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  iLLmatic | April 25, 2008
  LOL look what you did Mark Rein. The floodgates are wide open.
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    Final Blade | April 25, 2008
    <sub>LMAO More like "The truth is out"
    
    I have nothing against the Wii personally, but compared to 360 and PS3 its definitely doesn't seem to be gaming experience rather a toy experience. I mean there is only 5 games i can think of that want from the Wii, where as i can think 70+ combined for both PS3 and 360 that i truly want.</sub>
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  black doom | April 25, 2008
  It is console that could be deemed less of toy as it has the widest audience, sort of like a TV compared to a portable DVD player.
  
  I would like to state now that that comment is not serious, it is merely an alternative comment of a similar insult method to the other consoles as is this is to the Wii. I believe neither that statement nor the one made in the article are the case.
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  bbb7002004 | April 25, 2008
  Another case of a quote blown way out of proportion by the Internet. However, I do feel that a response is in order for the comment in general.
  
  Way to lump the entire Wii library of games into only Wii Sports, there, Zeschuk.
  
  By the definition he is using, that gaming is purely story driven, the vast majority of games in the 16 bit era and before are not "gaming," anything in the sports, fighting, and racing genres is not "gaming", and almost every multiplayer game in existence is not "gaming". Not every game can, or should for that matter, be a story heavy RPG or adventure like Mass Effect.
  
  I guess since Xbox360 is most renown for its online multiplayer games like Halo, Gears of War, Rock Band, Madden, etc. it isn't gaming either. Warhawk, Resistance, Grand Tourismo, nope, looks like PS3's out as well.
  
  I guess we should start calling them toys as well, or perhaps "murder simulators" as good old Jack Thompson suggests.
  
  And Final Blade, your personal preferences for gaming has little to do with anything. Personally, there is only a single game I "want" for 360 and PS3 combined, yet many games for Wii I can't wait to buy. Its all a matter of personal preference.
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    Final Blade | April 25, 2008
    _{1 game combined? Is that even possible, last time i checked there isn't a half of a game.}
    
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  bbb7002004 | April 25, 2008
  It is the game systems, or more specifically, their libraries I am commenting on as combined, of course.
  
  Two thumbs down in an hour? That must be a record, especially since I really didn't say anything all that inflammatory. I'm just using the 360 and PS3 as examples of how ill informed the notion that a storyline in a video game is "true gaming".
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  Capn Droid | April 25, 2008
  lolfail.
  
  Not all video games have to be hardcore FPSs or RPGs. Which is why Nintendo is here: to fill that gap with cartoony games with less violence. It's still gaming. I don't see how the Nintendo Wii "isn't" a video game.
  
  Imagine this: say I posted something that said "Playstation 3 is not a video game, because it has such a vast variety of multimedia options, and it costs so bloody much. It's basically your multipurpose new and improved DVD set. Not much of a video game." I'd get shot down with flames from many. Yet, my statement makes just as much sense as Nintendo Wii being more of a toy than a video game.
  
  Besides, isn't a game something to occupy time in an amusing way? And isn't a toy a tool used to play games with? Ahem.
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    iLLmatic | April 26, 2008
    The PlayStation 3 isn't a game, its a console.
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      Capn Droid | May 07, 2008
      Thanks, Captain Obvious, but I think people know what I mean.
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  BANDITO ATTACK | April 26, 2008
  lol theyre just now realizing this shit
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  Sonic Flash | April 26, 2008
  Nintendo is a large part of what defined "gaming" in the first place, and I would argue that Nintendo hasn't changed in its values.
  
  I don't even see how they can think the Wii is so fundamentally different in terms of gaming. You're playing games with a controller on a screen. The games have characters, storylines, graphics, sound, and various features. How is that not gaming. Are they so blinded by flashiness that the Wii isn't a true gaming console unless it displays in HD or stores movies and music?
  
  On the contrary; I would argue that the Wii is the ONLY gaming console of the three.
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    iLLmatic | April 26, 2008
    Care to explain your last sentence?
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      Sonic Flash | April 27, 2008
      I would argue that the PS3 and 360 is more multimedia consoles, encompassing gaming, and various other movie and music components, and that the Wii is ONLY a gaming console.
      
      Therefore while all 3 can play games, the Wii is the only one that ONLY does gaming, and can be classified as a pure/only gaming system.
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        iLLmatic | April 27, 2008
        You see what you just did there?
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    Final Blade | April 27, 2008
    _{LMAO Sonic seriously that statement is very fanboyish, no offense.
    Are you basing this on the Whole Wiimote thing?}
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      Sonic Flash | April 27, 2008
      What "whole wiimote thing"?
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        Final Blade | April 28, 2008
        _{I was referring to the Wii mote technology.}
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  Jaw Knee | April 27, 2008
  I think that the Bioware President can take his lopsided, biased opinions and stuff it up his big, fat, egotistical asshole.
  
  Sonic's statement wasn't "fanboyish". It just described the truth of how different the Wii is from the other systems. The Wii is a true gaming system that offers gaming exclusively and didn't turn into a multimedia console, like Flash said. Nintendo is doing its own thing and not following the crowd. So why criticize it because of how its used?