Old Wii Wii Go Bye Bye… And That’s Too bad

So in case you haven’t heard, Nintendo is planning on shutting down production of the original Wii soon, thus bringing the chapter of their all-time best selling console to a close.

No word as to whether this’ll affect online services like Virtual Console or that sort of thing… not much of a surprise, really. The console is pretty much retired at this point and the Wii U can pretty much do what the Wii could and more, so really, you knew it was going to happen eventually, if it hadn’t already.

The thing is… Nintendo sucks at this kind of thing. You have the best-selling console of the current generation and you toss it under the bus to focus on your new console that isn’t up to par in terms of numbers or content or whatever. Why not support the thing for another year or so before axing it?

I’m not saying producing a shit ton of games, but a handful, you know? Go for compilations or something. That kind of stuff will always sell for good prices. The PS2 has a massive library of games and pretty much lasted more than a decade in service… best-selling console of all time. Indisputable. That’s factual. PS2 is the best-selling console and it was supported for a good long time even got games years into the current generation.

It is the modern-day Atari 2600, just in terms of the longevity because the 2600 also had a long life span, from 1977 to 1989-1990 when the era of Nintendo and Sega was in full swing. And Nintendo has their best-selling console in the Wii… and they drop it. I understand that it’s a underpowered machine; you’d rather go for the HD console, but your HD console not is doing the numbers you’d hoped for. I don’t know… yeah…

Not quite sure where I was going with that, but in any case, there you go.

New Tag-Team Champions…

I may not like the booking of the overall storyline with Big Show and Daniel Bryan and both Triple and Nipple H, but I can’t complain about the main event last night. Holy crap, was that a fantastic piece of tag-team wrestling and a perfect way to end what was otherwise a nothing RAW. Nothing about the show made me excited or caught my interest except for the main event. Tons of fun, told a great story, and it kept the crowd going. Kudos to be had by all.

There is one aspect of that whole “Authority” and “Best For Business” stuff that I can appreciate and that’s the way Randy Orton has been going full-on creeper heel. I always felt that was the best role for him and I’m glad to see they’re booking him that way.

Power Rangers Megaforce (half of it) Hit My Netflix

Just noticed that Megaforce (the current Power Rangers season, not the 1980s cheeseball sci-fi flick) was popped onto Netflix up here. Have yet to sit down and watch, but did a quick sample of the first episode… this looks fun. Make of that what you will.

In all honesty, I wouldn’t mind doing a write-up on my thoughts on Megaforce… or maybe add it to the DTM-Cast… or maybe something else entirely… I don’t know yet… We’ll see…

RAW (Oct. 7th, 2013) – Wait A Minute…

So Big Show is “fired” because he did what he was told… but isn’t his contract iron-clad, which means they can’t fire him? Or did someone find a strong enough blowtorch to cut through iron? I am confused… and quite honestly, I don’t care anymore.

But hey, John Cena is coming back to wrestle Del Rio for the World Title, so things aren’t so bad…

I guess I should pull out one of my stock images to sum up last night’s Monday Nitro…

So What's The Deal With The Irate Gamer Game?

I’ve been trying to find information on that thing, but it’s a bit difficult at the moment.

The Irate Gamer website or blog, as it is now, only had a couple previews and has seemingly forgotten about the game because nothing else was mentioned. No promo, no announcement that it’s available, no BUY HERE link… nothing. It seems like the guy played the game and wasn’t pleased with the game that bared his name or something… I don’t know. Why wouldn’t you push your product? Just to show that you give a shit about the product? Because it seems like this was just slapped together on a whim and released to the masses.

Looking at the screenshots, I’m not gonna lie; it looks like shit. It looks like somebody fired up a copy of Multimedia Fusion for the first time in their lives and put together a bunch of random crap and voila, new game. I don’t know if that’s the case because I’m not able to try it, but it seems like nobody is going to take the plunge either because I have not seen one writeup or proper review on the thing.

The only place that I’ve seen anything close to a full review is on that Irate Gamer Sucks blog, but I found anything out of that site to be a bit skewed and somewhat biased, given the title of the blog. And I know people are going to defend that site and say it’s supposed to be objective look at… but the title says it all. It’s anything but objective. And trying to post any semblance of positive or going against their favorites will result is some rather nasty responses… and I agree trying to find something positive about Bores’ output is a bit difficult, to put it mildly.

But it is possible to enjoy what he does… I mean, I watch some of his stuff, I enjoy it for the most part… even if it’s for reasons totally contrarian to his intentions. I don’t think his stuff is good, I enjoy because sometimes it’s fun to watch someone act like a complete fucking moron when playing these games and it’s something I find he does rather well, whether it’s intentional or not. So… bit of a backhanded compliment, I suppose…