While I admit Nintendo do need to release more of their 'core' games rather than 'casual' games, I do think its the XBox fanboys who are the ones who feel the need to always defend their machine.

I've owned a 360 for a few years now and like the original machine, its been a complete waste of money. The games are all the same. They play the same, some look the same (Halo) and you get ones that don't seem finished (GTA, GoW games).

Someone said the Wii remote doesn't suit all game types. This is true and its same for the 360's so called 'great' pad. It doesn't suit fighting games or any game that needs the player to use the dpad to choose weapons etc.

If Nintendo are so wrong with what they've done, why are the others falling over themselves to recreate the same thing? Natal is going to be a joke because it won't live up to the hype. I mean, look at the man in charge of its gaming decisions: Peter Molyneux. A man who can never justify the hype in his games!

Having better graphics doesn't mean innovation. Its just an evolutionary phase and having most games use the Unreal Engine doesn't show me innovation. They all look the same.

The XBox is hype over substance. M$uck are a 'me too' company. They release unfinished product. They try and sell their machine as something its not. All the stuff it can do now is pointless anyway. Its even crap as a DVD player since it can't output DTS sound. The machine was rushed out and even now its a pathetic, cheap piece of plastic.

M$ fanboys love to bash the rivals, particularly the Wii. Its like they can't handle people liking other stuff or new stuff. Sure, you keep playing the same games year upon year and tell yourself you're playing something new.

Sooner or later, the 360's going to fall into last place now with Sony getting its act together. The Wii may be a system full of crap party games but the 360 is a system with crap, dull exclusives that have been done to death and don't dare try anything new. What joy it is to film yourself in Halo 3. Not a fun gimmick though, is it? "Call of Duty is the best!". God to see you people can broaden your horizons...

Which leads me to how the typical M$ fanboy thinks they have the best games. In terms of exclusives, you clearly don't. Halo is not groundbreaking anymore - never was but that's how I can say this when M$ fanboys say motion sensing was done before. Halo had been done before too just not on console. Gears of War is in no way an amazing game either. Its gimmick is - at first - good graphics. After that it transpires into the borken, shoddy, typical shooter it is. This is from a company called 'Epic' too.
Then all you people say Nintendo people only buy certain games and how Nintendo only release certain games like Mario. Go look at what the M$ owner buys the most: the top selling games are Halo, GoW games and GTA, then CoD games. Take out GTA and all the games are the same genre type. Heck, even GTA involves lots of shooting. You people go on about choice yet all you buy is the same stuff. And like M$ themselves, you love to gloat about it but there's not much to gloat about.
As for the game releases, well, look at what you get: the same games every year. It CoD again or its L4D again. Every two years its Halo or GoW, whereas as the last main Mario game before 'Galaxy' was in 2002. That's five years. The last (home console) Mario Kart before the Wii game was also five years. Blah blah blah...

I'll laugh if Live does go up in price. Fanboys love to go on about how good it is but why should I pay to meet a bunch of snotty pratts with no life who go on about how big their GS are yet this doesn't translate to being how good you are at a game (a fact that shows when you kick their arses).

I wouldn't normally post such a rant on here but morons who I talk about like that Storm guy really need to see past your own dillusional world, just like M$ have to as well. This isn't a company that's pushed gaming further in any way. They just look to others and then copy and paste. Its going to take more than just creating a centralised online system.

Nintendo do need to get their head out of their arse with their own games and so do third parties, though I can never see this happening with the latter. They only have themselves to blame with crap game sales, but at least Capcom are showing what can be done with some of the games they've released and there's some good stuff coming from other developers coming next year.

In the end its Nintendo and Sony who have the more exciting line ups forthcoming whereas as M$ are going to be relying on their biggest gimmick of all, I'll have traded my 360 in for a PS3 long before then...

Personally, i want epic experiences, cutting edge, experiences that push the boundaries of the medium in both graphics, sound, gameplay and narrative.

I'm not getting that from the Wii, no gamer is and until Nintendo sort it out, then the Wii will just be a puddle of mud in my books.

Nintendo not dominating no more are you sure?. were they not just voted company of the 2009 by business week, beating google, apple, sony etc...

Just was looking at the stats on wiki
Wii Worldwide: 56.14 million as of September 30, 2009.
Xbox 360 Worldwide: 34 million as of October, 2009.
Playstation 3 Worldwide: 27 million as of September 30, 2009

Nintendo DS Worldwide: 113.48 million, including DS Lite and DSi units as of September 30, 2009.

Sony psp Worldwide: 51.99 million as of September 2009.

as much i love most quality third party games, my fondest memories were playing Nintendo games i.e. super mario world, super metroid, zelda link to the past and bizllion rounds of mario kart battle mode...those were the days

The Wii is the only system this gen i haven't bought. Too many PS2 ports, family games, party games and general shovelware on the system for me to even care anymore.