Guitar Hero 3 and Manhunt 2: Give the Nintendo Wii a boost or not?
October 28, 2007 By Daniel
Filed under Gaming, Nintendo Wii
We spoke about the apparent lack of software sales on the Nintendo Wii earlier today and following on from that, many Nintendo Wii owners know and are looking forward to buying Guitar Hero 3 and Manhunt 2.
The question is: will these two major titles make the weak Nintendo Wii software sales increase dramatically.
If you’re a wii owner, will you be buying Guitar Hero 3 or Manhunt 2?
For me Guitar Hero 3 looks a great buy and one which would be great with some friends over (just what the Wii was built for).
So how much of an impact do you think Guitar Hero 3 and Manhunt 2 will have on the Wii?
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no,
the wii is living off of people that don’t play anything but Wii Sports. Nintendo dropped the ball on the wii by not offering robust online support and games for the hard core gamer. instead taking the wii down the same path as the DS, kiddy land.
Can someone please stop the emotional 360 fanboys from claiming that the Wii has a low attachment rate? It doesn’t take much effort to go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Wii and find that the Wii has sold 65.81 million Wii games and 7.8 million virtual console games. It doesn’t take much extra effort either to click on the foot note and go to page 22 of http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2007/071025e.pdf to find the Wii attachment rate in the Americas is 6.13 including Wii Sports and, for the 360 fanboys, 5.13 without Wii Sports. The Wii attachment rate is better than the 360 attachment rate in the same period. Yes, those figures are for software SALES UNITS, which does not include virtual console games. In fact, the PDF from Nintendo doesn’t even have the word “virtual.”
The Wii is a smash success. Please come out of lala land.
I have a wii, and I can’t find any DECENT games. They are mostly sloppy ps2 ports, or worse.
I don’t want to play 20 year old 2d games on it. There is no good online support, and I don’t see anything coming that looks that good, to me.
I have the wii and 360, honestly i love both, don’t see the whole point of the flaming goin on… anyways, wii’s fun, has some good games (madden 07’s amazing, mp3, zelda, trauma center), but i’m definitely waiting for 3rd party support to step up, i agree most are sloppy ports, but there’s some good looks on the horizon… but yea, i’m def waiting for online and third parties to step up… biggest disappointment would have to be lack of a headset, other than that, it’s amazing
Very well said Joe. Brad I’d be the first to admit that this has been one brutal year for us Wii owners, but the good games are right around the corner. Check out this small sample list out.
10/29/07 Battalion Wars 2
10/31/07 Manhunt 2
11/13/07 Resident Evil Umbrella
11/13/07 Smackdown 08
11/13/07 Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
And that doesn’t even touch on Mario Galaxy, Mario Olympics, Nights and Fire Emblem; Radiant Dawn. Just to name a few.
*SHAMELESS PLUG FOR MY WII SITE! Get the complete list of games coming out at myspace.com/wiifanalliance and all the news and trailers al at one site.
Mike
P.S.
You will NOT want to miss the Rygar exclusive Wii title when it drops in early spring…..Peace!
“I have a wii, and I can’t find any DECENT games. They are mostly sloppy ps2 ports, or worse.”
That’s quite a stretch. Not every game currently out on the Wii is fantastic by any means, but there are certainly some decent ones (Heatseeker, Alien Syndrome, etc.) Then you have the great ones like Rayman Raving Rabbids and Metroid Prime 3.
“I don’t want to play 20 year old 2d games on it.”
Well, some people do. There are some gamers who, believe it or not, never got to experience the original Super Mario Bros. or the Donkey Kong Country series. Then there are people have broken/misplaced cartridges and want their favorite games in digital form. Finally, we can get imported games (Sin and Punishment, Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Worlds, etc.) that people can get a taste of. There’s nothing wrong with the classics, and there’ll even be some all-new content later on in the Wii Ware section.
“There is no good online support, and I don’t see anything coming that looks that good, to me.”
I agree that the Wii’s online is lackluster compared to that of the 360, but though it lacks the features it certainly makes up for it with some of the best multiplayer franchises of all time (Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Kart, etc.) Melee lasted a hell of a long time, and I expect Brawl to do even more for players since it’s online. I can’t quite say the same thing for Gears of War (good game, but to me it got a bit boring after playing a dozen matches in a row with little variation compared to Smash Bros.)
I love MY WII no matter what!!!!
Would someone PLEASE get that horrendous Guitar Hero III photoshop off this page? It’s an insult to the makers of guitar hero and the millions of people who know what the cover actually looks like.
If anyone cares, when I went to go pick up Guitar Hero III for the Wii, everywhere was sold out, but still had some (3-5) XBOX360 and like 40+ PS2/PS3 bundles left.
what about super mario galxy that game is going to be the shit
If you want to talk about poor software sales, it would be a sin not to mention the PS3.
It’s humorous to find that there are emotional little fanboys post here and bash the Wii because they’re so whiny and upset the Wii outsold they’re console that they religiously worship. Thanks for giving me a good laugh, guys.
*ahem*
http://www.nexgenwars.com
i think the public has spoken
I have a 360, its not that great and was rushed to the market. It sounds like a hover just sucked up wet socks. M$ made it really quickly just to get early market share and its paid off so far cuz its got great games. The wii, i think has amazing games too and a great line up for christmas. People are just buying it for wii sports because third party support has been really bad. However it is starting to change, with the likes of RE:UC, medal of honour, nights, trauma centre, WWE, tiger woods 08, fifa 08, manhunt 2, guitar hero 3 and crazy square enix stuff. The reason why the wii has had such bad third party support is because everyone underestimated the potential of the system. That is why Nintendo are the only ones selling wii software.
after scoring MH3 and SPORE….i would have thought these third party support stuff would be over…..i mean the 2008 lineup for wii is far more exciting than the ps3 and the 360.
This is an old topic that has no foundation anymore
Not trying to flame here, but how do you figure the 2008 lineup is exciting? You have Smash Bros and Mario Galaxy. Other than that, what is there that is really shaping up to be great? Guitar Hero 3 has no download support, smash has no voice chat, just pre-defined text messages. manhunt was censored, so it has been dramatically altered.
Believe me, I wanted to keep my Wii, but the amount of good, quality, games is very low. Too much shovel-ware from 3rd parties just trying to put something on the platform. UBI is the biggest offender, second only to EA.
I hope it gets better, but I don’t see that in the release schedules I have been viewing.
Brad:
When i went to Gamestop Sunday, the attach rate for GH3 was greater than or equal to the 360.
And 2008? We haven’t yet seen the best for 2008, and you didn’t even mention Mario Kart Wii which most fans are looking forward to.
The amount of good quality games was too low?
Super Smash Bros?
Galaxy?
GH3? (which is awesome with the wii mote!)
Battalion Wars 2?
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2?
I could go on, but YOU DON’T CARE.
You are just an anti-Wii Vidiot. You ignore the evidence that the wii is going to start picking up stellar third party support, and will continue to do so after third parties realize that shovelware is not going to fly. Look at what Capcom said about their Okami port on IGN.
Ouch!
I do care, but most of the games you list are not available yet. Only GH3.
I am just stating a simple fact, not many good games are coming from 3rd party developers. Only Nintendo makes good games for Wii, and they cannot produce enough to keep the non casual gamer happy for long.
you fail to notice that I have not once mentioned the Wii’s power or graphics capability. That is because I don’t really care as long as the games are good and have a lot of replay value. Without a good online component, there is little replay value in any game on any platform.
Nintendo is far behind the competition in this area, AGAIN, and will have to face the music, AGAIN, in the near future.
I mean, the Wii has blue tooth, you’d think a blue tooth headset would be a no-brainer, but do we have that? No. Will it happen, probably not.
Apparently, Manhunt 2 has not been dramtically altered, as stated by many game previews that had a chance to play both versions. Also, the extent to which they were censored was minimal for the most part… I for one cannot wait to get my hands on MH2, GH3, Spore, RE:UC, and Smash Bros… To be honest, I’ve never waitied for games on any console, like I have the Wii.
i think that is not the real guitar hero box