PCM: Nintendo Wii Best Ever, PS3 Execrable
Published by Robert Staehlin June 21st, 2007 in Gaming, Nintendo, Wii.
Hyperbole, thy name is PC Magazine. According to a new column penned by Lance Ulanoff, “Wii is the best product ever!” PS3, on the other hand, is deemed as “execrable”.
“Most…hyperbole…ever!” the Comic Book Guy in The Simpsons might say.
From the article:
The Wii is penetrating our culture, but few people are talking about the PS3. Look at all the stories about the Wii injuries, which seem to have done nothing to hurt the console’s appeal. And the game system is even becoming synonymous with “easy.” I’m tempted to call the Wii’s public reception almost “Apple iPod-like.” We all know Apple’s success in launching new brands and product lines. I’d put Nintendo up there, too. Just look at its track record: GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite.
Heady stuff, but you have to admit the Nintendo Wii is the best product ever, seriously.
Call us crazy, but we think it’s way too early for these sorts of proclamations. It seems that the only reason writers make such grandiose assessments is so that other websites will cover it. And yet here we are, falling right into the trap. Oh well.
Check it out Ulanoff’s reasoning as to why Wii rules and PS3 drools here.
Well I personally agree with Lance on this one. I just bought a Wii this last Sunday. I didn’t wait this long to buy one because I didn’t have the money, or I wasn’t interested, it’s because it was the first time any were in stock anywhere in town without having to stand in line from midnight ’till 5:00 am. Over the last week I’ve had more fun with the Wii than I’ve had with any system since I first bought the original NES. And it’s ironic if you think about that, because the first time most people played Super Mario Brothers for the first time, when they wanted Mario to jump what did they do? They wildly moved the controller up in the air as if that would make him jump further, or not fall down the holes.
My wife also has fallen in love with it. That doesn’t sound like much of a statement if I didn’t tell you that when I brought it home from Toys R Us I thought she was going to kill me. By the second night she was pulling the coffee table out of the way to play tennis and saying “I’m turning pro by the end of the night!!” My wife isn’t a gamer. She’s never cared about games. I’m what you might call a pretty hard core gamer. We’ve never played games together.