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Now, onto things that don’t cause me to spaz my retard alert…

OMG Rockband 2. Rockband 2 OMG. I love this game. I spent probably $250 on it total, thus far. There’s just too many good goddamn downloadable songs! And there’s at least $50 more that I want, but I am going to be good and not get them for a few weeks. Might as well perfect the ones I have.

Onto the Wii…

It’s been said 1000 times that the Wii isn’t in the next-gen console wars. I have to agree. It’s in a standalone competition by itself.

Nintendo is always up for the challange of being different, and succeeding every time. My only real complaints are due to the fact that if you are playing a precision game, it can become quite difficult.

I started playing Trauma Center: Second Opinion. Best I can tell, it is a remake of the DS version of Trauma Center. Fun ass game on the DS, even though I got to a level that was absolutely unbeatable and never finished it, I still had a blast when I COULD play. Unfortunately, I’m a slightly shaky person, and because of that, some of the stuff that was simple and scoring me “A’s” on the ds, are scoring me a “C” … disappointing.

The actual decision on getting the Wii though, was for the emulator and gamecube compatability. I mean, had we went out and bought all of the systems it actually supports, we’d have spent WELL over what the Wii costs.

I don’t know about you, but I loved quite a few Gamecube games, and am quite pleased that I will finally get to play Baten Kaitos. (It was my white whale. When I COULD find it, it was damaged, but finding it was rare indeed.) And I will also get to beat BOTH Paper Mario games.

Also, the Wii is going to be my new Workout machine. Instead of spending thousands on a workout thingy just for it to take up gobs of space in my already limited bubble, I put money down on Wii Fitness (not to be confused w/ the $90 Wii Fit). It doesn’t come out till May, but goddammit, I am GOING to use this thing to get in shape.

So there you have it. Yes, the Wii is pretty nifty in it’s own right, but is it in direct competition with Sony and Microsoft? Not a chance. It appeals to a totally different audience even.

The Wii targets families, kids and casual gamers, and whereas the 360 and ps3 wouldn’t mind having a slice of that pie, they just can’t justify coming out w/ games that are essentially Tamagatichi’s for kittens/puppies/horses/whatever.

Really? Well, I mean, it makes sense, since the xBox live network is being calculated solely on xBox 360 accounts, and the playstation network is an all encompassing set of numbers for both Playstation 3 and PSP.

I’m pretty sure that means that yes, Playstation may be doing better on raw signups, but does that necessarily mean their networks are better?

Here’s just a couple of differences of the pros vs both networks:

PSN pros:

* Free
* Utilized for both PSP and PS3

XBL pros:

* Exclusive downloadable content for games that AREN’T xBox exclusive games
* Exclusive demos for games that AREN’T xBox exclusive games
* Netflix integration

Yes, xBox live costs money, but with that money they are able to negotiate exclusive DLC, along with other major points of content interest such as the netflix deal.

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather pay a whole $50 a year for something that will get used on a daily, or semi daily basis; has excellent uptime; offers unique content, than get a ps3 where I personally don’t know of a single game that is exclusive that I would enjoy enough to justify paying $400 for a console.