Nintendo Obscenitii

Yes I made fun of the Nintendo Wii in my title. Haha? Not really.

I'm just confused as to why Nintendo would allow the Wii to have such incredibly lackluster online services, when Microsoft's Live service is absolutely astounding. Honestly.

It does the whole Virtual Console thing (although lacking actual old school titles), but to a better degree. Wondering how Street Fighter II will play on your 360? Download the trial version. For free. Right away. Play it. You don't need to look for reviews telling you about the game itself. You don't need someone else to explain the emulation issues, if any. You just get the limited version of the game, play it, and you can decide whether it's worth your money. Simple.

What do I have to do on Wii's Virtual Console? If I so much as want to try it, I have to buy it. Simple. And whilst there may be a lot of good games on there, I'm not about to throw down some cash just to test it. I wish I could get demos for it like I can on Live. Yeah I know some people will say "ROMs," but that's hardly the point. It'd just be nice to try before I buy =| same goes for Wii games!

It just makes me think of, like... In the world of video game speed runs, people usually come up with techniques. Now, the bulk of the time, they will share these techniques with the community, so that other players can learn them, and possibly improve their times and so on. Whilst it is a competition to see who is the best, it's still interesting for them to see if someone can do it faster. Why can't Nintendo take a page out of the book of Microsoft, and upgrade their online.

The service is there for them to see. What it does, and so on. The services of Live could be adapted by Nintendo in an effort to have a more robust online package - because right now it does not. Although I will say one thing, and that is at the moment Nintendo couldn't improve its online even if it wanted to. There are storage concerns to be met, and as the Wii stands currently, it just doesn't have enough. I've gotten quite a lot of content for my 360 in the past few days. Gigs in fact. And the HDD is still more than capable of holding some more stuff. All the Wii has is 512mb =/ so for the moment, the Wii is being shut down big time due to its lack of download-able content.

I guess if Nintendo doesn't have some kind of plan to release a HDD expansion for it soon, I'll be tempted to get Guitar Hero 2+3 on the 360 - if only for all the extra song packs. GH2 alone has something like 7 packs, with 4 or so songs each. It seems crazy that the Wii version of the game is missing out on 20 or 30 possible extra songs. But oh well.

I bought Gears of War today. It was cheap. And man is this game good =D I'll probably talk about it more later. It's very late and I should sleep some time soon ~_~;;

PS: I got a bunch of free map packs for GoW, talk about an awesomely robust service. Live is ridiculously good. As for the Wii store... Sorrii, but it isn't good enough =/