Posts Tagged ‘Nintendo Wii’
Friday, October 16th, 2009
To say I have a love / hate relationship with my Xbox 360 is an understatement. It gives me great pleasure by offering a platform to play amazing exclusives on, not to mention an easy way to connect to friends while playing these amazing exclusives. But it also has a very evil side, which I’ve been discovering on a daily basis recently.
My console refuses to read discs. All discs. Even though there are zero scratches on these discs. My console requires to be booted up three times before the game actually begins, simply because my console enjoys freezing on various parts of the process (the Xbox logo, the dashboard, the game etc). My console prompts for discs to be inserted, despite there already being a disc inside. Give it up, Xbox! Can’t you just work?
I’m on my third Xbox 360, which, given the fact I’ve been gaming on the Xbox for 4 years is a poor, poor figure. Especially as the above symptoms suggest I may well be heading into 4th RRoD territory. This time I’m not going to threaten I’ll jump ship because I now own a PS3, and I certainly won’t be trading anything in for a Wii, but I will be very angry at myself for remaining loyal to Microsoft. I’ll be even angrier towards them for being, well, shit. I dream of the day Apple make gaming consoles (I kid, I kid).
Tags: Microsoft, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3, RRoD
Posted in Asides | 13 Comments »
Monday, December 15th, 2008
I don’t usually find myself watching The HipHopGamer Show, mainly because hip hop isn’t my scene. Now if it was called The SillySkaDancingGamer Show, I might tune in a little more often. Regardless, their latest episode caught my eye because of the title ‘Microsoft Slowing Down? Sony Stays Hardcore While Xbox Test The Casual Market‘. It’s something I’ve found occupying my mind a little recently, so much so that a friend and I had a rather interesting discussion about it the other day.
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Tags: Alan Wake, Avatars, Grand Theft Auto IV, Halo Wars, Microsoft, Nintendo Wii, RRoD
Posted in Rants | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Surely you’ve all seen a Nintendo Wii advert or two? Especially in the run up to Christmas, I’ve noticed 360 and Wii adverts have become particularly prolific on TV. The Xbox 360 adverts irritate the hell out of me, sure, but the Wii adverts take the crown for annoyance by a long shot.
All Wii adverts share the same principles; an overly zealous family gathered around a 50″ plasma, with shiny wooden floors and beige furniture, and the father kitted out in a perfectly knitted cashmere sweater. Oh, and all sporting ludicrously bright smiles seeing as they’re the happiest they’ve ever been.
Wii Music is the king of annoying Nintendo Wii adverts. Have you seen this monstrosity? I hunted high and low for the video, but can only find the other UK advert for Wii Music, which is still bad but not even close in terms of bugging the hell out of me. It makes me hate the Wii even more, which I never knew was possible.
Tags: Advert, Nintendo Wii, Wii Music
Posted in Asides | 7 Comments »
Friday, October 10th, 2008
I know it’s unfair to condemn something before it’s even made its way to our 360s. After all, as my post regarding my hatred of sci-fi and my consequent love of Mass Effect proved, you can’t judge a book by its cover. But what you can do is develop initial impressions then rant about them on your blog!
Everywhere I look at the moment, various updated screenshots of the New Xbox Experience are being published onto the internets, yet friends of mine and readers of this blog have been fairly quiet on what their initial impressions on it are. From the moment this new-look and dramatic overhaul of the dashboard was revealed at E3 this year, I’ve been anti-NXE, mainly spouting much abuse towards the ridiculous Avatars we have to adopt.
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Tags: Avatars, GamerPicture, Microsoft, New Xbox Experience, Nintendo Wii, NXE, Playstation 3, Theme, Viva Pinata
Posted in Rants | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I’ve always been under the impression that the Xbox brand is of a pretty solid stature in the gaming world, particularly down to the continuous success the 360 is achieving. Even though I wasn’t much of a gamer prior to this generation, I know the GameCube-PlayStation2-Xbox era saw the PlayStation 2 firmly stand as the King of console gaming, with both the GameCube and Xbox under performing sales-wise in comparison.
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Tags: GameCube, Microsoft, Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Sony, Xbox, Xbox 360
Posted in General Gaming | 8 Comments »
I don’t have anything derogatory to say about Alan Wake. My advice to you? Spend a night in Bright Falls and soak up the eerie atmosphere. Alan Wake excels at thrilling you psychologically. Which is why it’s called a psychological thriller, I guess…
