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1st game in the series is better overall. Blitz is the worst entry in the series. Single player is ok, multiplayer is terrible bar a few party games.

I refer to the premier franchises other than the ones Nintendo feature on their consoles have. Mainly GTA and Gran Turismo that sell MANY units as per below. If Nintendo Wii gets GTA and/or a realistic racing sim, they'll be pretty well covered. Top 20 of Console Games of All time The 20 best selling console games, originally not bundled. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES - 18 million)[32] Super Mario Land (Game Boy - 14 million)[32] Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2 - 13 million)[81] Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 - 12 million)(As of 2005)[83] Super Mario 64 (N64 - 11 million)[32] Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2 - 11 million)[73] Grand Theft Auto III (PS2 - 11 million)[81] Gran Turismo (PS1 - 10.5 million)[73] Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES - 10 million)[32] Gran Turismo 2 (PS1 - 9.34 million)[73] Final Fantasy VII (PS1 - 8.6 million)[74] Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS - 8.51 million)[62] Donkey Kong Country (SNES - 8.30 million)[36] Mario Kart 64 (N64 - 2.06 million in Japan only,[37] 6.23 million in US only,[37] approximately 8.29 million) Pokémon Yellow (Game Boy - 3.16 million in Japan,[34] 5.10 million in US,[40] approximately 8.26 million) GoldenEye 007 (N64 - 8 million)[38] Super Mario Kart (SNES - 8 million)[32] Halo 2 (Xbox - 8 million)[97] Tomb Raider II (PS1 - 8 million)[32] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64 - 7.6 million)[33] Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_games

If they were to expand only one feautre, I'd like it to be Miis, a lot more options are desired by many people. I'd like to see adjustable breast and hip sizes for females and heaps more facial hair, scars and adjustable muscle tone for males. More hair styles, eyes, nose, mouth and definitely clothing and more fine tuning with height and weight. I want to be able to create a wide range of people, from amazon women being extremely tall to short stocky gay men which also brings up the point i'd like to choose sexual orientation as well. Expansion of Mii parade so it almost becomes like the sims, you can build actual houses, mingle with other miis and surroundings, engage in romance etc.

Everything in moderation including cheese unless you're some crazed vegan or you simply don't like it like the creator of this thread [Things I am yet to consume in full servings and never will to avoid having a reliance for these things are alcohol [damaged liver no thanks], coffee [again don't want a reliance to having to have it to "wake up"], and cigarettes [free lung cancer isn't for me]. Balance is the key to everything in life.

Fine with me.

In due course. PAYRISE TO N-EUROPE STAFF IF COMPLETED WITHIN THE NEXT 10 SECONDS.

I just post my opinions. No alterior motive to piss people off. I don't recall a time where i've actually "directly sledged" anyone, but a particular thing/situation instead.

Its top selling for the fact it contains a free compilation of E3 reject games alongside an overpriced peripheral. Not the fact its a legitimately great game. How many of those experimentation games are from established franchises outside of Nintendo? Not many. The Console market is different. Its fine to have these games, but not in unison. They need to have OFFICIAL SERIES entries of premier established franchises other than Nintendos own franchises to cater for all people, to which currently they are not doing.

Initially yes, but I got a rather poor reception from my official retirement announcement, so I decided to "overturn it" and grace myself upon this forum once again for everyones enjoyment.

Their not real apples are they? What a waste of produce, just like that beyond logic tomato throwing festival.

I'm glad third party characters are in Super Smash Bros Brawl and i'd like to see more. Currently BARE minimum I expect the game to feature Sonic and Megaman as well as Snake, but I wouldn't mind having 50 characters in the game, 10 of them being from third party franchises.

How do you think the gaming public would react to a merged Mario and Sonic game where they both are in the same game working together to fight a greater evil than whats been featured in their respective games combined?

But that goes back to what I was saying before. Nintendo have the opportunity to influence their decision and gain more support for their home console. Their not relishing that opportunity and instead just leaving developers to release limited inferior spin offs that won't draw the attention of fans of the official series. Their just not optimising their chances of success. The problem is, sales just aren't going to be there. Not enough people will buy these experimentation games and will instead buy greater quantities of the popular multiplatform games and OFFICIAL series games. Third parties will AUTOMATICALLY assume that these games despite not being part of the official series will sell in excellent quantities just because it bears the name of their popular franchise. But gamers prefer to buy official installments of games in premier franchise series not spin offs. Their just not being aggressive enough Nintendo. ON A SIDE NOTE: Gotta attend to something all day, will be back within 24 hours or so to continue this discussion.

It may be so but its wasted on a platform that doesn't need that game. It can do fine without it, Wii needs that sort of game. They should direct attention to their home console to avoid failing again.

Nah it will be good actually, Wii needs more variety from OTHER publishers. But this will probably not perform as well as Sonic The Hedgehog sales wise despite it being a terrible game which is a real shame. Societies standards have lowered in general, they lap up inferior games, music and movies and this current gen Sonic battle will be no different. A ratio of 3 to 1 i'm predicting in favor of Sonic The Hedgehog sales wise that is, not review score wise.

Nintendo have been struggling in the console market for the past decade, these games appearing on DS and 360 will do very little to mend the wounds of being slashed by Playstation 2. The only benefit these games coming out on Xbox360 are for Nintendo is that it minimises PS3 sales. Its still not coming out on Wii though which is doing Nintendo a disservice and even if we do see these games, they'll be cheap inferior knock offs like Dragon Quest Swords and another Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. They won't be taken anywhere near as seriously as they aren't OFFICIAL SERIES games. They release games on DS as a safeguard where they know sales are strong. Wiis an unproven format that carries on the barriers GameCube established. They wouldn't dare release their OFFICIAL entries to their premier franchises, not unless Nintendo start flashing some of their fortune around and literally bribe these companies to gain support and thus really giving their competition a run for their money.

I expect it will be a solid 6/10 game that will actually be quite entertaining. Automatically will be one of the best 3D sonic games of all time.

It certainly doesn't, but if Nintendo wants Wii to be ultra successful and pick up the pieces of their shattered reputation that Nintendo GameCube greatly contributed to, they need some of these popular franchises or knock off substitute like games that fall within the same genres that Nintendo have droughts of for a number of years like RPGs such as Final Fantasy and REAL racing sims such as Gran Turismo, to have that balance of games that a Nintendo console hasn't had since Super Nintendo and satisfy gamers across the board. All i'm saying is that it wouldn't hurt Nintendo for games like GTA and Metal Gear Solid to compliment their existing line up of franchises. It would make them truly unstoppable and would give people really no reason to purchase a PS2/PS3. On a side note, i'd would never touch Fifa even if it had an average ratio of 99.9%, not exclusive, no purchase. I do seek second opinions for a lot of things including movies and books as well just as confirmation that I should invest my time and money into something, but not all the time though.

I ain't particularly good at Wii Sports but thats courtesy of bad controls in some of the games, boxing golf and tennis all having flawed controls. Even baseball i've only hit about 10 home runs. Whats the trick to consiistently getting home runs with every type of ball pitched and is there any way to hit the splitter for a home run?

Murali will surpass Warne easily within a year or two with test wickets and officially become superior to him in every bowling statistic. Ricky Ponting is wasting opportunities with poor form in the past 5 innings of the ashes and isn't relishing on the opportunity of trying to beat Bryan Laras total run score record. No other player is in that sort of territory yet like everyone else, he'll just play second rate, waste opportunities and probably won't get another test century for the rest of his career. When will Lara retire already?

Its all well and good they're being ported onto Xbox, but what good is that to Nintendo other than to minimise Playstation sales? They need these actual sorts of games on Wii to capture that segment of the market they've been ignoring and its quite large. Nintendo has great IPs and I've grown up with them, but you look at all time sales figures for games, ain't many Nintendo games there anymore. The only real big sellers beyond 10 million units are Super Mario Bros games and Pokemon games. All other games such as GTA and Gran Turismo have sold over 10 million units, unlike all of Nintendos other franchises other than the two I mentioned before which are two of gamings most successful franchises [Mario & Pokemon that is]. GONE to rest, i'll return within 24 hours.

Deletion time?

There are so many, but basically its the games that attracts the age group of gamers that the bulk of PS2 gamers are. Premier franchises such as Grand Theft Auto, Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy. Franchises that attract a lot of gamers. These sorts of games are sorely lacking on Nintendo systems but all they'd need to do is create similar games to fill the void and satisfy the people demanding these sorts of games. These aren't all time great games but they shift units and Nintendo basically needs to adapt to the tastes of the modern era to maximise Wiis success.

Truly excellent original games as in games 100% exclusive to the system, no ports and is not based on an existing franchise or a franchise which has had minimal sequels. I can think of a few. Pikmin games were good original games but not outstanding. Luigis Mansion was original but more of a tech demo, GCs equivalent of Wii Sports, games like Doshin the Giant and Animal Crossing while they were original, they were ports of N64 and N64DD. The only games on GC that were really good and original with either a franchise with minimal sequels and a drastic change or a totally original game is Metroid Prime, the best game of last generation as validated via its 3rd all time highest average ratio of 96.4% and Eternal Darkness: Sanitys Requiem with its originality and as i've stated, one of the only mature titles to be released on a Nintendo console in the past 10 years up until recently.

I also liked the console personally, despite the lack of truly excellent original games. I was merely referring to the success of the console on a universal scale. One hundred million console versus twenty million, thats a downright failure, but they did successfully sell just enough units to make a reasonable profit. Nintendo should aim for Wii at the VERY LEAST to be three times as successful as GameCube aiming for 60 million consoles to be sold BARE MINIMUM, although i'd like to see them sell 120,000,000 consoles plus.