Waaah! There's no Wii games! I'm sick and tired of Nintendo releasing stupid games on the Virtual Console! I can't even find a Wii in the stores! Nintendo's stupid! If Sony did this, they'd be getting ripped up one side and down the other! Stupid fanboys!
Ahh, the sound of spoiled gamers. Wasn't it only two years ago that everyone was laughing at Nintendo's new controller? "The heck?! A TV controller? Nintendo's insane... Again... It's going to be another GameCube. Nintendo's failed." (Which, I might add, that since Nintendo always makes money on consoles, the GameCube was still a very successful console, if not the most successful as far as profits go. Who cares if you've sold 80 bazillion PS2s if you're losing money on half of them?)
Wasn't it only last year that Nintendo finally rolled back the curtains on everything you ever wanted to know about the Wii and it was the single most popular E3 booth in history? Everyone wanted one, and everyone (mostly) had nothing but praise for it. While Sony was doing everything wrong, Nintendo was doing everything right and everyone was noticing!... Except the game developers and publishers. Remember this!
Wii release day! Lines everywhere... No Wii left anywhere. If you found one, you'd get swarmed by people wanting to buy it for 5 times the retail price. PS3 was the hottest gift for Christmas? Haha, my furry tail it was... After Christmas, PS3s became quite the sight at stores after all the eBay'ers returned their PS3s since they couldn't sell them for extortionate prices. Wii? Still rare... Beyond rare, even. It was impossible to find.
Now, after the initial release, Wiis are STILL impossible to find, but the spoiled gamers are starting to get upset again. "Where's all the cool games we were promised?! We can only play Wii Bowling so many times!! You promised us online gameplay, too!! Where are all the online games?! You lied to us!! There's nothing to do!! I wasted my money!!"
Yes... Maybe you did. If you feel that way, try selling your console on eBay! I'm sure there'll be someone out there who's a bit smarter and less of a brat who'll adore owning one. You see, humanity is impatient. They want everything NOW NOW NOW. Are you still looking for a Wii? Can't find one? Uh-oh, Nintendo MUST be holding back production and making the thing scarce, because that's EXACTLY the thing Nintendo's known for! Because it couldn't be that there's a genuine insatiable desire for something NEW in the gaming industry, and it couldn't be that you're just having a bit of bad luck. No, it's gotta be Nintendo. I keep reading about people who say they're done hunting for Wiis, and they don't want to be waiting in any lines like release day.
Well, ya' must not be wanting one badly enough, I guess. It's your perogative to wait, but right now, you're not going to be able to walk in to Walmart after work and hork one off the shelf... You're going to have to do some research! Learn when a shipment's coming in, how much is coming in, and when they're going on sale! It's EXACTLY like release day out there, and if you're not going to act like it, then you're not going to get one!
Second, lack of games. Every console has a post-launch lull in releases! EVERY... CONSOLE... It's like this is something totally new and unheard of and Nintendo cheated everyone! Well, to have games, you need developers... After the GameCube, developers were leaving Nintendo left and right! When the Wii was announced, they were a little cautious about signing up for a console that might be another unfriendly console for them. You'd've thought that after E3, they would have been begging Nintendo to make games, but some didn't.
Okay, any games that were started early enough to be released for launch were started early enough or rushed so they'd be a launch title! Who in their right mind is going to start making a game before launch and then MISS launch? Maybe some, but I'm betting that not many companies do that. So you have two groups of people: Launch developers, and developers who are waiting to see what happens. Nintendo still launched with the biggest library of launch titles in history, but then everyone else saw how incredibly perfect the Wii was in every aspect and then THEY jumped on to develop! The sad thing is, it takes more than 3 months to make a game! Everyone who finished their launch titles are starting new projects, and everyone who just jumped on the train are starting their projects, too... Result? Lull. For about a year. For every console! It's nothing new... Stop being stupid and blaming Nintendo for it. It's just a natural thing that happens when a new console comes out. After the launch lull, games will start pouring in again, but you have to be patient! That's what you get for being an early adopter! Isn't it fun?!
Third, no online gameplay! Whining about how everyone except the Wii has online gameplay and that Nintendo lied AGAIN to all us poor spoiled gamers about how there'd be plenty of online games. Well, we're getting there! Super Smash Brothers is going to be online, first of all. I'm not sure about any other titles, but that's all I'm ever going to need! I admit that it's kind of disappointing not to see any online games, but the online network was simply not ready at release, and now we're in the post-launch lull and there's no games AT ALL. Patience! Would you rather them have rushed the internet capability and it turn out like Sony's online network? Yeah. I don't think people would've been any more understanding than they are now. Remember! This is Nintendo! They're notorious for getting things done the RIGHT way, and they're willing to postpone releases to get it.
Fourth, no good Virtual Console games. On the contrary, I believe there's some pretty decent games on the VC! Some games I haven't even played before... Why wouldn't I buy them? Maybe you've already played them all, but nobody cares, okay? Now, I'm on the boat that they're maybe a tad bit expensive, but I'm not boycotting Nintendo over it! If I don't have the money, I won't buy anything... But if it's something like Super Mario World, or Ocarina of Time, I'm going to buy it! Nobody's forcing you to buy Virtual Console games, you know... You can go back to your precious emulators with loads of illegal ROMs, but now that there's a way to play these games legally, and on the best emulator of them all, I choose not to be illegal!
Okay! End result: Gamers are spoiled, they want everything now, and they'll blame Nintendo or Microsoft or Sony or anyone they think is responsible for making them wait so long... Boohoo!