.... or women....

I very much like the Wii and I readily admit that I am less than the casual gamer. Not because I don't like playing games, but because I don't find entertainment in shooting Germans or aliens for that matter. I do like the old skool games like shooting saucers... lol

I am getting to the point where I just despise microsoft. I have an xbox. I realize that in the serious gamers world the $$ I paid for the xbox 3 years ago is mere pennies, but to me it was a good chunk of money. The fact that I can't get any new games that would be compatible with my 'old' xbox is ridiculous. At the same time, there aren't any 'new' games I am remotely interested in (except for guitar heroes III). It pisses me off that I would have to buy a 360 to be able to play guitar heros III. At least sony offers an option to the PS2 world and allows for guitar heros III to be released for PS2!!! Fantastic. At least somebody is considerate.

Back to the Wii. *I* like my Wii. I like the interactive games (and I think there is a huge market for interactive games - I know many people - me included - that are not at all into video games, but love some of the wii games. Call us casual gamers, but that is only because there is such an extremely limited number of games that aren't 'shooting aliens or germans' games) and I LOVE guitar heros.

Anyway, the mere fact that msft doesn't make any retro-fitting xbox games makes me not wanting to support that sort of mentality. I appreciate the fact that Sony comes out with a guitar hero III version that is compatible with PS2. It's considerate. Of course it makes perfect business sense. Msft doesn't have too much of a business sense anyway.....

As for the whole money/profit thing: It would just make sense to release all new games in a format that is compatible with the prior console version. After all, the money isn't in the console, but the games....

My 450 cents...