I'd just like to say thanks to everyone agreeing with my post and/or expanding upon it. I also appreciate Mozgus popping back in to reply. For this post, I'm just going to focus on posts with opposing viewpoints.
EvilRyu2099 wrote:VC is awesome in the Wii and Wii U.. One of the few things I enjoy the most about each console..
Keep in mind with this post, I'm just talking about the Wii here.
The Virtual Console is a lackluster set of emulators that I would have to pay for. I'm not getting anything out of paying for the VC. The games are locked to the console and the emus don't seem any better than what I can get for the PC. Hell, there's homebrew emulators for the Wii that perform about the same as the VC.
And to be fair, yes it sucks that Sony slowly removed BC, but tbh they needed to lower the cost of manufacturing each console.. Blu-Ray burnt a giant hole in their budget..
I found it frustrating that backwards compatibility had such a slow and painful demise. Also, I think the compensation for the money lost on Blu-Ray kinda shows the disadvantage of having a conglomerate make games/consoles. If one aspect of the giant plan is failing, another part has to be changed. Often for the worse.
ZenErik wrote:Despite all this doom and gloom coming from Racketboy I fully expect console sales this generation to be just as good as the last. Well actually, probably higher all combined.
I realize that you're not talking about me specifically, but I'd just like to say that I have little doubt that the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 will be successful. As much as I hate it, having Microsoft portray their console as more of a multimedia machine will probably be a major boon to the company.
Violent By Design wrote:As for my opinion on the last consoles (360/PS3/Wii), I don't really get why people get so bent out of shape in regards to the multmedia aspect. There's really no reason for your console not to be able to do multiple things.
I'm not against game consoles being able to do more than one thing. Film viewing and music playback goes with video gaming very well. It's mostly the non-media stuff that bothers me.
Personally, I don't see what you guys are doing with your consoles. I have a 360, Wii and PS3. When I want to play a game, I put the game in, and I play it. I'm confused to how this is any different from any of my other consoles.
I'm aware that there are settings for the X360 and PS3 that let you boot up a game as soon as it's inserted into the console, but the fact that you still have to go through the Operating System to load the game, adding a small amount of wait time makes it a little different.
I never get any advertisements nor am I forced to update anything (or even asked since I don't have Xbox Live anymore).
You're running an older version of the Xbox 360 software then since on the new OS almost every home screen has a tile devoted to advertising. Also, you'd be required to update if you used any of the multimedia functions like Netflix.
The only things that would even need updates are online games, in which why wouldn't you update?
Not true. I had to update Strania which is primarily a single player game and Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction had a game breaking bug in its initial version so I had to install the update for that ASAP.
