Who wanted the Wii to launch sooner rather than later? Now put your hands down. An October launch would have been nice, but it is clear that a November launch is better. Hands-on previews and developer interviews have show that the Wii’s launch titles have a lot of potential, but could use a bit more time to refine controls, improve texture quality, and fix a few bugs. This is always crunch time for developers, but an extra month will result in better launch titles. Who can argue with better games? I’ll wait an extra month.Infendo / An independent perspective
November 19 Is Good
Who wanted the Wii to launch sooner rather than later? Now put your hands down. An October launch would have been nice, but it is clear that a November launch is better. Hands-on previews and developer interviews have show that the Wii’s launch titles have a lot of potential, but could use a bit more […]
Who wanted the Wii to launch sooner rather than later? Now put your hands down. An October launch would have been nice, but it is clear that a November launch is better. Hands-on previews and developer interviews have show that the Wii’s launch titles have a lot of potential, but could use a bit more time to refine controls, improve texture quality, and fix a few bugs. This is always crunch time for developers, but an extra month will result in better launch titles. Who can argue with better games? I’ll wait an extra month.More to discover.Keep exploring ↗
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I'm totally down with having more systems available in November rather than fewer in October. Yes.
Correct, this give them an extra month to manufacture as well. This could mean as many as 300,000 consoles at launch. This extra month could also mean the difference between some games making launch and not making launch. If this extra month adds 2-3 games to the launch lineup, that is also a good thing.
I'd rather have the Wii in October, with less games, and less polished games. That's just me though.
I would sell my soul to have one now./I'm super serial guys
I would have liked them to launch before the PS3 but that's just me. I'm fine with waiting until november.
I'm guessing this crunch month already happened because there's no way you can 'crunch' and dish out over a million copies that quickly
I hope they at least have some demo kiosks out there in October. I just really want to try playing this thing more than anything else.Fuzz, I am so totally cereal about this.
I'm glad that they went so late. Launch title polishing, more units available? Great.But it also helps me & other working stiffs whose bosses (for whatever reasons) insist on mucho advance notice when we wish to take vacations.. :PNow, since I've given my boss a two whole months' heads-up, I'll have no problem with getting that entire week off. Hooray, indeed.
I was bummed out about the launch date at first until I read the previews for Wii's games. Lets just say:I want Twilight Princess to have awesome sword combat, Madden to have great textures, Rayman to completely rock, Elebits to have better physics, Red Steel to live up to the hype, etc.
I always thought the whole craze re: early launch was kind of asinine…forgivable, but asinine.Rushed-together games? Uh, no thanks. Let the game-making elves squirrel away at it for awhile. Play your Gamecube some more…its still sweet.
I didn't raise MY hand!!From what Nintendo execs had said so far, I never expected a launch date sooner than mid-November… all this talk about an October launch was completely manufactured by the "blogosphere"!