What of the Wii-buked?

February 23, 2007 D. H. McKee

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Nintendo has been on an Apple-like hit parade since the disappointing market performance of the GameCube. The DS and DS Lite handily staved off highly touted competition from Sony. The PSP may have appealed to a different, if for now narrower, demographic, but units are units, and there’s no escaping them when you’re marketing a platform.
The launch of the Wii has been nothing but magic mushrooms from the hype around the controller to the E3 reception to late-night Wii Tennis face-offs between Conan and Serena Williams. Check out this apologetic fan comment on Amazon’s product page: “Graphics might not be high definition, but it looks very close to the Xbox 360 and PS3 when not running in HD mode. And definitively better than the original Xbox and PS2.” Better than the Xbox and PS2, eh? That’s setting the sensor bar pretty low for a system that shipped six years after the PS2.
Switched On: What of the Wii-buked? – Engadget

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