst I can name many more on the Xbox 360, I rather have my £425 back than to wait on 1 game that interests me and that was FF13 since many PS only games are now appearing on the 360 I dont see the point.

Xbox 360's online potential in gaming and content supercedes any other gaming platform.

it depends on how you look at it as i have stated people who play wii enjoy playing the wii as it is instant gratification (e.g the casual gamer) or people who own somthing els like 360, ps3, pc.
if microsoft were to be senible well brave and this has been said before and it apples to ps3 as well they need to drop the price of there hardware £179.99 vs £249.99 you no who going to win its one of the the BIG problems with the ps3 bar the lack of games £299.99 vs £249.99 also the 360 if you look at its ordnance its manly used buy what i class as the hardcore gamer that dose not want to f**k about with settings so he/she can play the game

The Xbox 360 price point and the PS3 price point are perfectly set as they are, think about what you get in the 360 hardware wise and then the PS3 hardware wise they both different greatly in some ways but when it comes down to games then you can see the differences more clearly, last gen it was clear the PS2 had tons more games and exclusives and Xbox had all the power but limited games but great online but many were still not buying into Xbox.

This gen its the other way around, many are buying into the Xbox 360 and it offers a great number of games as well.

The Wii approach is just a different way of playing with simple hardware, if anything it is the Wii that is overpriced considering a Core 360 can be purchased for around £195 with a memory card and some arcade games and has HD cables and is far more advanced than the Wii.

But you just look at the size of the Wii, its design, its features, its Wiimote and you just have to buy one.

"Limited"?! Oh yes, it's certainly limited...to one per customer due to insane demand!

Microsofts PR tactics against the Wii seem to have degenerated from 'it's not a competitor' to 'look at me, look at me!'.

Lol, isn't this kind off rich for a company that makes faulty consoles? 33% gone down to 10%, it should be no percent at all, I mean the Wii is fun, yes it lacks the "Hardcore" games, But i don't see why you need to literally wank over games to enjoy them -cough- 360 owners-cough- But its still going well.

With the 360 M$ basically copied the Game Cube design. Used IBM for the CPU, ATI for the GPU, created a controller with a Game Cube style (coloured buttons, same labels (A, B, X, Y). Too bad they tried to compete with Sony for the hardcore as PlayStation has always and will always be for the hardcore. M$ should just try to write some decent software and forget hardware. If 20+ years of virus ridden engineering and design hasn't taught them a thing (see Vista???) how can a few years of hardware design? M$, if they were smart would just license Live to other consoles until Home is ready, then game over for Live. Maybe too late for that now.

WTF, this is the most stupid of ramblings ever, copied the Gamecube? Completely WTF!, how is the controller anything like the game cubes?, the gamecube doesnt have anything incommon with 360, OMG i dont even want to go on, its quite possibly the most supid fanboy comment ever posted on spong! SS4 you are god in comparison to this guy!

Haritori, Old Gamer is actually onto something here.

I don't think its any coincedence that MS switched from their previous Xbox chip manufactuer to ATI who worked with Nintendo's GC chip. MS obviously saw something in what GC was doing that could benefit them for 360 (either that or it was a quick fix, due to the chip fall out crap they had to deal with). And GC had a lot of great looking games, on par with or better than Xbox (RE4 is a damn good example). 360 also has traits of DC design which MS have said themselves.

Xbox 360, in response to this news piece is, is in a good position. I really don't see why MS can't enjoy that and the fact Wii has beat them to number one spot in half the time, that 360 has been out. ''Take a slice of humble crumble Mr Gates, it tastes good being in the middle and still doing well, doesn't it?''

MS shouldn't feel the need to react like monkeys to the sight of bananas. Leave that job to Sony, because while PS3 is the hot s**t space shuttle, its still being left on the roadside, like a horses pile, devoid of decent games and too many films. Its Sony that are in trouble.

Say a small prayer that Nintendo are actually there, to keep Sony from taking that No.1 spot. MS would certainly be worse off without Nintendo.

The reason Microsoft switched to ATI is simple; NVIDIA and Microsoft had a falling out and when you're talking GPUs, there really is only one other company to talk to.

Remember, MS and ATI will have had a working relationship due to Windows and Direct X, The XBox 360 team didn't need to see GC graphics, they'd seen PC graphics from ATI for years.